“AB Chrysalis” (episode of Space: 1999)
Abbott, Edwin
Abre Los Ojos
The Age of Spiritual Machines (non-fiction book by Ray Kurzweil)
Ahmed, S.W.
Alfven, Hans
“All Good Things” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
“All Our Yesterdays” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“All That Glisters” (episode of Space: 1999)
“All the Troubles of the World”(short story of Isaac Asimov)
Allen, Paul
Alpha Centauri
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)
“The Alternative Factor” (Star Trek: The Original Series)
amino acids
Anderson, Poul
android
Angry Red Planet (film)
Another Earth (film)
“Another Time, Another Place” (episode of Space: 1999)
“The Anti-Matter Man” (episode of Lost in Space)
“The Apple”(episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Arena” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“The Ark in Space” (episode of Doctor Who)
Armageddon (film)
Ascension (television mini series)
Asimov, Isaac
“Assignment: Earth” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Astronaut: The Last Push (film)
Atanasoff, John
“Attack of the Monster Plants” (episode of Lost in Space)
Automata (film)
Avatar (film)
“Back and Back and Back to the Future” (episode of Farscape)
“Back There” (episode of Twilight Zone)
Back to the Future (film)
Baker, Tom
“The Balance of Terror” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Barbarella (film)
Batman (television series)
Baumgartner, Felix
“The Beehive” (episode of The Starlost)
“Behold, Eck!” (episode of The Outer Limits)
“The Bellero Shield” (episode of The Outer Limits)
Big Bang
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (film)
black hole
“Black Hole” (episode of Ren & Stimpy)
“Black Sun” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Blast Off into Space” (episode of Lost in Space)
The Blob (film)
“Blood Money” (episode of Breaking Bad)
Bohr, Neils
Booth, John Wilkes
Bradbury, Ray
Brahe, Tycho
“The Brain Center at Whipples” (episode of Twlight Zone)
“The Brain Stealers of Mars” (short story of John Campbell)
“Brain Unlimited” (episode of Science Fiction Theater)
Breaking Bad (television series)
“Brian the Brain” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Bringers of Wonder” (episode of Space: 1999)
Brooks, Rodney
Bush, Vannevar
Bussard, Robert
“By Any Other Name” (episode of Star Trek:The Original Series)
Calabi-Yau
Card, Orson Scott
Carnot, Sadi
Carol, Lewis
Carroll, Sean
Casimir Effect
“Cause and Effect” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
“Cave of the Wizards” (episode of Lost in Space)
“The Chameleon” (episode of The Outer Limits)
“Change of Space” (episode of Lost in Space)
“The Changeling” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Charlie X” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“The Chase” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
“Chase Through Time” (episode of The Time Tunnel)
“The Circuit of Death” (episode of The Starlost)
“City of Death” (episode of Doctor Who)
Clark, John
Clarke, Arthur C.
Clausius, Rudolf
“The Cloud” (episode of Star Trek: Voyager)
“The Cloud Minders” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
cold fusion
“The Colonists” (episode of Lost in Space)
Colony (novel by Ben Bova)
comet
“The Condemned of Space” (episode of Lost in Space)
Contact (novel by Carl Sagan and film based on the novel)
Copenhagen interpretation
“Corpus Earthling” (episode of The Outer Limits)
cosmic microwave background
“The Counterclock Incident” (Star Trek: The Animated Series)
“Counterweight” (episode of The Outer Limits)
Cramer, John
Crowell, Lawrence
“Cyborg”(episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
Dark Energy
Dark matter
Dark Matter (novel by S.W. Ahmed)
“Dark Planet” (episode of Space Patrol)
“Datalore” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Davisson, Clinton
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (film)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (film)
“Day the Sky Fell In” (episode of The Time Tunnel)
“The Death Clock” (episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
Deathworld Trilogy (a trilogy of novels by Harry Harrison)
“Deja Q” (episode of Star Trek)
“Demon with a Glass Hand”(episode of The Outer Limits)
deuterium
“Devil in the Dark” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Devil’s Planet” (episode of Space: 1999)
Dick, Phillip K.
District 9 (film)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (novel by Pillip K. Dick)
“Doctor Robot” (episode of Science Fiction Theater)
“Doomed Planet” (episode of Fireball XL5)
The Doomsday Machine (film)
“The Dorcons” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Dorzak” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Dragon’s Domain” (episode of Space: 1999)
Drake, Frank
“The Duplicates” (episode of Tales of Tomorrow)
Dyson, Freeman
“Earthbound” (episode of Space: 1999)
Eddington, Arthur
Edge of Tomorrow (film)
Einstein, Albert
Einstein’s Bridge (novel by John Cramer)
electron
Ellison, Harlan
Elysium (film)
“The Empath” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“The End of Eternity” (episode of Space: 1999)
entropy
“Errand of Mercy” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Europa Report (film)
Everett, Hugh
“The Evitable Conflict” (short story of Isaac Asimov)
“The Exiles” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Eyes Do More Than See” (short story by Isaac Asimov)
Family Guy (television series)
Fantastic Voyage (film)
Farscape (television series)
Feinberg, Gerald
Fermi, Enrico
Fermi Gamma Ray Observatory
Feynman, Richard
“Flaming Planet” (episode of Lost in Space)
Flatland (novel by Edwin Abbott)
“Flight into the Future” (episode of Lost in Space)
“The Flight Plan” (episode of Land of the Giants).
