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by Lawrence M. Krauss (Author), Stephen Hawking (Foreword) "You are at the helm of the starship Defiant (NCC-1764), currently in orbit around the planet Iconia, near the Neutral Zone..." (more)
Key Phrases: inertial dampers, antimatter production, stable wormholes, Star Trek, Milky Way, Antiproton Source (more...)
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Sure, we all know Star Trek is fiction, but warp drives and transporters and holodecks don't seem altogether implausible. Are any of these futuristic inventions fundamentally outlawed by physics as we understand it today? The Physics of Star Trek takes a lighthearted look at this subject, speculating on how the wonders of Star Trek tec