WEBVTT - TechStuff Leaps Into Hyperspace 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:14.560 Get in touch with technology with tex stuff from dot com. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.800 He there text stuff fans. This is Jonathan Strickland and 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.280 I'm Lauren Wold OBAM and today we want to present 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.520 you a little drama. So I will be taking on 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:26.480 a roll and Lauren will be taking on a roll 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.639 and this plays into what we'll be talking about today. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:32.960 So here we go, man, red leather, yellow leather, red leave, 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.640 yellow leather. All right, here we go, Han Solo, I'm 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.239 captain of the Millennium Falcon. Chewy here tells me you're 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.879 looking for passage to the Alboron system. Yes, indeed, if 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.120 it's a fast ship fast ship, You've never heard of 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.680 the Millennium Falcon, should I have? It's the ship that 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.120 made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. I've 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.720 outrun Imperial starships, not the local bulk cruisers mind you. 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.360 I'm talking about the big Karelian ships. Now, she's fast 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.040 enough for you, old man? What's the cargo? Usually I 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.240 am the one calling you old man. Yeah, that's true. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:03.720 I just wanted to turn that around a little bit. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.840 I also didn't go full Christopher walk In, despite the 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.360 fact that I love that Saturday Night Live skit. So 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.760 we are talking about the Kessel Run and hyper drives 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.440 in the Star Wars universe and uh, and then kind 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.560 of comparing it to what we would like to call 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.759 real life. Right. We're doing this, by the way, because 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.840 this is our five first episode and we are we 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.679 we are big fans of the five of first legion. 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.000 That's right, That's right, that's the Uh. This is props 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.840 going out to our Star Wars buddies. So you five 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.319 hundred and first members out there, this one's for you. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.360 So now, in the original context, we need to talk 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:40.080 about what the Kessel Run is within the mythology of 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.319 Star Wars, all right, and it's not really mentioned in 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.520 um in any of the three original films, right, or 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:50.400 even the fictional prequels that supposedly exist. No, we should 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:55.000 also point out, according to everything I've ever read, Lucas 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.520 considered anything that was in the movies cannon correct. Anything 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.400 outside the movies was just extra stuff that may or 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.960 may not line up with what is canon. So there's 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.920 no um. You know, the stuff that we'll be talking 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.040 about a lot of this is things that other writers 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.920 have kind of expounded upon in in the novels. Are 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.640 the comics and of the video games, yeah, some of 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.359 the cartoons, etcetera. And so the stuff that we're talking 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.720 about this is this is mostly people trying to explain 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.080 away what Lucas created in a in a manner that 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.000 makes kind of sense, because a lot of the stuff 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.240 that you watch in Star Wars, if you really think about, 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.480 you're like, wait a minute, it's not science. So the 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:37.000 Kessel Run in particular is a route in Star Wars, 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.440 at least this is the way it's explained. In the 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.560 Expanded Universe. It's it's a smuggling run, right, which is 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.080 exactly what you know. Han Solo is a smuggler, and 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.280 so this is a particular route through space that smugglers 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.880 would take. And uh. And one of the big complaints 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.640 or criticisms of this particular section of dialogue is that 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.680 Han Solo talks about doing a Kessel Run in less 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.360 than twelve parts x, which seems to suggest that he 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.200 thinks par sex is a measure of time, right, And 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.760 it's not, and it's it's certainly not, you know, you know, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.960 I think that my my strongest um explanation of this 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.800 is just that Han Solo was just saying words he 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.280 was just talking and trying to sound impressive. My my 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.960 explanation is Lucas thought that parsex sounded futuristic and that 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.200 it sounds like a measurement of time. That was mine, 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.320 which puts the onus on the writer, not the character. 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.240 But hey, you know, I'm a writer. That's kind of 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.600 how I think. Like sometimes I make mistakes too. I'm 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.480 just saying that if you're going to excuse the character saying, 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.560 and I think that that is not a poor right 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.800 if you want to be an apologist. Sure, So, so 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.480 what a what a par sec actually is? It is 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.800 a unit of distance. It technically based upon uh the 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:50.520 uh the Sun and Earth and and and a second 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:56.240 of arc uh. It involves some pretty complex uh concepts 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.920 that are not that complex, but they're difficult to explain 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.760 an audio format. But ultimately it translates to about three 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.720 point to six light years, right, And and it's specifically, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.000 by the way, tied to to the distance of the 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.760 Sun from the Earth and another object and another object 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.640 that makes up one sec. And so you know, forgiving 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.640 the fact that we're talking about a galaxy far far away, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.600 and that perhaps as a phil plate of that astronomer 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.120 pointed out that might not be the most valid measurements. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.480 Why would think why would another why would people in 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.599 another galaxy use a unit of measurement that's dependent upon 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.840 the Earth's position relative to another object and the sun. