technobabble

The art of using a bunch of nonsensical ramblings to solve of explain a problem. Usually used by SCI-FI writers once they have written themself in a corner.

Scotty couldn't beam Kirk up until he reversed the polarity on the microconvertor to align it in phase with the heisenberg compensator.

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technobabble

Commonly seen in sci-fi, technobabble is a term commonly used to describe authors making up something that sounds smart, while actually being completely meaningless. It can also be used to describe a quack doing the same thing.

Spirit Science Quack: Our level of understanding directly relates to the level of reality we have control over.
Skeptic: Thats all technobabble.