Answer to Question 1

"What are the fundamental differences between science and literature, and what do they have to 'say' or contribute to each other."

Science is based in logic and the things that can be proven. There's also that darn Peer Review that you have to go through in order to prove your theories.

Literature subscribes to the "Star Trek" form of science, otherwise known as "metaphysics." It's basically science that is just theory, cant be proven that this time, but cant be disproven also. It rocks. Most metaphysics come from imagination as well, the same as literature and most literature uses metaphysics in order to further the story.

Eventually, the literary metsphysics will be proven, or MADE so that it can be proven by altering the basic idea of the metsphysics in order to become science.