It is a matter of opinion whether this demonstrates a lack of attention to craftsmanship or a conscious effort to expand the boundaries of science fiction, either into a kind of magical realism, continuing the process of literary exploration that he had begun with Stranger in a Strange Land, or into a kind of literary metaphor of quantum science ( The Number of the Beast dealing with the Observer problem, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls being a direct reference to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment ).

Strange matter is a type of quark matter that may exist inside some neutron stars close to the Tolman – Oppenheimer – Volkoff limit ( approximately 2 – 3 solar masses ).

In 1989, fractals were part of the subject matter for an art show called Strange Attractors: Signs of Chaos at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

He had been predeceased by his eldest son and heir, George Stanley, Lord Strange by a matter of months and was succeeded as Earl by his grandson, Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby.

In the book The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, published after Gorey's death, his friend Alexander Theroux reported that when Gorey was pressed on the matter of his sexual orientation, he said that even he was not sure whether he was gay or straight.

Doctor Strange contacts Tony Stark and Reed Richards for advice on the matter, as they were partially responsible for Peter's decision to publicly unmask.

Light – matter interaction in terms of photons is a topic of quantum electrodynamics, and is described in detail by Richard Feynman in his popular book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.

" " Aliens not understanding nudity taboos is at least as old as Heinlein's Stranger and a Strange Land ( sic )…( and ) Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen ... humans are little more than passing sights and smells, but for Starfire, Todd and Harper somehow stand out and matter to her.

In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, " No matter how much thought may have gone into Strange Days, terribly little has come out the other end ".

Strange events then happen repeatedly: a red bag with a bunny on the front reappears no matter how often Yoshimi tries to dispose of it.

This point is made salient by the films which choose to employ first-person camera angles such as Strange Days ( 1995 ) when it depicts recorded memories experienced via the " SQUID " recorder, the first-person sequence of Doom ( 2005 ), the beginning of Enter the Void ( 2010 ), and others, and how radically these moments stand out against normal cinematography even when the subject matter is something as subjective as a dream.

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Titles include Pranks, Incredibly Strange Films, and Modern Primitives, and the subject matter includes profiles of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and others.

Although aided by Doctor Strange and the appearance of Cassandra Nova, Xavier is unsuccessful.

Hofstadter's 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop carries his vision of consciousness considerably further, including the idea that each human " I " is distributed over numerous brains, rather than being limited to precisely one brain.

The dedication for I Am A Strange Loop is: " To my sister Laura, who can understand, and to our sister Molly, who cannot.

* In the 1983 comedy Strange Brew, which is loosely based on Hamlet, the protagonists are given jobs at Elsinore Brewery.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as " water ", " to drink ", " life ", or " to live ", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.

Among his films is Kwaidan ( 1965 ), a collection of four ghost stories drawn from the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending.

An example of a comedy film that targets a more general audience is Strange Company's Tum Raider, produced for the BBC in 2004.

The author George Johnson has written a biography of Gell-Mann, which is titled Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann, and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics, which Dr. Gell-Mann has criticized as inaccurate.

James F. Strange, an American archaeologist, notes: “ Nazareth is not mentioned in ancient Jewish sources earlier than the third century AD.

Three novels from this period, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Time Enough for Love, won the Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction.

The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.

Heinlein made quick work of altruism as a false virtue in Stranger in a Strange Land and mentioned John Galt — the hero in Rand's " Atlas Shrugged "-- as a heroic archetype in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

" Steve " Ditko ( born November 2, 1927 ) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

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This is perhaps linked to Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which Wilde admired.

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder.

In Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, reference is made to Tantalus: " This wine is one of the vintages of Hell – but do not allow yourself to be dissuaded from tasting it upon that account!

Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is known for its portrayal of a split personality and has become synonymous with multiple personalities in both lay and scientific literature

The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published in 2007.

So the difference between the video-feedback loop and our strange loops, our " I " s, is that while the former converts light to the same pattern on a screen, the latter categorizes a pattern and outputs its essence, so that as we get closer and closer to our essence, we get further down our strange loop ( according to Hofstadter's book ' I am a Strange Loop ').

In Belgium, where the Decadents and Symbolists were as numerous as their French counterparts, Félicien Rops depicted a grinning Pierrot who is witness to an unromantic backstage scene ( Blowing Cupid's Nose ) and James Ensor painted Pierrots ( and other masks ) obsessively, sometimes rendering them prostrate in the ghastly light of dawn ( The Strange Masks ), sometimes isolating Pierrot in their midst, his head drooping in despondency ( Pierrot's Despair ), sometimes augmenting his company with a smiling, stein-hefting skeleton ( Pierrot and Skeleton in Yellow ).

Strange, but true -- authenticity and realism often aren't related at all.

Strange phenomena and incredible characters ( like monstrous characters that are divine or evil spirits or magicians and sorcerers ) are put into fantasy films, and often overlap with supernatural films.

* During filming, Glenn Strange found Costello so funny he would often break up laughing, necessitating many retakes ( this is readily apparent in the scene where Costello sits on the Monster's lap ).

Commonly, longer novellas are referred to as novels ; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Heart of Darkness are sometimes called novels, as are many science fiction works such as The War of the Worlds and Armageddon 2419 A. D. Less often, longer works are referred to as novellas.

Contrasting with this lush collection of often relatively obscure remakes, the second album with Strange Sensation, Mighty ReArranger ( 2005 ), contains new, original songs.

Also, hansoms are often mentioned in his best horror work: " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ".

This creation is often referred to as Baron Strange de Knokyn or Baron Strange of Knokyn ( alternatively spelt Knokin or Knockin ).

Strange and brutal as it is, this myth reflects a great many cultural tensions that the Greeks expressed in the opposition they often drew between the lyre and aulos: freedom vs. servility and tyranny, leisured amateurs vs. professionals, moderation ( sophrosyne ) vs. excess, etc.

Aside from a part in the suspense drama Sherlock Holmes and the Strange Case of Miss Faulkner and her desire to play more-challenging roles Entwistle was often cast as a comedienne, most often the attractive, good-hearted ingénue.

Many of the stories share a lot of elements with the regular Batman and Detective Comics and have often been referenced in modern continuity, notably Leslie Thompkins ' discovery of Batman's identity, the origin of Bane's venom, the characterization of Hugo Strange, the origin of the BatCave, and others.

Some parts of the Rivethead scene emphasize a post-apocalyptic, dystopian influence, often inspired by movies, e. g. Mad Max ( 1979 ), Escape from New York ( 1981 ), Gunhed ( 1989 ), Death Machine ( 1994 ) or Strange Days ( 1995 ).

Pacific's published output contained editorials by David Scroggy, who had started as a comics retailer in 1975, and risen to general manager of Pacific's four San Diego shops by the late 1970s, proving himself as " a great go-between in working with often temperamental and almost always ego-fragile creators ," and " helping to bring to Pacific one of comicdom's most reclusive artists, Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

Strange — though not necessarily unpleasant — odors often waft across the Arthur Kill, and affect air quality not only on Staten Island's West Shore where Travis is located, but parts of the island's South Shore and Mid-Island regions as well.

Maven occasionally plays a magician character ( often as himself ) on various television series, such as, " Magic ", " The Art of Magic ", " Something Strange with Max Maven ", " Fresh Prince of Bel Air ", and " The MAXimum Dimension ".

The Ancient One would often assist Stephen, but when the extra-dimensional monster called Shuma-Gorath tried to invade Earth through the Ancient One's mind while he was in the Crypts of Kaa-U, the Ancient One prompted Strange to destroy the portion of the Ancient One's mind which constituted his ego, or sense of self.