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.800 That makes no sense at all. But anyway, so it's 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.200 it's equivalent to about three point to six light years, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.800 And of course that just makes things even more confusing 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:43.599 for people who don't know what a light year is 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.720 and they think light year is also a measurement of time. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:50.440 It's not. But at any rate, the description Han Solo 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.680 makes is very confusing if you think about parsecs being 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.960 a distance, like, how can you take a route and 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.760 say that your ship made it in less than twelve 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.479 units of distance for that route and make that the 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.119 a measurement of its speed. So here's how we're gonna 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.640 try and explain this well. And also I should mention 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.920 uh in the novelization of a New Hope, Han Solo 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.000 does not say par sex recond that real quick. He 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:24.000 said standard time units twelve less than twelve standard time units. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.240 I have no idea how long the standard time unit is, 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.840 but that doesn't really matter, I guess. But anyway, so 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.400 kessel run. You've got this route. It's usually if you 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:39.240 are taking the quote unquote safe approach, eighteen par sex long, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.880 which is about years. Yeah. So the reason why it's 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.520 that long is because the route takes you through an 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.640 area of space that has black holes in it. It's 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:54.760 called the mall and the maw in aw would destroy 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.480 a ship if you got too close to it. It's 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.520 you know, it's a black hole. There bad times for ships, right, 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.120 you know, you know you do? You have you heard 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.919 what the term is for something that gets pulled through 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.480 a black hole, the term of what is happening to 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.479 it spaganification. It's my favorite thing in the world, yes, 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.120 because it gets pulled into these long, thin strands as 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:18.080 it's being uh infinitely thin strands hypothetically being pulled towards 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:23.800 this center of intense density or intensity as I like 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.400 to call it. Anyway. So usually this route would be 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.839 eighteen parsex long, but if one were to be a 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:36.919 little daring or perhaps insane, completely crazy, one might be 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.719 able to plot a route that goes closer to the 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.160 black holes. He kind of scarred around it, and you know, 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.120 Han Solo, being the guy that he is, he's he says, 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.039 you know, time is money or distance his money, or 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.800 money is money or something I don't know. Anyway, he 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.360 wanted to be able to take a more direct route, 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.880 which would shave off about six or so parsex for 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.599 this eighteen parsic long route, and that means that you know, 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.560 he's he's essentially instead of going like a curved line, 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.240 he's making a straight line. Not quite like that dramatic, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.800 but close to it. So in other words, he's taking 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.360 a route and making it more efficient, but it is 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:22.840 much more dangerous. There's no direct relationship between the Millennium 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.640 Falcon's speed and this route immediately, but one could argue, 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.600 and one has. In fact, Kyle Hill of Wired wrote 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.000 a great article how the Star Wars Kessel run turns 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:40.400 Hans Solo into a time traveler. Fantastic articles. Yeah, it's 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.679 entertaining and uh and also and it starts to build 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.440 in some chronological problems in the Star Wars universe, but 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.840 we'll get into those. But anyway, he points out that 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.440 that you could end up thinking, oh, well, the Millennium 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.080 Falcon has to be a fast ship because it has 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.960 to be able to escape that pull of the black hole. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.280 So Therefore, that's what tells you that it's fast. It's 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.200 not only that heat and only is the pilot capable 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.120 of making a more efficient route to go through the 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.360 Kessel run, but there's also in a ship fast enough 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.200 to a state black roles, right right? Yeah, Well, according 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.760 to a Wikipedia, which is one of the best wikis ever, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.120 I just said that on the air, it was wonderful. Um. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.680 In the commentary for Star Wars episode for a New 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.800 Hope DVD, George Lucas said that the Millennium Falcons navigational 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.040 computers were highly advanced and that that was why the 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.400 parsic thing works out the way that it does. Yeah, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.480 that's yeah. So essentially then you just make Han Solo 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.360 a Guo flips switches a really good flip switcher. There's 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.679 also a great thing that was at the Smithsonian for 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.160 the Star Wars exhibit where uh, Harrison Ford was actually 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.440 talking about the first time they shot uh seen in 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.480 the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, and George Lucas gave 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.160 him the direction of your flying the ship and he says, Okay, 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.920 how do I do that? Because there are just all 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.360 these dials and switch is that they didn't. There was 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.920 no rhyme or reason to it. And Chus was like, 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.480 I don't know. So there was buttons pull that lever 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.320 pushed the button Frank. So anyway you might wonder, well, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.840 why what's the big deal of the Kestle run? Anyway, 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.960 was what was the significance? Like it's a smuggling route, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.840 but it's a smuggling route for what? And within the 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.880 lore again this again not film expanded universe, so not 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:30.679 Cannon Kessel was a planet that had these minds on 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.360 it for something called glitter stem spice, which was a 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:40.000 substance created by spice spiders, and it's a photoactive substance, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.000 so it activates when light hits it, so it had 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.720 to be mined in complete darkness. It could not be 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.000 exposed to light in anyway or else it would lose 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:52.800 its potency. And the spice was essentially a drug. Uh. