If I hadn't met you.

 Will science fiction become Science?

I am watching a fascinating science fiction, or is it science series on Netflix from Spain at the moment; the series is called If I hadn’t met you. 

The series is about a man who is trying to find a universe where his actions do not cause the death of his wife.

The series is science fiction these days because the existence of the multiverse is shrouded in mystery. I am sure that one day this debate on science fiction will become science, after all, in one lifetime the use of cell phones has come from Star Trek to everyday use.

The philosophical argument for the multiverse is that for each we do/ do not take a new universe exists. The counter argument is that if you do not take action, the universe you would have created does not get brought into existence. 

Some things in science fiction I am sure will come about; for one transporting items by deconstructing them and beaming them across space, however, you need to limit what you transport as the Star Trek episode Tuvix showed. There is always the danger of cross transference if you transport multiple items. This then raises the issue, if you create a new being does it have the right to exist as it is a composition of two, or more, beings, but couldn’t you say we are nothing but a mix of our parents?

Time travel.

If you visit another universe, the problem is the you that is in your world is not the you in the other world, all you can do is watch as Captain Kirk had to in a Star Trek episode where he saw a lady he loved get knocked down and die, though he wanted to warn her what was coming, he knew he had to follow Lieutenant Spock’s advice and not interfere for risking millions of timelines that followers from that event. 

There was a short-run TV series in the UK called Crime Traveller; the series was about a man and woman who could travel back in time a few hours, but only to find answers to questions. 

One aspect that needs to be examined is shown clearly in If I hadn’t met you; that is the effect of jumping from one universe to another. In this series, the “jumper” begins to not only age faster but with each jump his memory of events gets weakened.

If you think I am being fanciful as I used to write science fiction, here is a reminder. In 1969, a landing on the moon made world headlines; in 2019 a Chinese spaceship plummeted to Earth in a fireball, what made the headlines; not the spaceship, but who is in the next series of I’m a celebrity get me out of here.

There is a series from Sweden called Real Humans. It is about the day when robotics goes to the extent that androids and humans cannot be differentiated between, that day I can see coming.

To some extent I think science needs to be controlled, but this brings about the question who watches the watcher?

I can recall a film from the 1970’s about two supercomputers that linked and ran themselves, even though they had no power supply.

There is one stupid professor who thinks that we humans, are the only intelligent life in the universe. How insane can you get?

We have no idea where the universe we know ends, so how can he state there is no other life in the universe? 

Who is he?

A professor from Manchester University who played the drums for a pop group so insignificant nobody can recall their name.