Science fiction is a very broad subject of literature. In itself, science fiction can encapsulate ideas of what could be, or things that could be created. This, all the while has to be relating to science. Science is the study and recording of observations that by themselves can not ever be proven true. They can only be falsified by other data. Science fiction has been defined differently by people throughout history. Some people claim that science fiction is like the intuitive, suggestive, and imaginative characteristics of the arts. But others relate science fiction to logic and deductive reasoning. Between both of these views however, science fiction has always been connected to experimentation. In asking the question; "what if?", science fiction is exploring what could come to be when using some scientific knowledge to back up its claim. A common example would be faster-than-light travel. What if it were possible to go faster than the speed of light? This has been pondered in many works of literature that have different scientific theories to support their claims. Some works have more evidence than others, but at the same time can be called science fiction. With so manny different views of its definition, science fiction has continued to influence arguments throughout history.
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