File:How long an interstellar journey will take.webm
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English: No technobabble, realistic look at travel to other star systems. Maybe watch this if you're a science fiction writer.
Contents 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Wait/start problem 01:27 - Acceleration 03:12 - Relativity 05:10 - Trip duration 08:03 - Interstellar propulsion 13:03 - Energy 15:20 - Efficiency ideas 17:15 - Conclusion References [1] Alpha Centauri system by Pablo Carlos Budassi File:Alpha_centauri_system.png [2] Stars Over Cape Town by Omaranabulsi https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stars_Over_Cape_Town.webm [3] RAF Typhoon Flight Over the UK, Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. [4] Air Force 9.0 g Centrifuge by Lance Cheung https://www.flickr.com/photos/10278322@N02/4104391619 [5] Alpha Centauri and the Southern Cross by the European Southern Observatory File:ESO_-_Alpha_Centauri_and_the_Southern_Cross_(by).jpg [6] Denver International Airport, Report by United States General Accounting Office, GAO/T-RCED/AIMD-95-184 [7] Flughafen Berlin-Brandenburg (BER), Terminal 2 by Günter Wicker File:Flughafen_BER_Terminal_2.jpg [8] A depiction of the wheat and chessboard (or rice and chessboard) problem by User McGeddon File:Wheat_and_chessboard_problem.jpg [9] 3D cut of the LHC dipole , CERN, OPEN-PHO-ACCEL-2014-003-8 https://home.cern/resources/image/accelerators/lhc-images-gallery [10] View of LHC Tunnel, CERN, CERN-SI-0107014-01 https://home.cern/resources/image/cern/views-cern-images-gallery [11] Sapphire Capillaries by Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/02/25/laser-drill-sets-a-new-world-record-in-laser-driven-electron-acceleration/ [12] Log fire burning by Zouavman Le Zouave https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fire_burning.ogv [13] Video of a Cloud chamber of the LMU by Michael F. Schönitzer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nebelkammer-LMU-1.ogv [14] The ASACUSA experiment's RFQ by CERN, CERN-EX-1102074-05 https://home.cern/resources/image/physics/antimatter-images-gallery [15] Zoom in onto the stellar black hole NGC 300 X-1, ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/P. Crowther/L. Calçada https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1004b/ [16] A ‘fly to’ WASP-76, the star around which WASP-76 b orbits, ESO/L.Calçada/spaceengine.org https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2005b/ [17] Dipole animation, CERN-FOOTAGE-2014-024-003 https://home.cern/resources/video/accelerators/dipole-animation |
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| Source | YouTube: How long an interstellar journey will take – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today |
| Author | Improbable Matter |
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