Science
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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.
- Scientific research and study is quantified through the use of metrics.
- It can also refer to a systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject.
- Please also see Science & Research in Charted Space.
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.
NBIC Technologies
- NBIC & COMPUTERS
- N - Nano Science / Nanotechnology (Nano-)
- B - Biology / Biotechnology (Bio-)
- I - Information Technology (Info-)
- C - Cognitive Science / Cybertechnology / (Cogno-)
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.
Projected Knowledge Development Sequence
- Curiosity → Sophonce → Belief → Science → Research → Technology → Omnipotence → Singularity
Selected Scientific Fields of Interest
- Archaeology
- Architecture
- Artificial Intelligence
- Astrography
- Astronomy
- Astrophysics
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Cloning
- Cognitive Science
- Computer Technology
- Cosmology
- Cosmology
- Cybertechnology
- Ecology
- Economics
- Engineering
- Epidemiology
- Ethology
- Ethnography
- Ethnology
- Eugenics
- Exobiochemistry
- Exobiology
- Genetic Engineering
- Gravitics
- Information Technology
- Life Sciences
- Linguistics
- Materials Technology
- Mathematics
- Metempsychology
- Nano Science
- Nanotechnology
- Neurotechnology
- Physics
- Physiology
- Pocket Universes
- Psionicology (Psionics)
- Psychohistory
- Psychology
- Robotics
- Sociology
- Sophontology
- Taxonomy
- Technology
- Taxonomy
- Trophics
- 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