Stephen Hawking "Trips" to the stars

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Stephen Hawking and the project-Starshot

One of the most relevant astrophysicists on the planet, Stephen Hawking, author of numerous studies on the cosmos and pioneer in black hole research, has sponsored the most audacious space exploration program in recent decades. The Project “Starshot“, promoted by the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, aspires to launch microspace ships equipped with 'nanorobots' into space, bound for the last frontier: the star system Alpha Centauri, 40 billion kilometers from Earth.

The presence of Stephen Hawking and the support of the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, have given credibility to this “science fiction” scenario that, according to the British scientist, could be reality in a generation: a team of lasers would catapult the ships into space, the size of a credit card, and yet equipped with photon microthrusters, nanocameras and communication systems.

According to Yuri Milner, which was named in honor of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ships would be able to travel through this system to one-fifth of the speed of light and reach the star system within 20 years. The Russian technology magnate, founder of Digital Sky Technologies, has put $100 million into the project, integrated into Breakthrough Initiatives, the program for the search for extraterrestrial life that was already backed by Stephen Hawking last year at the Royal Society of London.

“What makes us unique to humans is our ability to transcend our limits", said Stephen Hawking, in the presentation of the Project 'Starshot' (literally “Shot for the Stars”) in New York. “The final limit is the one that stands between us and the stars, and with technologies like the laser ‘light sail’ we can perhaps get closer to that goal in the next generation.” “The chances of finding extraterrestrial life within 20 years are probably very low,” joked the British physicist. "But it will be a big step in the cosmos. We are humans and our nature is to fly."

The physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, of Princeton University, referred to the program 'Starshot' as a definitive change of strategy in space exploration. Freeman Dyson He recalled how almost everything done so far has been in the wake of the European explorers who arrived in the “new world,” loaded with heavy ships. “But there is another strategy that works, as the navigators of the Pacific islands demonstrated even before Columbus arrived in America,” Dyson recalled. “Let's send many ships, smaller and faster, and thus we will multiply the probabilities of arriving,” he argues.

Stephen Hawking once again surprises us by sponsoring innovative projects, from Traveller in time We closely follow his discoveries in astrophysics. I still remember when, a few years younger, he amazed me with his theories for travel back in time, and it amazed me how he could describe complex phenomena such as the collapse of a star in an understandable way. If there is a character that has inspired Traveller in time is certainly Hawking. I think there are still some highly recommended documentaries in the theory sections that address a multitude of topics based on their hypotheses and research.

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