Project Starshot | New Research on Relativistic Light Sails
April 19, 2017
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as posted by the channelNew research paper from the Cool Worlds Lab about one the most exciting missions ever proposed, "Starshot". Starshot plans to send tiny probes to distant planets beyond our Solar System, the first true interstellar spacecraft. To do this within our lifetimes requires a very fast probe, reaching one-fifth the speed of light. That means Einstein's theory of special relativity starts to become important and so in our new paper, explained in the video, we figured out how much of a difference that makes...
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► David Kipping (2017), "Relativistic Light Sails"
► Live stream of the Breakthrough Discuss meeting at Stanford (04/2004/21)
► Breakthrough Initiatives website
► Cool Worlds Lab website
► Columbia University Department of Astronomy
► Background music by Thomas Bergersen "Final Frontier"
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