: Re: The role of inexplicable events in hard science fiction The modern world has few true mysteries, among them the fate of the Roanoke colonists and the crew of the Mary Celeste but do such happenings

Arthur C. Clarke wrote:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something
is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

So yes, no matter how advanced your civilization, you can still get a bit further and introduce something which isn't explainable for them and seems like magic.

The audience of a work labeled as science fiction will usually assume that there is a scientific explanation for whatever is happening, but that the explanation is too advanced for the characters in the work to grasp.

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