But I always say that it's important for me as a scientist to be humble, and so it may be that there is some science beyond the uncertainty principle that we are just not aware of at this point," she quips. "I don't think transporters will ever be a thing that we can do. So, transporters require a little more suspension of disbelief than warp drive - or good-humored humility if you're Chanda. These objects have to move slightly slower than the speed of light, which itself has a speed limit. But physics puts a speed limit on anything with mass. Space is vast – it takes years for real spacecrafts to travel within our solar system! In Star Trek, characters zip around the galaxy in their starship vessels thanks to warp drive, which let spaceships travel faster than the speed of light. They end at the galaxy's edge - and discuss why its portrayal in Star Trek might be problematic, scientifically. This episode, the trio discusses the feasibility of warp drive, global cooperation and representation and how the transporters that beam crew members from the surface of a planet to the ship might be breaking fundamental laws of physics. Astrophysicist Erin Macdonald is the science consultant for Star Trek, and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical physicist and author of the book The Disordered Cosmos. Barber chats with two Trekkie physicists about why they love the franchise. So today, Short Wave boldly goes where many, many nerds have gone before and explores the science - specifically the physics - and the science- fiction of Star Trek. Season 2 of the critically acclaimed Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered June 15 ( streaming on Paramount+).
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