Star Wars: travel through space according to physics
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Star Wars: travel through space according to physics

16 Dec Star Wars: travel through space according to physics

I share a funny news related to the world of Star Warsnow that is in the mouth of all the new release, and it is that students from the University of Leicester made an approximation of how would travel at the speed of light, comparing the results with the raised base by Star Wars.

Citing an article of hypertext:

When in Star Wars "a ship passed to the speed of light, it was a lot of"beams of light"as if they were the views star at high speed. For these students, however, this type of representation was not correct and they decided to conduct a study to determine what is what, really, would be from the ship, and according to their results, more than a lot of beams of light would be something like a bright disk located in the center of the field of view.

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View from the Star Wars Millennium Falcon

And where does an approach how in Star Wars?

According to these students, who have indeed published study in the journal of the University, the cause of all would be the Doppler effect and, therefore, would not be possible to distinguish the stars (or much less see them as if they were beams of light). In physics, the relativistic Doppler effect refers to the change in the frequency of the light from a source that is in relative motion with respect to the observer and, in this case, there would be what is known as bleed blue, i.e. a reduction of wavelength light from the stars.

From the point of view of the cabin of the Millennium Falconwavelength of the light of the stars would be shrinking from the visible to the X-ray range and, therefore, they would only see a bright disk in the center of their field of vision as a result of the change in wavelength of the microwave background radiation that is closer to the spectrum of visible light.

Yes the Millennium Falcon It did exist and could fly so fast, it would be advisable to use sunglasses. In addition, the ship would have needed something to protect the crew of harmful radiation from X-rays

In addition to changing the image that the crew of the ships of the universe would Star Wars, students came to the conclusion that the X-rays they would slow down the progress of the ships and restrain them exercising on it a pressure equivalent to be at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, ships had to spend an enormous amount of extra energy to counter that pressure and to continue their journey.

This study on Star Warslogically, not it is intended to be presented at a symposium on quantum physics or anything like that, in fact, the magazine of the University (University of Leicester completo Journal of Physics Special Topics) is an annual publication which analyzes, from the perspective of physics, fun or creative subjects that are outside the "seriousness" of scientific research.

How regular the saga fan of Star Wars, actually does not generate me confusion if films have a good scientific basis, simply enjoy them how child. By the way, how you probably know, we are facing one of the years most anticipated releases, I leave a link to the trailer de “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.

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