Discovery Mondays: 'Separating science from fiction'


Photo credit: ESA/NASA, the AVO project and Paolo Padovani

Does the imaginary word of fiction always end up becoming scientific reality? What futuristic visions can we extrapolate from today's technologies? Here is a short quiz to test your knowledge. Can YOU tell truth from fiction?

True False
The laser swords featuring in the Star Wars films really exist.
Time travel is possible using black holes.
You could eat a cake of antimatter.
Levitation vehicles really exist.
Dan Brown is a space alien.


How can you distinguish truth from fiction, dreams from reality, real science and technology from the sci-fi fantasies so realistically described in novels, television and cinema? You are invited to come and discuss these questions at a Discovery Monday at the very frontiers of science.....

Join us at Microcosm (Reception, Building 33, Meyrin site),
on Monday, 4 September from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Entrance Free
The event will be conducted in French.

http://www.cern.ch/LundisDecouverte/