The Sliding Scale of Explainability vs. Wonder

I tried perusing TvTropes to see if they had a Sliding Scale to describe exactly what I was thinking of, but alas, they do not. So it falls on me to write this blog post!

Originally, this article was going to be about a phenomenon within Horror and Fantasy, but I think that Sci Fi fits as well. 

This started with the idea of Soft vs Hard Fiction. Hard Fiction operates under the guise that everything in the world can be explained or operates on known rules or rules that can be figured out b...