The Fly (film)
The Folk of the Fringe (short story collection by Orson Scott Card)
“For a Breath I Tarry”(short story by Roger Zelazny)
“For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Forbidden Planet (film)
“The Form of Things Unknown” (episode of The Outer Limits)
Forster, E.M.
Forward, Robert
Foundation’s Edge (novel by Isaac Asimov)
Frisch, Otto
“From Agnes—with Love” (episode of Twilight Zone)
From Earth to the Moon (novel by Jules Verne)
“From Venus with Love” (episode of The Avengers)
Frozen (film)
Galactic Exploration (series of novellas by Peter Cawdron)
“The Galaxy Being” (episode of The Outer Limits)
Galaxy Quest (film)
Galileo
“The Gallery of Fear” (episode of The Starlost)
gauge field
Gell-Mann, Murray
“Genesis of the Daleks” (episode of Doctor Who)
“The Genesis Tub” (episode of The Simpsons)
“Genius at Work” (episode of Land of the Giants)
Goddard, Robert
The Gods Themselves (novel by Isaac Asimov)
Goedel, Kurt
Gog (film)
Goldhaber, Maurice
Gorath (film)
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gott, J. Richard
grand unified theory (GUT)
Gravity (film)
“The Great Vegetable Rebellion” (episode of Lost in Space)
“The Green Death”(episode of Doctor Who)
“Green Patches” (novel by Isaac Asimov)
“Guardian of Piri”(episode of Space: 1999)
Guardians of the Galaxy (film)
Guth, Alan
habitable zone
“The Hand of Fear” (episode of Doctor Who)
Harrison, Harry
“He Built a Crooked House” (short story by Robert Heinlein)
“He Who Shrank” (short story by Henry Hasse)
heat death
“Hide and Q” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
hierarchy problem
Higgs boson
Hinton, Charles
Hipparchus
“Home Soil” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)”
Hubble, Edwin
Hubble Constant
“Human Circuit” (episode of Science Fiction Theater)
“The Hungry Sea” (episode of Lost in Space)
“Hypnotic Sphere” (episode of Fireball XL5)
“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” (Harlan Ellison short story)
“I, Mudd”(episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“I Sing the Body Electric”(episode of the Twilight Zone)
“The Ice Warriors” (episode of Doctor Who)
“Immunity Syndrome” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Immunity Syndrome” (Star Trek: The Original Series)
“In a Mirror, Darkly” (Star Trek: Enterprise)
“In His Image” (episode of Twilight Zone)
“In the Wink of an Eye” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“In Truth Is There No Beauty?” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (film)
“The Infernal Machine” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Inferno” (episode of Doctor Who)
“The Infinite Vulcan” (episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series)
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
“Invaders from the 5th Dimension” (episode of Lost in Space)
Iron Man (film)
Jeans, James
“Journey to Oasis” (episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (film)
Journey to the 7th Planet (film)
“Journey to Where” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Journey with Fear” (episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
Kaku, Michio
“Kaleidoscope” (short story by Ray Bradbury)
Kaluza, Theodor
Kanas, Nick
“The Kidnappers” (episode of The Time Tunnel)
“A Kind of Stopwatch”(episode of Twilight Zone)
King, Stephen
kipple
Klein, Oskar
Krauss, Lawrence
Kurzweil, Ray
“The Lambda Factor” (episode of Space: 1999)
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
“The Last Enemy” (episode of Space: 1999)
“The Last Question” (short story by Isaac Asimov)
“The Last Sunset” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Lazarus from the Mist” (episode of The Starlost)
Lee, T.D.
