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The world is full of wonderful things, with countless new discoveries paving the way to whole new scientific fields. A hundred years ago, fields like genetics, quantum physics and computer sciences were either almost unheard of, or simply did not exist yet. Go back a hundred years more, and more scientific disciplines we know today did not exist yet. Science Fiction writers have picked up on this, and creating a whole new scientific field has become a common method to show that this is The Future. It also helps legitimize their Applied Phlebotinum (especially if it's a Minovsky Physics-type one) by telling us that there's a whole scientific field dedicated to it, making it feel more like an ingrained part of the work's setting. May or may not be a fictional extension of an already existing Real Life discipline. Super-Trope to Fantastic Science, which is when the new "science" studies/explains the supernatural. Not to be confused with Fiction Science. |
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Sleepless Domain: Sally at one point mentions an "Outer Science" class, which presumably relates to the study of what — if anything — is on the other side of the Great Barrier. | |
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Rocketship Voyager is a Star Trek: Voyager fanfic written In the Style of a 1950s sci-fi magazine pulp. Psionics and psychohistory both get honorable mentions. | |
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"Homo Sol": The alien humans have numerous scientific and technological advances. Even their psychology is far in advance of ours, with mathematical notation and rules such as Kraut's Law and Karolean tensors. Of course, the humans of Sol are completely strange, being considered mad scientists as well as fierce fighters, requiring the invention of a new mathematical notation system to represent our mob psychology. | |
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Childe Cycle: The Exoctics have a social science called ontogenetics that allow them to perceive patterns in human history and to a certain degree predict which individuals and events will be key points in the evolution of humans to a higher state of being. While the exact details are intentionally left vague, it is said to involve calculations that take into account every person in all the world, as well as how institutions and societies shape the pattern of history and human evolution. One component of the science is the idea that certain individuals have an unusually large impact on the pattern of history. Gordon R. Dickson often uses this as something of a lampshade and in-universe justification for the fact that his Main Characters (some arguably rising to the level of The Chosen One) all play a major role in the movement of the Myth Arc toward his planned final ending, which sadly was never revealed in full because the author Died During Production. | |
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Heterogenia Linguistico is about a linguist/anthropologist studying the languages of various nonhuman species, like Wolf Men, Lizard Folk, and minotaurs. | |
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The protagonist of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham, is a xenoanthropologist, specializing in First Contact. | |
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SCP Foundation has several of these. Some examples is antimemetics, the study of things that can't be remembered, and nexology, the study of Supernatural Hotspot Towns, which are called 'nexuses' in the setting. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion has a passing reference or two to Metaphysical Biology, which is implied (both from in-universe clues and from the name) to be the "science of souls". We never get a proper explanation of what exactly it is about, though. | |
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"Let's Get Together": Mentalics, as defined by this story, is "the name given to the biochemistry and biophysics of thought". It also mentions hyperatomics and force-field research. | |
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Artifice features a robopsychologist. | |
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The Stargate-verse has Wormhole Physics. | |
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"The Bicentennial Man": Andrew initially names his creation of Artificial Limbs "robobiology", but as other people studied his designs, it became known as prosthetology instead. It refers to the creation of extremely life-like prosthetics, equivalent to Deceptively Human Robots level replacements for humans. | |
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Solaris has "solaristics", the study of the titular planet. | |
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Farscape partially revolves around the discovery of wormholes and the emerging scientific field around their potential uses. | |
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Pebble in the Sky: The mapping and demographics of Galactography is mentioned, due to having a Galactic Superpower. | |
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Star Trek: Warp Theory, Temporal Mechanics, Exoarchaeology ("Exo-" as in "Exoterrestrial"), Exobiology, Exogenetics, and Exochemistry. The protagonist of Star Trek: Discovery, Michael Burnham, is a xenoanthropologist, specializing in First Contact. |
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A "Timeline of Geolosophical Eras" is seen pinned on Laura's wall on Page 1 of Jenny and the Multiverse. | |
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Gen V: Brink is apparently the world's expert on superhero studies, with three doctorates on the subject. We don't know what exactly they entail. | |
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Foundation Series: Psychohistory is the science of predicting the behaviours of groups, from countries to worlds to galaxies, developed by Hari Seldon. Few specifics are given about this science, but its ability to create prophecy drives the plot of every story. Psychohistory isn't designed to predict the actions of an individual, although the more advanced scientists of the field do so on a regular basis. The mathematics contain unique symbols that describe reactions and are often rephrased for the audience as statements in English. The term Psychohistory was invented by Dr Asimov, but psychologists adopted it for use in their field, although its Real Life counterpart has a different meaning. |
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"The Imaginary": This story adds more details to the alien psychology, which combines elements of neurology and physiology. The story mentions new mathematical notations and rules, such as Demane's Integral, Wilbon's Theorem, and Helo's Tables of Time Integrals. | |
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In Civil War (2006), Reed Richards helps Iron Man with the Superhuman Registration Act because he'd calculated the future of society by Psychohistory. In one issue, he explicitly states that he'd been fascinated by Isaac Asimov's description about the discipline in the Foundation Series as a child, and as a result, had actually defictionalized it in-universe. He and Johnny even went and brought the Thinker to his HQ and showed him his equations, as aside from Reed he was probably the only one who could understand them.* Reed missed out on a major caveat to the field; that its predictions were completely useless if mind control exists to mess up the variables by making people act out of character, and the marvel universe is lousy with ways to do that, least of multiple telepaths. | |
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In Questionable Content, Evie is a Ph.D. candidate in post-Singularity psychology, studying the minds of Artificial Intelligences and their integration into human society. | |
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"The Dead Past": Neutrinics, the study and detection of neutrinos. During 1956, the particle was purely theoretical, a way to explain what happened to the law of conservation of mass and energy. Dr Asimov was inventing scientific-sounding nonsense to justify the Chronoscope and past-viewing. Gravitics, the study of gravitational fields (also containing pseudo-gravitics, the study of artificial gravitational fields). Foster got his doctorate in an even narrower field, the study of how photons move in artificially-generated gravity. Foster's expertise in this field gives him new insight into the unrelated neutrinics, allowing him to design a visual-only chronoscope using only the equipment available in a household workshop. |
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Robot Series: Robopsychology, which Susan Calvin pretty much invented herself. Asimov's stories predated the development of Robotics as a science, so when he had characters in his stories as scientists working with robots, he used the word "Robotics" to describe it, thinking the word already existed. It was in fact the first publicized use of the word, and Asimov is now credited with its creation. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam gives us Minovsky Physics, a branch of (particle) physics dedicated to the eponymous Minovsky Particle. | |
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Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury: Hyperoptics is a brand-new field of science that studies the effects of photons in hyperspace. Mr Mindes is trying an experiment which will result in being able to control how sunlight hits the Earth. | |
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Gog: Pthiriology, the study of lice, from the chapter The chair of Pthiriology. The eponymous protagonist said that he wanted to create at the University of W. a chair that does not exist in any university in the world. Among the many proposals, this one was his favourite. The person who wrote it wanted to study lice not only from a taxonomic and biological perspective, but also culturally, in the arts and literature, politics and religion, giving many examples of its significance in these fields. | |
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