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The Physics of Star Wars Dr Martin Hendry Dept of Physics and Astronomy University of Glasgow

Einstein’s General Relativity Matter causes space to curve or warp

Warping spacetime

Warping spacetime Tatooine Alderaan

Warping spacetime Tatooine Alderaan

Warping spacetime Tatooine Alderaan

Warping spacetime Tatooine Alderaan

Warping spacetime Tatooine Alderaan

Warping spacetime Tatooine Alderaan

Warping spacetime

Warping spacetime Wormholes in spacetime predicted by theories of quantum gravity, but these are unimaginably tiny, and unstable. How do we fit a spaceship through a wormhole?……

Dark Energy

Dark Energy

Well, it works on Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Lightsabres and Blasters Laser beams or plasma beams?

Tatooine

Possible orbits of Tatooine, Tatoo 1 and Tatoo 2

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