Fact Attack!

Pictures of Einstein and Newton hang on Doc Brown’s lab wall in Back To The Future, alongside Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison.

The Heisenberg Compensators in Star Trek are named after quantum pioneer Werner Heisenberg, of “uncertainty principle” fame.

2001: A Space Odyssey kept its space scenes accurately silent – and its spaceships had to simulate gravity with spinning sections.

In Futurama, scientists raised the speed of light to allow for faster travel – though they were still limited by that new speed of light.