Michael Swaim Explains Light Speed and Sci Fi Travel

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Welcome Michael Swaim back to the channel for Futureproof, where Swaim explores science fiction technology and their real life counterparts.
This week Swaim explains: hyperspace!

Written by: Michael Swaim
Hosted by: Michael Swaim
Edited by: Rob Menzer

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00:00No matter what your frame of reference, no matter how fast you go,
00:04light still looks like it's going away from you at light speed,
00:07on account of those massless photons.
00:10That makes the idea of ever catching up to or surpassing it
00:13not just a matter of getting LaForge to route more power to the warp drive,
00:17but one of violating the basic laws of the universe as we know them.

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