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,Introduction: Discerning the Real, the Possible, and the?Impossible,ence fiction as a vehicle for exploring actual science and as a springboard for discussing some of the exciting topics that are currently being researched. Our examples will be drawn almost exclusively from film and television. Occasional references to a few of the classic works of science fiction l

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What Is the Universe Made of? (Matter, Energy, and Interactions), immaterial—which inhabit space and time? The state of our current understanding of matter and energy is both highly detailed and very incomplete. We still have a lot to learn. As already hinted in Chap. ., Einstein’s theory of general relativity is very successful at describing physics on the large