The Future of Space Travel: Fusion Engines, Warp Drives, and Wormholes

The future of space travel is a very bright one. In the future, there could be some really interesting ways that we get around the galaxy. The laws of physics set some constraints on what we can and cannot do. But that does not change the fact that we will be able to do some things in the future that defy those rules. There could be other ways to navigate space and beyond that are pretty amazing.

Key Takeaways:

• There are billions of stars in our galaxy, and millions of galaxies in the observable universe alone, making the total number of potential planets literally uncountable at this time.
• Newton’s second law of motion describes the force imparted on an object as equal to the object’s mass times acceleration.
• The practical effect of the law is that it implies that causing an item to accelerate necessitates either greater force, or a lightening of the mass of the object.

“Even light, which moves as fast as anything possibly can, still takes a hundred thousand years to go from one end of our galaxy to the other.”

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• TamingGravity/“Taming Gravity” By Jim Wilson – Popular Mechanics

Reference:

• Professor Dave Explains (YouTube Channel)