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.

technobabble by fuko August 19, 2003

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.

technobabble by chrischi3 February 20, 2018

Technobabble Fallacy 

The mistaken belief that an argument is valid or true simply because it uses complex, scientific-sounding, or technical language—regardless of whether the content makes any actual sense.

“Quantum vibrations in your DNA resonate with the cosmic frequency of abundance, aligning you with the higher dimensional matrix of manifestation.”

“Wow, that sounds deep!”

“Nah, bro. That’s just the technobabble fallacy.”

Technobabble Fallacy by Jo Burn June 5, 2025