The Physics of Star Trek
by Donald E. Hester
on Jan 04
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Donald E. Hester
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The Physics of Star Trek by, Lawrence M. Krauss
I just finished this audio book. I have to say it was absolutely fascinating. Although I have disagreements with some, popular physics theories, which are talked about in the book. (I don't know why they invent stuff, e.g. dark matter, to explain the unknown. It reminds me of the aether blunder in physics. Perhaps a fifth dimension beyond space-time would answer some the need for dark matter like it does for gravity. Oh, but you can't observe this fifth dimension so it must not exist, you can't test for dark matter and that is ok?)
Anyway, back to the book. It was great if you like Sci-Fi and you always wondered if something you saw would that were possible. They get big things wrong like sound in outer space and the fact that you can see laser beams when you shouldn't. Now when I watch movies I will be questioning all sorts of thing. Funny how in video games now they talk about physics and how they program them in so items in the game react more real. In science fiction, however, they do not. Now I can enjoy Star Trek on a completely new level.
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