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* '''Reconstructed''': Educational pedagogies have also vastly improved, and Alice gets up to speed very fast.
* '''Implied''': Alice mentions that FTL travel shouldn't be possible and a future resident just gives her a bizarre look.



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* '''Enforced''': [[NecessaryWeasel The story about long-distance space travel could not exist without fudging current knowledge]].

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* '''Enforced''': [[NecessaryWeasel [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality The story about long-distance space travel could not exist without fudging current knowledge]].
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice starts to wonder what else she might be wrong about, and [[CatchingUpOnHistory starts doing research to catch up]].

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice starts is relegated to wonder what else she might be wrong about, and [[CatchingUpOnHistory starts doing research to catch up]].unskilled labor, as her lack of basic knowledge for the job makes her unqualified for anything more substantial.
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* '''Exploited''': ???The people of the future use the opportunity to [[{{Troll}} mess with Alice]] by feeding her BlatantLies about things that have changed.
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* '''Invoked''': In the present day, Alice was musing about how Faster Than Light Travel might work for her [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe writing]]. Turns out that [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting her ideas were much more spot-on than she expected]].

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* '''Invoked''': In the present day, Alice was musing about how Faster Than Light Travel might work for asks what's been disproven since her [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe writing]]. Turns out that [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting her ideas were much more spot-on than she expected]].time.
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* '''Subverted''': Dr. Elica clarifies that they're ''not'' traveling faster than light. Something else is going on.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???

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* '''Subverted''': Dr. Elica clarifies that they're ''not'' traveling faster than light. Something else is going on.
on to compensate and give the same practical effect.
* '''Double Subverted''': ???"...of course, there ''are'' true FTL ships out there, but they're too expensive."
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* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': Something theorized but unconfirmed in the present has later been proven correct in-universe.
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All known scientific models, [[FunWithAcronyms from astrophysics to zoology]], have been completely thrown out in favor of others over the years.
* '''Downplayed''': Something theorized and plausible but unconfirmed in the present has later been proven correct in-universe.
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ScienceMarchesOn, and it does so quickly. The further into the future the setting is, the more likely this is to happen.
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What's accepted as fact in the future has wandered astray from the truth known in the present.
* '''Subverted''': ???Dr. Elica clarifies that they're ''not'' traveling faster than light. Something else is going on.



* '''Enforced''': [[NecessaryWeasel The story about long-distance space travel could not exist without fudging current facts]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "That sounds like you're just making it up."

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* '''Enforced''': [[NecessaryWeasel The story about long-distance space travel could not exist without fudging current facts]].
knowledge]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "That sounds like you're just making it ignoring facts to get me to shut up."
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* '''Averted''': [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness In-universe science is kept strictly to what's plausible in current knowledge]], though this carries with it [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece its own risks]].

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* '''Averted''': [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness [[SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness In-universe science is kept strictly to what's plausible in current knowledge]], though this carries with it [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece its own risks]].



* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is treated like a cavewoman and [[DontYouDarePityMe patronized]] in the [=29th=] century due to her "ignorance".

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is treated like a cavewoman starts to wonder what else she might be wrong about, and [[DontYouDarePityMe patronized]] in the [=29th=] century due [[CatchingUpOnHistory starts doing research to her "ignorance".catch up]].



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'''Basic Trope''': Something that's established scientific fact in the present is dismissed as outdated in a future setting.
* '''Straight''': Alice, someone from the [=21st century=], remarks that FasterThanLightTravel shouldn't be possible. Dr. Elica, someone from the [=29th=] century, says there was a breakthrough that proved it was rather simple a few centuries ago.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': Something theorized but unconfirmed in the present has later been proven correct in-universe.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': Dr. Elica says that [[GravityIsOnlyATheory gravity is a superstitious theory that's been long disproven]].
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness In-universe science is kept strictly to what's plausible in current knowledge]], though this carries with it [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece its own risks]].
* '''Enforced''': [[NecessaryWeasel The story about long-distance space travel could not exist without fudging current facts]].
* '''Lampshaded''': "That sounds like you're just making it up."
* '''Invoked''': In the present day, Alice was musing about how Faster Than Light Travel might work for her [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe writing]]. Turns out that [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting her ideas were much more spot-on than she expected]].
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is treated like a cavewoman and [[DontYouDarePityMe patronized]] in the [=29th=] century due to her "ignorance".
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