Life in Our Universe
Season 1
Ep 21. Space Travel - A Reality Check
- TV-PG
- March 2, 2013
- 32 min
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.