In celebration of the Fringe series finale, Fringe Bloggers has once again teamed up with Smart Pop Books to give you not one, but TWO chances at winning a copy of Fringe companion book — Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips and Mad Scientists!
From Smart Pop Books, Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips and Mad Scientists features “a collection of essays that brings an intelligent eye to the science, science fiction, and pseudoscience of Fringe.” The book is edited by Kevin R. Grazier
You have TWO ways of winning ‘Fringe Science’:
- Leave a comment below letting us know your favorite Fringe science from the series.
- Follow us on Twitter, @FringeBloggers, and Tweet your favorite Fringe science from the series, like so: My favorite
#Fringe Science is _____. I’ve entered the @FringeBloggers book giveaway!#fringebloggerswin (example Tweet below):
My favorite #Fringe Science is Cortexiphan. I’ve entered the @fringebloggers book giveaway! #fringebloggerswin
— Roco(@FringeBloggers) January 18, 2013
Rules:
- Maximum of one entry per person using each method.
The giveaway closes midnight EST on Friday, January 25. We’ll update this post with the randomly chosen winner on the Monday after the deadline. Goodluck!
You can find out more about Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips and Mad Scientists at the Smart Pop Books website where you can also sign up for free sample chapters and buy the book.
Update: congratulations to Syafiq and @Sondos_Sanades.
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My favorite Fringe Science was the transformation from season one. It made me so happy when the writers made it serially pertinent in season 4!
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Wow it’s so hard to pick just one…
I think my favorite would have to be the original mercury-bleeding shapeshifters. I was somewhat disappointed that they fell off the face of the show in the 4th season. I would really have liked to have seen some of the ramifications of them basically having no purpose (since the two universes were working together now) – i.e. if the fringe team on our side would be willing to let them continue to exist in their stolen lives (especially given that some of them grew attached to theses lives), or if they could have been used to combat the newer versions Jones created.
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My favorite Fringe Science is the Beacons used by the Observers.
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My favorite Fringe Science re-animation. Like that one in Brown Betty where they start to sing. HA!
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My favourite scene was from season 1 – Snakehead. The parasitic worms must be the most gruesome thing i watched on Fringe. And i loved how the main actors seemed to be so disgusted by the subject in the cast interviews.
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My favorite Fringe science is the cortexiphan that gives you the special skills such as Olivia and cross between universes!
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My favorite Fringe science by far is interdimensional travel. That is one of the reasons season three was my favorite season. Love this show!
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My favorit Fringe science has to be the alternate universe, the shape shifters and the paradox in “The day we died”:)
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My favorite Fringe Science is anti-gravity; when this gets reality, we should have infinite energy.
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My favorite Fringe Science is telekinesis.
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My favorite Fringe Science has got to be the travelling between universes. So many exciting and cool differences that were obvious and not so obvious between the two!
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My favorite Fringe Science is the many-worlds interpretation and the alternate universe(s)!
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My favorite Fringe science is paradoxes and the parallel universe
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My favorite Fringe Science is the one that got me “hooked” on the show. It isn’t even one of the more well known one’s, such as interdimensional travel, but it came with an explanation from Walter that grounded it in reality. When David Robert Jones needed to teleport out of the German prison, he had a team out looking for the teleporter’s pieces that Walter had hidden in different safe deposit boxes. They were able to move through solid walls in order to break into the different banks using a mathmatical equation and some technology. It all seemed so ridiculous until Walter Bishop (played of course by John Noble) took toy army men and a glass of white rice and showed the Fringe team (and of course us, the audience) that by “moving the atoms around quickly it is possible to move through solid matter”. He shook the glass full of rice and sure enough, the toy army man started moving down through the rice. Right there I realized that Fringe was a show that was going to try and ground it’s “Fringe Science” in reality and I was hooked!
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My favorite fringe science is entering other people’s consciences, September’s mind was particularly cool, but the cartoon one where they have to find Olivia is amazing too.
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I love the Cortexiphan kids and how Cortexiphan made Olivia able to cross to the alternate universe.
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My favorite Fringe Science is the Alternate Universe possibility. I’ve always been intrigued by that and I’m glad that I found a show that was wiling to explore that theory.
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my favorite fringe science is the sharing of consciousness from episode 1. It was the bra and panties tank that started it all!
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My Favorite Fringe science is the peanut butter-bacon sandwiches!
