Dr Erin Explains The Universe Podcast

Erin Macdonald
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Dr Erin Explains the Universe Podcast is the extracted audio from the YouTube series on science behind science fiction. Dr Erin has a PhD in Astrophysics and is a self-proclaimed N7 Slytherin from Starfleet Academy

  1. 05/27/2018

    Tachyons

    This video does a quick introduction of Tachyons and the source of them in Star Trek. If there are other fandoms you would like me to explore Tachyons in, please let me know!

    6 min

  2. 05/27/2018

    Multiverse - Part 2

    Part 2 of the two-part episode on Multiverse theory in science fiction. We're going to talk about quantum and infinite multiverses. In other words: Dan Harmon's guide to the multiverse!

    12 min

  3. 05/27/2018

    Multiverse - Part 1

    Part 1 of the two-part episode on Multiverse theory in science fiction. We'll explore simulated, brane, parallel and dripping black hole multiverses! Some mild spoilers for Black Mirror - San Junipero and Stranger Things.

    12 min

  4. 05/27/2018

    Gravitational Lensing in Star Trek: Discovery

    In this episode, we'll discuss the method they develop in Episode 9 (mid-season finale) of Star Trek: Discovery. Gravitational Lensing and Triangulation...explained! Spoilers, and please accept my apologies for the lighting in this one.

    10 min

  5. 05/27/2018

    The Kessel Run and Parsecs

    No Solo Spoilers. In this video, we're going to discuss what a "parsec" actually is and what Han Solo means when he says the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in "less than 12 parsecs". We'll also discuss the Legend and Canon explanations!

    10 min

  6. 05/27/2018

    Star Wars Hyperdrive

    NO SPOILERS for The Last Jedi - In this episode, Dr Erin gives her view of how the hyperdrive and traveling through hyperspace works in Star Wars. Recommended other videos include Spacetime, FTL Travel and Tachyons. May the Force be with you!

    11 min

  7. 05/27/2018

    Gravitational Time Dilation

    We'll discuss the science of gravitational time dilation, and some of the places we see it in sci-fi. Queue geeking out over Interstellar, Star Trek: Voyager, and some ad hoc calculations of Journey to the Center of the Earth!

    11 min

  8. 05/26/2018

    FTL Travel in Mass Effect

    This episode goes into the different types of FTL travel we see in the Mass Effect video game series.

    8 min
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Dr Erin Explains the Universe Podcast is the extracted audio from the YouTube series on science behind science fiction. Dr Erin has a PhD in Astrophysics and is a self-proclaimed N7 Slytherin from Starfleet Academy

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