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

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

4. Warping spacetime

5. Warping spacetime
Tatooine
Alderaan

6. Warping spacetime
Tatooine
Alderaan

7. Warping spacetime
Tatooine
Alderaan

8. Warping spacetime
Tatooine
Alderaan

9. Warping spacetime
Tatooine
Alderaan

10. Warping spacetime
Tatooine
Alderaan

11. Warping spacetime

12. 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?……

13. Dark Energy

14. Dark Energy

15. Well, it works on
Star Trek: Deep Space 9

16. Lightsabres and
Blasters
Laser beams or plasma beams?

17. Tatooine

18. Possible orbits of Tatooine,
Tatoo 1 and Tatoo 2