Life in Our Universe. Episode 21, Space Travel - A Reality Check.
Life in Our Universe. Episode 21, Space Travel - A Reality Check.
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Laird Close
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2013.
Space is so vast that inventing a method of faster-than-light travel is the only way humans could conceivably travel the cosmos conveniently. How hard is space travel, really? In this mind-bending lecture, review the obstacles to space travel and consider their theoretical solutions - from combining matter and antimatter into energy, to taking "short cuts" via warp drive and wormholes.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English
6756932 Kanopy
Astronomy.
Education films.
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Laird Close
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2013.
Space is so vast that inventing a method of faster-than-light travel is the only way humans could conceivably travel the cosmos conveniently. How hard is space travel, really? In this mind-bending lecture, review the obstacles to space travel and consider their theoretical solutions - from combining matter and antimatter into energy, to taking "short cuts" via warp drive and wormholes.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English
6756932 Kanopy
Astronomy.
Education films.