{"id":811,"date":"2007-12-31T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T15:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/12\/31\/when-science-reality-meets-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:40","slug":"when-science-reality-meets-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/12\/31\/when-science-reality-meets-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"When Science Reality Meets Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps PKD, Michael Moorcock, and DC Comics were all right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/155670680647790e8b737d1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"> <span style=\"font-size: 18px;line-height: normal\">Stranger that fiction: parallel universes beguile science<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>by Annie Hautefeuille Sun Dec 30, 5:58 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>PARIS (AFP) &#8211; Is the universe &#8212; correction: &quot;our&quot; universe &#8212; no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds? <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071230\/sc_afp\/scienceastronomycosmologyfilmbooksentertainment\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Continued&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;at the very least in some alternate universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps PKD, Michael Moorcock, and DC Comics were all right&#8230; Quote: Stranger that fiction: parallel universes beguile science by Annie Hautefeuille Sun Dec 30, 5:58 PM ET PARIS (AFP) &#8211; Is the universe &#8212; correction: &quot;our&quot; universe &#8212; no more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2007\/12\/31\/when-science-reality-meets-science-fiction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - 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