featured | Creative science fiction themes from television show Fringe

Series on Popular Mechanics magazine explores where fiction meets fact.

January 1, 2016

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tele. show title: Fringe
created by: JJ Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
total no. episodes: 100

on the web | essentials

Wikipedia | Fringe: television series
Wikipedia | Fringe: list of episodes

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iconic theme to Fringe: the classic science fiction TV show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zruY8dSf1Xk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEBh1dsTkgY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd29YEp7x9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADo4PiAS0ck

best: complete series openers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPaA2IPt3W4

Fox | Fringe explores the unexplained phenomena and terrifying occurrences linked throughout the world – known simply as “The Pattern” — in pursuit of a larger, more shocking truth.

Set in Boston, the FBI’s Fringe Division formed when Special Agent Olivia Dunham enlisted the help of institutionalized “fringe” scientist Walter Bishop and his son, Peter, to save her partner and lover from a mind-bending death.

Through unconventional and unorthodox methods, the Fringe team imagines and tests the impossibilities while investigating unbelievable events, macabre crimes, and mystifying cases involving pyrokinesis, neuroscience, cryonics, genetic engineering, astral projection, and other fantastical theories. When the unimaginable happens, it’s their job to stop it.

Underscoring the unfolding mysteries, enigmatic Massive Dynamic executive Nina Sharp asserts that the advancement of technology is changing the world of science, and conversely, the science of the world.

Agent Phillip Broyles guides the group, while by-the-book Agent Charlie Francis and Junior Agent Astrid Farnsworth provide support and depth to the team.

Fun with Fringe | Weighing in on the show’s fact and fiction science:

Fringe Is on the Right Track with Code-Cracking Science | Popular Mechanics

Fringe Season Finale Flirts with Theoretical Physics | Popular Mechanics

Fringe’s Misplaced Memory Science: Sci Fi Fact vs Fiction | Popular Mechanics
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How Fringe Gets Memory Science Wrong: Hollywood Fact vs. Fiction | Popular Mechanics

Can Worms Help Recover Memory? Fringe Fact vs Fiction | Popular Mechanics

Fringe Gets Fast Aging and Frozen Optics Wrong in Episode 2: Reality Check | Popular Mechanics

From LSD Brain to Dead Autopilot, Fringe Premiere Skirts Reality | Popular Mechanics

On Fringe, Radiation Ghoul is Pure Fiction | Popular Mechanics

Fringe Double Feature Plays with Mutation and Exorcism | Popular Mechanics

On Fringe, Brain-Computer Interface Chips Have Real-Life Inspiration | Popular Mechanics

Fringe’s Human Mutant Not Possible, Says Expert | Popular Mechanics