Interstellar Travel Without Breaking Physics with Andrew Higgins
Interstellar travel can be real. And you don t need to break the laws of Physics to do it. In this interview, I discuss a realistic way we can send missions to nearby stars in our lifetimes. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:06 How hard is interstellar travel 00:13:19 Ride solar wind like a bird 00:23:15 How a realistic mission can look like 00:40:20 Exploring the Solar System 00:46:50 Fastest gun in the world 00:55:39 Best way to get off planet Earth 01:01:08 Interstellar Symposium 01:04:00 First interstellar mission. When? 01:13:53 How to become an interstellar engineer 01:19:17 Outro Interstellar Symposium https://irg.space/irg-2023/ Andrew Higgins group web page: https://interstellarflight.space/ Twitter https://twitter.com/McGill_AdAstra Jeff Greason’s idea for a “Reaction Drive powered by External Pressure” (the so-called q-drive). https://tauzero.aero/wp-content/uploads/JBIS-May-2019-Greason.pdf New paper on Dynamic Soaring https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frspt.2022.1017442/full RC gliders reaching nearly 900 km/hour by performing dynamic soaring on wind shear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nyYaL0dGAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eFD_Wj6dhk&t=0s 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 55,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Weekly Space Hangout: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-KklSGlCiJDwOPdR2EUcg/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.
