What are some examples of different media (movies, books, video

Measuring the world is my favorite /sci/ book, followed by cryptonomicon

>>8616244
Greg Egan - Diaspora
This is exactly what you're looking for. One of the best books I've ever read.

Psychohistory was an interesting concept, it's been done many times since asimov.

>>8616244
OP again, I appreciate the responses and I'm researching them all right now.

The main reason I asked is because I'm trying to conduct research and come up with my own fictional weapons.

I've been looking for things such as laser weaponry, plasma weaponry, mechs in a military setting, FTL space travel. I've also looked into "superweapons" such as kinetic bombardment, neutron bombs, and the like.

If any of you have come across these topics and seen them explained well, let me know.

I'm also curious as to what sort of person would be good at it. Can a writer who is good as research manage it or is it typically the professor/expert turned writer who can offer an insight to fictional concepts?

"Primer" has a pretty good depiction of how two engineers would react to accidentally inventing a time machine. I like how it doesn't dumb it down by having an audience character who needs things explained in simple terms. We're eavesdropping on two experts who are struggling to understand the thing themselves. It's pretty realistic dialogue I think, though whether it rises to the level of "good explanation" is a matter of opinion.

It's not in youtube, so I transcried it: http://pastebin.com/EL8Pc6wq

>>8616336

I use this example because the way it's presented makes the thing seem more believable. Aaron and Abe are barely able to explain the thing to themselves, let alone the audience, but they logically work out what rules they can from the limited information they have

>>8616336
I own the movie actually. I enjoyed it and the garage scene where they first explain it was done well enough.

I disliked the director's other movie, Upstream Color, though. I feel like he went in the wrong direction.

>>8616350

Yeah I only liked Upstream Colour on my second watch

>>8616336
Hated it. Predictable 'have time machine, will cause paradox' movie, the early dialogue is almost unlistenable to with people talking over each other, and despite having a huge IQ I wasn't sure what exactly happened and to be honest didn't care.

>>8616389

you're entitled to your opinion anon!