AD | Go to https://piavpn.com/Becky to get 83% off Private Internet Access with 4 months free! | In this episode of Astrophysicist reacts we're watching Battlestar Galactica season 1 episode 1 "33" to pick out the science from the fiction in this scifi show. We're chatting about faster than light speed travel, special relativity including time dilation and length contraction, and Newton's third law of motion.

You can watch Battlestar Galactica for free on iPlayer if you're in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08k...
Or on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.co.uk/BattlestarG...

I also needed ‪@DoctorMike‬ for this episode to chat about how long humans can go without sleep

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Faster than light speed travel
03:03 How long can humans go without sleep?
04:29 PIA VPN | AD
06:30 Einstein and time dilation "every 33 minutes"
08:39 FTL and the uncertainties on navigation systems
11:32 Thrusters and Newton's third law of motion
12:18 Bloopers

Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV



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‍ I'm Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don't know. If you've ever wondered about something in space and couldn't find an answer online you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.


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