Discover the Top 6 Star Wars Science Facts of the Day ,Star Wars exists in the world as science fiction, perhaps as “soft” science fiction that deviates from established science when it’s wanted for a story or to suffocate Imperial officers. However, it has influenced the understanding of space for generations with its blend of fantasy and starships. on the fourth of may Find out examines the science behind this pop culture phenomenon to celebrate Star Wars Day.
Where did the mega-franchise get the science right and where did it make the Kessel Run through reality? Here are six eye-opening facts that explain the science behind Star Wars Day.
Explore the Top 6 Star Wars Science Facts of the Day
1. Lightsabers
Could such a weapon exist in our secular world of gas-powered cars and laser pointers? It must meet certain standards: visible from a distance and able to cut metal, but no other lightsaber blades. This excludes lasers, which would only be visible in fine mist or fog. And since the photons (light) would have bosonic properties, the “blades” would pass right through each other during any climactic confrontations.
Plasma, as in modern plasma cutters, can form the basis for a lightsaber, but even this supercharged substance has problems, according to Connecticut Science Center. Plasma cutters heat gases to about 40,000 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to cut through metal.
The problem is that “a beam of plasma as large as a lightsaber blade will produce enough heat to instantly fry the hands of anyone holding the handle,” wrote Andrew Fotta, a faculty member at the center, in an article. “A lightsaber made of plasma would also require a huge amount of energy, requiring a very large energy source. It kind of gets in the way of those lightsaber duels where they’re running all over the place and jumping and jumping.”
2. Ion engines
The beautiful blue flames that propel many starships in the Star Wars movies, including Star Destroyers and TIE Fighters, emanate from so-called ion engines. And we’re closer to the real-world equivalent of those engines than you might think.
With the help of the Joint Propulsion Laboratory, NASA worked to develop large ion drives which will be more efficient and maneuverable than current rocket engines.
Some satellites already use small versions to stay in orbit, and the retired Dawn spacecraft used so-called electric drives to visit the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015.
3. The power
A. Nepomuk Otte, a physicist at Georgia Tech, argues that the Force ignores a central pillar of physics by acting unilaterally, as when Kylo Ren choked General Armitage Hux at close range.
“Didn’t we learn Newton’s third law in physics class?” he writes in an article. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
He objects to Yoda’s careless raising of an X-Wing fighter from the dredges of Dagobah (in The Empire Strikes Back).
“So why didn’t the little guy squish like a gnat?” Otte says.
4. Faster-than-light travel
When summoned, Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon can jump to the speed of light and dash up to 1.5 times the speed of light, which is unfortunately impossible in our current understanding of the universe. A speed of this kind would require an infinite amount of energy.
The faster the spacecraft moves, the more energy it has. And because of Einstein’s mass-energy equivalence, the more energy it has, the more mass it has. Further acceleration requires more energy, compounded, so the spacecraft can never reach the speed of light.
But Han Solo does and what’s more, he survives the G-forces involved in the fast transition that should turn him into tomato soup.
All of which means that the Falcon’s highly modified hyperdrive is working some kind of magic, or relativity doesn’t work the same way in a galaxy far, far away.
5. Force Training Droids
in New Hope, an untested Luke Skywalker fires himself against a small, spherical droid that pelts him with blaster bolts. His student, Rey, faces the same type of droid The Rise of Skywalker.
Similar round robots called SPHERES live on the International Space Station, where they were used for experiments on the movement of satellites and rockets. In 2011, astronauts equipped them with smartphones and improved their intelligence, so that now they move and perform various tasks.
6. Mustafar
The famous/infamous fight between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan (Revenge of the Sith) takes place on Mustafar, a lava planet rocked by gravitational forces, something that exists in the consensus reality.
“A comparable world would be Jupiter’s moon Io, which is being bent inward by the gravitational pull of Jupiter and other Jovian moons,” writes Sonia Tikoo-Schantz, assistant professor of geophysics at Stanford, in an article. “However, the gases in the atmosphere of such a volcanic world would be noxious, and surface temperatures would likely be too high for anything to survive, much less engage in combat.”
May the fourth be with you on this planet.