LeGuin, Ursala
Leinster, Murray
lepton
“Let It Go” (song)
“Leviathan” (episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
“The Lights of Zetar” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Linde, Andre
Lisey’s Story (novel by Stephen King)
Little Green Men (novel by Peter Cawdron)
“The Little People” (episode of Twilight Zone)
“The Lonely”(episode of Twilight Zone)
“The Lonesome Death of Jody Verril” (from the film Creepshow)
“The Long Morrow” (episode of Twilight Zone)
“The Long Sleep” (episode of Science Fiction Theater)
Looper (film)
Lorenz, Edward
“The Loss” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation) 112
Lost in Space (television series)
“The Lost Machine”(John Wyndham short story)
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (novel by Isaac Asimov)
“The Machine Stops” (E.M. Forester short story)
Mach’s Principle
Mallett, Ron
“The Man Who Evolved” (short story by Edmond Hamilton)
“The Man Who Was Never Born” (episode of The Outer Limits)
“The Man with the Power” (episode of The Outer Limits)
“The Mark of Archanon” (episode of Space: 1999)
Mars
Massive Compact Halo Objects (MACHO’s)
The Matrix (film)
“A Matter of Balance” (episode of Space: 1999)
“A Matter of Life and Death” (episode of Space: 1999)
Maxwell, James
McKeon, Michael
McTaggart, John
“The Measure of a Man”(episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Meeks, S.P.
Meisner Effect
“Menagerie” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“The Metamorph” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Metamorphisis” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Midnight Sun” (episode of Twilight Zone)
“The Mighty Casey” (episode of Twilight Zone)
“The Mindrobber”(episode of Doctor Who)
Minority Report (film and short story by Phillip K. Dick)
Minsky, Marvin
“Minus Planet” (short story by John Clark)
“Miri” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Mirror, Mirror” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Missing Link” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Mission of the Darians” (episode of Space: 1999)
Mission to Mars (film)
“Mr. Spaceship” (short story of Phillip K. Dick)
Moon (film)
Moore, Gordon
Moore’s Law
Moravec, Hans
Morgan, Jack
Muir, John Kenneth
Musk,Elon
“The Mutant” (episode of The Outer Limits)
National Ignition Facility (NIF)
Nemesis (novel by Isaac Asimov)
Netanya (novel by Dror Burstein)
neutrino
neutron
“New Adam, New Eve” (episode of Space: 1999)
Newton’s Second Law
“Night Terrors” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Niven, Larry
“No Time Like the Past” (episode of Twilight Zone)
Non-Stop (novel by Brian Aldiss)
“The Nth Degree” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
“Oasis” (episode of Lost in Space)
Oberth, Hermann
“Obsession” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“The Old Man in the Cave”(episode of Twilight Zone)
Omnes, Roland
“One Moment of Humanity” (episode of Space: 1999)
O’Neil, Gerard K.
Oort, Jan
Ori, Amos
Orion
Orphans in the Sky (novel by Robert Heinlein)
The Outer Limits (television series)
Overbye, Daniel
Pak, Chris
PAMELA
“Parallels” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation) 117
Parallels (film)
“Penny for Your Thoughts” (episode of Twilight Zone)
Perlmutter, Saul
Philolaus of Croton
Phoenix Without Ashes (novel by Harlan Ellison)
Pioneer 11
Pioneer 10
Planck, Max
Planck mass
Planck scale length
“The Planet of Evil” (episode of Doctor Who)
Planet of the Apes (film)
“Planet of the Spiders” (episode of Doctor Who)
“The Plant Man” (episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
“The Plant Man from Space” (episode of Fireball XL-5)
Poincare, Henri
“The Positronic Man”
“The Premonition” (episode of The Outer Limits)
Primer (film)
“Prisoners in Space” (episode of Lost in Space)
“Probe 7, Over and Out” (episode of Twilight Zone)
“Prominent Author” (short story of Phillip K. Dick)
proton
Proxima (novel by Stephen Baxter)
“Proxima Centauri” (short story by Murray Leinster)
Ptolemy
“The Quality of Life” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
quantum gravity
Quarantine (novel by Greg Egan)
quark
The Questor Tapes (film and novel by D.C. Fontana)
quintessence
Radio Free Albemuth (film and novel by Phillip K. Dick)
“Read to Me Herr Doktor”(episode of Tales of Tomorrow)
Reiss, Adam
“Relics” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Rendevous with Rama (novel by Arthur C. Clarke)
“Requiem for Methuselah”(episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Resurrection (novel by Arwen Elys Dayton)
“Return from Outer Space” (episode of Lost in Space)
“The Return of the Archons” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Return to Tomorrow” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“The Revolt of the Androids” (episode of Lost in Space)
“The Ribos Operation” (episode of Doctor Who)
“Ring Around the Moon” (episode of Space: 1999)
“The Rip van Winkle Caper” (episode of Twilight Zone)
robot
“Robot”(episode of Doctor Who)
Roomba
Rubin, Vera
“The Rules of Luton” (episode of Space: 1999)
Rutherford, Ernest
Sagan, Carl
Sakharov, Andrei
“Sally” (short story of Isaac Asimov)
“Sarek” (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
“The Savage Curtain” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Schmidt, Brian
“A Second Chance” (episode of The Outer Limits)
