One of the foremost anticipated tv shows of the autumn season is "Fringe," from J.J. Abrams, the hitmaker behind "Alias" and "Lost."

The Fox series, whose pilot ventilated Sept. 9, has been represented as a mix of "The X-Files," "CSI"and therefore the "Twilight Zone," with slightly of film producer David Cronenberg's dark humor. Joshua Jackson plays Peter Bishop, a troubled young man WHO joins his genius (and probably quite insane) person father and a hot young FBI agent to research paranormal phenomena, most involving conspiracies and national security problems.

The titular "fringe" comes from "fringe science," the study of that apparently drove the elder Bishop intoan psychiatric hospital for nearly 20 years. however psychiatric hospital fringe science? …show more content…
(or its newer term, remote viewing), ghosts, and so on.

Then there area unit the ever-popular "free energy" machines, versions of that go back a minimum ofa century. Their designers claim that the devices will manufacture additional power than they consume and run forever, although conspiracy theorists say that the technology has been suppressed by the world's oil and gas firms. (They do not justify why the energy firms would not merely adopt the "free energy" technology themselves, rather than ignoring it in favor of costly and risky drilling.)

Researchers into fringe science topics usually paint themselves as mavericks, freelance rebels brave enough to thumb their nose at the scientific institution. Others purpose to a secret U.S. Government project named "Stargate" as proof that fringe science is valid.

Project Stargate

From the 1970s through the mid-1990s, there was so a fringe science government project designed to explore the chance of psychic