(Culinary Science)
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Well, you see Lincoln only liked the bacon though Rick.
lol
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My favorite Fringe Science was time travel because at first it seemed as though only Observers could do this, but then it actually showed a man time traveling in the episode White Tulip. This show is amazing and I have no idea what I will do with my Friedays now!
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My favorite fringe science was the nanites that burned people up when they moved!
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my favourite fringe science is when olivia know how to use her power in season 3
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My favorite Fringe science was the Alt universe!
I always loved the thought of an alt universe existing and being able to communicate with them!
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My favorite Fringe science is time travel. The paradoxical nature that it presents has a certain kind of irony about it that relates to the human condition. There is a part where a conflict of ideas is palpable and we humans can relate sometimes because we feel it too in ourselves.
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My favorite FRINGE science would have to be parallel universes; the idea of there being multiple different versions of myself who have each lived a different life due to different decisions being made both by himself and by others is fascinating, especially since there is some scientific evidence to support it. It also gave the series such an interesting, unique element; it’s so rare for a series to give its cast such a wonderful opportunity to play different versions of their characters, and it was such a fun ride – hating the other universe, starting to understand it a little better, and then finally loving it and crying when it was time to say goodbye to it. Even before meeting Redverse Olivia and Walternate, I could easily see and appreciate how great of an actress and actor, respectively, Anna Torv and John Noble are, but once we met the Redverse versions of their characters, they impressed me beyond belief, and Jasika Nicole, too, was excellent.
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My favorite Fringe science is to use since for something greater – to share a single moment with true love person and to die with her, like we saw in episode “White Tulip”.
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Of course should be “science” ; -) Autocorrect fail;/
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Please, dear moderator, correct my first comment and delete the other two. I don’t want to be disqualified
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It’s very hard to tell only one favorite Fringe science among many interesting science topics such as teleportation, telepathy, mutation, parallel universes, cryonics and many others. However, my favorite Fringe science is Time Travel because I have always dreamed of traveling through time, like observers do.
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My favorite Fringe science is the time paradox. The White Tulip episode, as well as the series finale, showed how an event could be influenced by something that never happened.
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My favorite Fringe Science is alternate universes and how to cross between them because that really blowed up my mind. I like the show takes science very seriously, so it’s the best sci-fi show ever!
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My favorite FRINGE science was when they thought they should sacrifice human emotions to increase our intelligence and that would be the ultimate solution. We humans are trying to be safe from nature and re-invent ourselves and look at the chaos we have. So it was a great metaphor for our world. If that were possible I am sure people would try to make it happen. I liked the lesson in that it was going in the wrong direction, and our emotions are worth the price, and necessary for us even!
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My favorite Fringe Science is the pocket universe in season 5.
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My favorite Fringe science was the parallel universes… It’s largely because the first episodes I saw dealt so heavily with the redverse that I decided I needed to give the show a real shot and watch from the beginning.
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My favorite Fringe science is the alternate universe viewing window. It pretty much was the beginning of everything involving the 2 universes.
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My favorite Fringe science is the “jedi mind trick” Olivia was able to pull of telekinetically when Peter was on the roof due to Cortexiphan! Yay! Saved the day!
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My favorite Fringe science was the time bubble in “And Those We’ve Left Behind.” So sad and yet it would be so amazing if something like that existed for people who have relatives with Alzheimer’s Disease.
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As generic as it probably is I LOVE the alternate universe and the story of the cortexiphan trials. It’s what the show is all about. The flashback episode to when Olivia was being tested on really added more layers to the plot. Great storytelling.
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My favorite Fringe science is when the observers realize, although can’t comprehend, that the human emotion of LOVE is potent enough to make the non-observers (potentially) more powerful than the Observers. And when Olivia’s love of Etta and strong emotions bring the end to Windmark. The power of LOVE cannot be undermined by the linear rigidity of rationale mind!
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My favorite #Fringe science is the Doppleganger’s since I have one in this Universe…my identical twin sister
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Cortexiphan, of course! The butterflies were cool but I’ll go with my first response.
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My favorite fringe science is the “designer virus” ,that first appeared in season 1 and again in season 4, that had the ability to transform someone into a monster!
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One of my favorite Fringe science is the use of ambar, and the fact that its importance increased gradually. It was a really good idea that has finally become an iconic symbol of the show.
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My favorite Fringe science is from ep. 319, when Peter was able to enter Olivia’s mind to save her. It was so intimate and showed how well he knew her.
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