Science
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)
Science 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.
- It is quantified through the use of metrics.
Projected Knowledge Development Sequence
- Curiosity → Sophonce → Belief → Science → Research → Technology → Omnipotence → Singularity
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
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Artificial Intelligence
- Astrography
- Astronomy
- Astrophysics
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Cloning
- Computer Technology
- Cosmology
- Cosmology
- Ecology
- Engineering
- Exobiochemistry
- Exobiology
- Genetic Engineering
- Gravitics
- Linguistics
- Materials Technology
- Mathematics
- Metempsychology
- Physics
- Physiology
- Pocket Universes
- Psionicology (Psionics)
- Psychohistory
- Psychology
- Robotics
- Sociology
- Sophontology
- Taxonomy
- Technology
- Taxonomy
- Tropics
- Uplift
- Vulcanology
- Xenoarchaeology
- Xenolinguistics
- Xenology
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.
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science