Science

* See also Rapture Society
* See also Philosophy
* See also Technologies in Rapture
* See also Tenenbaum and Suchong and McClendon and Sinclair and Gilbert Alexander
* See also Faux-Science
* See also Real_Physics
== Freedom Of Science Seems an Avenue which Rapture Exists to Satisfy==
: Research & Development ( limited in a smallish population - even loaded with freedom-seeking scientists )
: Research Costs - Time, Material, Tools, Space ( Profits only at the end - and only Maybe - So Don't quit your day job - Good Ideas Alone don't Pay the Rent ... )
: Obtaining Knowledge from The Surface World ( imported Scientific Papers kept them 'up to date' )
: Ryan University Collaboration Projects ( and training/retraining in Science and Technology )
: Great advances happening in The Surface World which can be tapped into ( Easier before the Closing_Off_Rapture ).
: Consumer Product - through Science and Engineering
Another display for Rapture's Museum.  Perhaps these fossils you saw were some backhanded dig against Religion by the writers, but then maybe THEY are ignoramuses who don't know that a large number of Christian Churches believe in Evolution.
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Rapture's Particle Collider ( Used in Lots of types of Technical Research ) :
* Helped develop the bio-circuitry technology ( used for The Thinker ) - converting biological circuitry to 'Hardware' by bombarding them with various ions and etchants to form complex miniature circuitry.
* Electron Microscope ( spotted in Persephone medical areas )
* Weapons development ( since these machines weigh many tons, they might work as a 'fixed' weapon installation )
* Found the Higgs Boson Particle 50 years earlier than The Surface did, but then they 'Lost it in the Laundry' - brought about new theory about Disappearance of Socks ( and that Quantum Entanglement stuff ).
* Sorry, there is NO magic Quantum BullshitNO magic Quantum Bullshit : "Just the Science Ma'am, only the Science" ... allowed in the MMORPG's Sci-Fi Rapture.
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Scientific Freedom - Really An Issue ??
Perhaps if Rapture was back in Infinite's time, Scientific Freedom would be a bigger issue. Darwinism was still facing major backlashes from General Society, etc ... But WW2 ( and even WW1 ) were both Wars of Science, and so the 'Freedoms' were hardly an issue Post-1945. Experimenting on Prisoners without their permission was anathema to Objectivism ( which champions individual rights and seeks to limit government impositions ).
So the whole 'Came to Rapture to get away' for Science was as weak as that for Art Freedom.
Governments telling Scientists what they SHOULD work on - That was more an issue - if any.
Various Totalitarian Governments were doing Unethical Research and were using many Scientists and Doctors and Engineers for that Purpose. Perhaps there would be more than a little ESCAPING from the Demands of such Governments as a reason to 'Come To Rapture'.
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