Carbon dioxide helps blood move throughout your body. So when your body doesn't have enough Co2, blood flows slower. In order to get blood flowing faster, your heart needs to beat faster and do more work, and irregular heart beat is the result. Hyperventilation also causes many other symptoms in those with anxiety.
Outline of science fiction. Science fiction â a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting. Exploring the consequences of such innovations is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a literature of ideas.
Science-fiction literature anticipates and comments on political and social concerns, and a variety of science-fiction subgenres have emerged: feminist science fiction; disaster novels and novels treating the world emerging from a disaster's wake; stories postulating alternative worlds; fantastic voyages to inner space ; and cyberpunk novels set in cyberspace, a realm where computerized information possesses three dimensions in a virtual reality.