SIO352: The Picard Maneuver... IT. COULD. WORRKKKK! Says Bryan the Astrophysicist
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Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It's another delightful and educational journey through sci-fi! In a Star Trek Next Gen episode, we learn about the famous Picard Maneuver - where Picard made his ship appear in two places at once. As much as this may sound like unrealistic sci-fi flair, could it actually work? Dr. Bryan Gillis says yes! Kind of. Come learn cool things about astrophysics and relativity and whatnot! Make sure to pledge to get Part 2 early!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to series in queries only this is episode 352 I'm Thomas and I am so |
| 0:22.4 | excited to bring you another astrophysics episode. |
| 0:26.2 | If you're anything like me which maybe you are if you're listening to this this stuff is so |
| 0:30.8 | fascinating. It really is it's like the the fundamental stuff of our universe it's just so cool to |
| 0:37.3 | me I'll never get over it and it kind of blows my mind that there's like so many people probably most |
| 0:41.7 | people just don't have any interest in this kind of stuff and it's just I don't know it's always |
| 0:47.6 | been so fascinating to me you know relativity and what is space and what is the universe and all |
| 0:53.2 | those things I've always thought about those all my life so it has been such a pleasure to |
| 0:56.8 | record with Brian on just a tiny taste of those topics and this episode is a lot of fun I've |
| 1:02.8 | got a two-parter for you but it's pretty distinct parts so it's really just like two episodes with |
| 1:07.2 | Brian well you'll see they're pretty related the first one is we saw a Star Trek we've watched |
| 1:13.4 | an early Star Trek next generation where there was something called the Picard maneuver which you |
| 1:19.2 | might think is kind of silly kind of crazy sounding it's it involves jumping into hyper speed |
| 1:24.4 | and then appearing in two places at once but I think Dr. Brian Gillis astrophysicist is here to tell us |
| 1:29.8 | maybe it's kind of plausible and so in part one we're gonna explore that we're gonna talk about the |
| 1:34.8 | show a little bit but then in part two we're gonna learn everything about special relativity you're |
| 1:40.4 | gonna become an expert on special relativity no not really but we're gonna learn a ton about it |
| 1:45.3 | and so that's what's coming now for patrons I'm gonna release them both pretty quick so obviously |
| 1:50.2 | you have this one and then I'll release part two I don't know 12 hours or something give people |
| 1:55.2 | time to listen to it I just want to do something a little extra for patrons and so part two will |
| 2:00.6 | be coming right away and for Normie's apologies but you might have to wait a day or two to hear |
| 2:05.6 | the part two and to know how the universe works you have to walk around just aimlessly not knowing |
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