“Seed of Destruction” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Seeds of Doom” (episode of Doctor Who)
Serengeti (novella by Peter Cawdron)
Shaara, Michael
“Shattered Mirror” (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
Sheldrake, Rupert
“Ship in a Bottle” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Short Circuit (film)
“Sideways in Time” (short story by Murray Leinster)
“Silicon Avatar” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
The Singularity Is Near (non-fiction by Ray Kurzweil)
“The Sixth Finger” (episode of The Outer Limits)
“Sky Pirate” (episode of Lost in Space)
Slade, Henry
Slaughterhouse Five (novel by Kurt Vonnegut)
Sleeper (film)
Slipher, Vesto
Smolin, Lee
Solaris (film and novel by Stanislaw Lem)
“Sound That Kills” (episode of Science Fiction Theater)
“Space Brain” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Space Creature” (episode of Lost in Space)
“The Space Destructors”(episode of Lost in Space)
“Space Seed” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Space Warp” (episode of Space: 1999)
“Specimen: Unknown”(episode of The Outer Limits)
“Spock’s Brain” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“The Squire of Gothos” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
The Stand (novel by Stephen King)
Standard Model
Star Trek
Star Wars (film)
Steady State Universe
“Steel” (episode of Twilight Zone)
“Strange Lodger” (episode of Science Fiction Theater)
string theory
“Stu and Stewies’s Excellent Adventure” (episode of Family Guy)
“Submicroscopic” (short story by S.P. Meeks)
Suitor, Bill
“Sun Gold” (episode of Science Fiction Theater)
“The Sunmakers” (episode of Doctor Who)
supernova
“Survey Team” (short story by Phillip K. Dick)
The Talisman (novel by Stephen King)
“A Taste of Armageddon” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Tau Zero (novel by Poul Anderson)
Tegmark, Max
teleportation
“The Tenth Planet” (episode of Doctor Who)
Terminator (film)
Terminator 2 (film)
“Terror of the Vervoids” (episode of Doctor Who)
“Testament of Arkadia” (episode of Space: 1999)
“The Thaw” (episode of Star Trek: Voyager)
“There Were Giants in the Earth” (episode of Lost in Space)
thermodynamics
“This Side of Paradise” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Thomson, George
Thomson, William
Thorne, Kip
“The Three Doctors” (episode of Doctor Who)
“Through the Looking Glass” (episode of Farscape)
Through the Looking Glass (novel by Lewis Caroll)
“Time Lock” (episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
“Time of the Hawk” (episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
“A Time to Die” (Episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
“Time Trap” (episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series)
time travel
The Time Traveler’s Wife (novel by Audrey Niffenegger)
“Timelash”(episode of UFO)
Timescape (novel by Gregory Benford)
“Tin Man” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Tipler, Frank
“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
Transcendance (film)
“Trial by Robot”(episode of Fireball XL5)
Tribulations (novel by Ken Shufeldt)
“Trip Through the Robot” (episode of Lost in Space)
tritium
“The Troubled Spirit” (episode of Space: 1999)
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin
“The Turnabout Intruder” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Tuvix” (episode of Star Trek: Voyager)
“Twiki Is Missing” (episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
“Twisted” (episode of Star Trek: Voyager)
Twistor (novel by John Cramer)
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
“2066: Election Day” (short story of Michael Shaara)
UFO (television series)
“The Ultimate Computer” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Uncle Simon”(episode of Twilight Zone)
“Unforgettable” (episode of Star Trek: Voyager)
“Uwlo of Ulm” (short story by S.P. Meeks)
vacuum energy
“Valerie 23” (episode of Outer Limits)
Van de Kamp, Peter
Vanilla Sky (film)
“Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” (short story by Ursala LeGuin)
“Violations” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
“Visit to a Hostile Planet” (episode of Lost in Space)
“A Visit to Hades”(episode of Lost in Space)
von Braun, Werner
Voyage to Alpha Centuari (novel by Michael O’Brien)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (television series)
“War Games” (episode of Space: 1999)
War Games (film)
War of the Worlds (novel by H.G. Wells)
Warwick, Kevin
“The Way to Eden” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Weeds” (short story by Stephen King)
Weinberg, Steven
“Welcome Stranger” (episode of Lost in Space)
“We’ll Always Have Paris” (episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
“What Are Little Girls Made Of?” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Where No Man Has Gone Before” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Who Mourns for Adonais?” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Whom Gods Destroy” (episode of Star Trek: The Original Series)
“Wild Adventure” (episode of Lost in Space)
Wyndham, John
Yang, C.N.
“Yesteryear” (episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series)
“Y.O.R.D.” (episode of The Outer Limits)
“Zanti Misfits” (episode of The Outer Limits)
Zelazny, Roger
Zollner, Johann
Zubrin, Robert
Zukerman, Ben
Zwicky, Fritz