I read this sci-fi book in 1987, and hoping someone can name the title and author. The plot: The story mainly revolves around the 1950's (? might have been 1960's) when scientists were beginning to develop the capability for time travel. The main character works in one of the labs developing this...

Has the author or writers of the show commented on the choice of this number being close to The Fine Structure Constant?

I read this story at least 30 years ago. It was in an anthology book and I cannot remember the author or title. Plot was a guy working in a mailroom noticed that sending mail across town would take a week or longer to arrive, and that mail going across the country would only take 3 days. He the...

Looking for a short story I read online a few years ago. It might have been formatted as a 4chan green text, but I'm not sure. It was pretty short, just a few paragraphs, and I'm not sure if it was part of a greater series or narrative. The story featured humans finding out that reality was a sim...

I'm looking for a manhwa where the main character is transported into a game that's really hard but he can use abilities from alternate game accounts (from different games that he's played and beaten). It was a pretty violent and bloody story. The starting chapter has the protagonist encounter a ...

I am looking for a series of books that have dragon shifters that live in a hidden town and magic users. The main premises is people going out and rescuing other shifters mainly women and children and taking them to the dragon town for sanctuary. One scene in the first book has the female main ch...

In most sci-fi stories, time travel is depicted as instantaneous or nearly instantaneous, regardless of how far back someone travels. However, I’m curious about the first instance where time travel occurs at the same rate as regular forward time—one second per second. I’ve previously asked a simi...

c1960 I read a novel (possibly a Badger Book) about an expedition to Venus. The ship was called the Veneris and was "christened" by the Queen of England. Venus is like Earth was in the dinosaur age, but with human inhabitants who apparently migrated there from Atlantis or some other previous civi...

Are the hover conversion in 2015, DeLorean can fly. To fly, does it still use gasoline? In BTTF-3, Doc says Mr Fusion powers the time circuits ie the flux capacitor but it's not clear to me if gasoline is involved when it flies.

In first scene of Back to the Future 1, the camera shows a newspaper headline Brown Mansion Destroyed and Brown Estate Sold to Developers When does this happen and is it relevant to the story at all?

Right before Libyans attack, Doc is about to go 25 years into the future but then at the end of the movie he goes 30 years into the future. Is there an in-universe explanation for this change? It seems to be related to the Libyan's attack.

The question is already in the title, especially the following things would be interesting for me: Were they normal x86 PCs or Silicon Graphics workstations or some other computer architecture and if so, which one? How many computers made up the render farm? How much RAM did each of them have? A...