[cheerfulgreek]

I'm having a mini Star Trek marathon. I just watched some of the original series, the Next Generation and now I'm watching Star Trek V. I just think that in the course of several years and various Star Trek series, the writers have had the opportunity to tap into some of the most exciting ideas from all fields of physics. And everyone on GC knows that I just love physics. Well, with Star Trek's writers, it's just that sometimes they get it right, and sometimes they blow it. Sometimes they just use the words that physicists use, and sometimes they incorporate the ideas associated with them. I just felt like posting this because I was watching how the word "neutronium" was used (which is basically a substance composed of neutrons). And neutron stars are naturally made up of this. I've seen episodes where the Enterprise had several close encounters with neutron stars. I was watching the episode "Evolution", the one where the Nanites were eating the ship's computers, the crew was in the act of studying a neutron star that was apparently about to erupt as it accreted material. Oh, and I love the episode "The Tholian Web". That one was really cool. That one was the one where Kirk drifts in and out of this universe. It was a spatial interphase connecting different dimensional planes, which basically make up parallel universes. There were other episodes I watched where aliens were hiding in these parallel universes. It's just that it's never ending. I love Star Trek, it's just that I really wish we really could "Go where no one has gone before".