Interstellar Journey

About this original series

A video series describing how interstellar travel throughout the universe may be possible with warp drive technology.

Category
How To
# Episodes
10 episodes
Rating
TV-UN

Episodes of Interstellar Journey

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  Episode 1 - Interstellar Journey
  
  Life in the 21st century is full of marvelous inventions and technology. However, despite all our progress, we are still a long way from launching a mission that could reach a planet around another star.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 15, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    04:08
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  Episode 2 - Interstellar Journey
  
  What are our incentives to visit the stars and to engage in missions of an interstellar nature? What might be waiting out there for us?
  - Release date
    
    Jul 13, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    03:32
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  Episode 3 - Interstellar Journey
  
  Due to the vastness of space, exploration of even the closest star systems is prohibitively expensive today, and represents a massive challenge to science and technology.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 12, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    03:29
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  Episode 4 - Interstellar Journey
  
  Using current, and near future technology, we could reach a fraction of the speed of light. the Daedalus Project, for example, envisioned a spacecraft the could reach around 15% the speed of light.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 11, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    04:00
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  Episode 5 - Interstellar Journey
  
  There are two remarkable loopholes in the theory of relativity. The first, suggested by Einstein himself is called the Einstein-Rosen bridge, or a more popular term is a wormhole. A wormhole is a tear in the fabric of spacetime that connects two distant points via a stable tunnel through spacetime. Much theoretical progress has been made on wormholes since they were first postulated. However, exotic matter would be necessary to create these devices, and prodigous amounts of energy would be req...
  - Release date
    
    Jun 14, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    03:38
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  Episode 6 - Interstellar Journey
  
  In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble made a fascinating discovery. He showed that the universe is expanding. Recenltly we have discovered an even more amazing result, that the expansion is accelerating! An exotic energy field called dark energy is responsible for this negative pressure on space and time.
  - Release date
    
    Aug 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    03:51
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  Episode 7 - Interstellar Journey
  
  In 1948, the Dutch physicist, Hendrik Casimir proposed the existence of a force that was purley quantum in nature. This Casimir effect is a remarkable and fascinating manifestation of the quantum vacuum.
  - Release date
    
    Aug 31, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    03:24
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  Episode 8 - Interstellar Journey
  
  Extra dimensions may play a pivotal role in 21st century physics. Kaluza Klein theory was an early effort to unify the laws of nature known at the time.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 14, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    04:06
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  Episode 9 - Interstellar Journey
  
  How the Casimir Effect may play a role in the extra dimensions and how understanding this may help us control dark energy.
  - Release date
    
    Oct 1, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    03:52
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  Episode 10 - Interstellar Journey
  
  This video describes an exotic form of propulsion called a warp drive. Manipulation of higher dimensions of space may, one day, allow us to control dark energy and ultimately the expansion of space itself. This has remarkable implications for interstellar travel.
  - Release date
    
    Oct 26, 2009
  - Runtime
    
    04:52