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Dr Erin Explains The Universe Podcast
Hosted by Erin Macdonald · EN
Dr Erin Explains the Universe Podcast is the extracted audio from the YouTube series on science behind science fiction. Dr Erin has a PhD in Astrophysics and is a self-proclaimed N7 Slytherin from Starfleet Academy
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Tachyons
May 27, 201800:05:32Tap to summarizeThis video does a quick introduction of Tachyons and the source of them in Star Trek. If there are other fandoms you would like me to explore Tachyons in, please let me know!
Transcribe →Multiverse - Part 2
May 27, 201800:12:10Tap to summarizePart 2 of the two-part episode on Multiverse theory in science fiction. We're going to talk about quantum and infinite multiverses. In other words: Dan Harmon's guide to the multiverse!
Transcribe →Multiverse - Part 1
May 27, 201800:12:29Tap to summarizePart 1 of the two-part episode on Multiverse theory in science fiction. We'll explore simulated, brane, parallel and dripping black hole multiverses! Some mild spoilers for Black Mirror - San Junipero and Stranger Things.
Transcribe →Gravitational Lensing in Star Trek: Discovery
May 27, 201800:10:26Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we'll discuss the method they develop in Episode 9 (mid-season finale) of Star Trek: Discovery. Gravitational Lensing and Triangulation...explained! Spoilers, and please accept my apologies for the lighting in this one.
Transcribe →The Kessel Run and Parsecs
May 27, 201800:10:10Tap to summarizeNo Solo Spoilers. In this video, we're going to discuss what a "parsec" actually is and what Han Solo means when he says the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in "less than 12 parsecs". We'll also discuss the Legend and Canon explanations!
Transcribe →Star Wars Hyperdrive
May 27, 201800:10:34Tap to summarizeNO SPOILERS for The Last Jedi - In this episode, Dr Erin gives her view of how the hyperdrive and traveling through hyperspace works in Star Wars. Recommended other videos include Spacetime, FTL Travel and Tachyons. May the Force be with you!
Transcribe →Gravitational Time Dilation
May 27, 201800:11:29Tap to summarizeWe'll discuss the science of gravitational time dilation, and some of the places we see it in sci-fi. Queue geeking out over Interstellar, Star Trek: Voyager, and some ad hoc calculations of Journey to the Center of the Earth!
Transcribe →FTL Travel in Mass Effect
May 26, 201800:07:59Tap to summarizeThis episode goes into the different types of FTL travel we see in the Mass Effect video game series.
Transcribe →Faster-Than-Light Travel
May 26, 201800:11:31Tap to summarizeThis video goes through some of the basic methods of faster-than-light travel (FTL travel) that we commonly see in science-fiction.
Transcribe →Question - "Why is everything flat in space?"
May 26, 201800:08:50Tap to summarizeThis video answers a viewer question about why solar systems and galaxies are flat discs, and what about our whole universe?
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