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Revision as of 16:35, 1 March 2019

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Science is concerted sophontic effort to understand, or to understand better the physical and natural worlds through observation, predictions, and experiments.

  • It can also refer to a systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject.

Description (Specifications)

It is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural worlds through observation and experiment.

Scientific research and study is quantified through the use of metrics.

History & Background (Dossier)

Science is not just a step-by-step approach to discovery. Science is more like a mystery inviting anyone who is interested to become a detective and join in the fun. Curious sophonts continue to explore the universe and have done so for millennia.

Selected Scientific Fields of Interest

  1. Archaeology
  2. Architecture
  3. Artificial Intelligence
  4. Astrography
  5. Astronomy
  6. Astrophysics
  7. Biology
  8. Chemistry
  9. Cloning
  10. Computer Technology
  11. Cosmology
  12. Cosmology
  13. Ecology
  14. Engineering
  15. Exobiochemistry
  16. Exobiology
  17. Genetic Engineering
  18. Gravitics
  19. Materials Technology
  20. Mathematics
  21. Metempsychology
  22. Physics
  23. Physiology
  24. Pocket Universes
  25. Psionicology (Psionics)
  26. Psychohistory
  27. Psychology
  28. Robotics
  29. Sociology
  30. Sophontology
  31. Taxonomy
  32. Technology
  33. Taxonomy
  34. Uplift


  1. Tropics
  2. Vulcanology
  3. Xenoarchaeology
  4. Xenology
  5. Linguistics

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.