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:54.800 As cheery as that is, I do want to point 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.600 out that I'm pretty sure the word castle comes from 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.480 during World War Two. You know that you Rman's got 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.920 themselves really good and surrounded by a group of Russians, 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.360 and UH and some of their compatriots were trying to 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:09.680 get supplies and aid to uh their their surrounding colleagues leagues. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.920 Yeah sure, and this failed completely. But but the word 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.800 kessel means that like pocket in German cat or cattle. Yeah, 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.320 dossi rishtish uh So the glistone spice stuff. What it 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.760 was supposed to do within the realm of Star Wars 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.320 is boost your mental capacity and even give you perhaps 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.920 telepathic powers for a short amount of time. It was 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.439 also incredibly addictive. This is this makes Han Solo an 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.920 even darker character in a way because he's smuggling. Yeah, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:41.199 he runs drugs, um so, yeah, that's kind of grim. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.560 But in the during the Galactic Republic, which is the 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.360 period that proceeds A New Hope, that's back when there 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.160 was a the Old Republic was around. It was being 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.360 used medically, but then the Republic fails and then the 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.520 black market takes over. Smugglers start selling this I guess 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.080 more like recreational drug as opposed to medical things, and 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.640 the Empire outlaws it. And so that's why it's important 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:11.040 to be able to avoid imperial entanglements, as Obi Wan 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.880 says in a New Hope. So that's why it's important 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:19.880 that there's the explanation of shaving off some of the 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.440 distance that it would normally take you to to travel 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.600 in order to get there, and also the fact that 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.199 the Falcon would have to be a little faster than 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.760 most ships. Now, all of that is kind of cool. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.080 I can. I can kind of handle most of that, 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.120 even though I think that the PARSEC thing is really 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:40.280 an apologist. It's a red coon or retroactive continuity, where you, 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.640 after you've made a mistake, you go back and try 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.079 to justify the fact that a mistake is there. Uh, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:53.520 this is, by the way, in no way it's extraordinarily common. Um, yes, everywhere, Yeah, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.120 it's Yeah. So the other thing that Hans Solo says 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.520 is that can go at point five beyond light speed. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.560 So I interpret that to mean half again faster than 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.480 the speed of light. I I interpreted it as as 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.720 a as point five percent of light speed above light speed. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:13.720 But but but your sounds much more impressive. But that 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.400 would be much mind would be much more impressive. Either way, 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.560 you're violating the laws of physics as we understand them. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.000 Because as we as we understand the speed of light 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.520 through a vacuum is the universal speed limit. Nothing can 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.600 go faster than light through a vacuum physically impossible. Now 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.600 we should also mention light itself does not necessarily travel 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.280 at the same speed through all media. You know, through 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.320 a vacuum, it travels at an incredible clip. It's about 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:46.800 two hundred million, seven four hundred fifty eight meters per 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.280 second or around one six thousand, two d eighty two 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.360 miles per second. That's through the vacuum of space and 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.079 solos ship. If you assume it could go half again 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.960 faster than the speed of light would have its tough 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.480 speed at somewhere around four hundred forty nine million million 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:08.200 Si eight thousand, six eighty seven per second or two 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:12.720 four hundred twenty four miles per second. That's really fast. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.520 And of course it is faster than anything we can 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.480 we we know of besides some theoretical particles that we'll 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.400 talk about in a little bit. It's faster than anything 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.839 we know of can go. That makes it really problematic 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.840 because if we just talk about parsecs and shaving off distance, 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.160 you know, okay, I can see that we still have 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.679 the problem of a parsec is a really long distance, right, Yeah, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.360 So how you know if Han Solo made the Kessel run. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.800 How long would it take him to do it, assuming 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.800 that he's traveling at around the speed of light? And yeah, yeah, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.880 I mean if you go, if you nudge right up 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.960 to the speed of light, they would take about thirty 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.680 nine years travel twelve that that would be. That would 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:59.240 be due to an independent observer though correct because special relativity. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.160 But we'll talk about that. Yeah, I don't want to 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.439 get into that right now, but special relativity will play 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.600 a part in our second part of our conversation because 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.560 also we should go ahead and say it. According to 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.960 Star Wars, and again this is a retcon type thing. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.280 All ships have a stasis field stabilizer thing that keeps time. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.280 It's the universal constant of time amongst the Empire, which 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.120 is really convenient because otherwise Han Solo would be older 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.200 than Yoda after he had taken what I don't know, 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.040 like like two or three trips yet four or five 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.240 trips on the Kestle run. But it does sound like 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.480 he's done it multiple times, which means that if he's 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.560 done the Kestle run multiple times, that special relativity problem, 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.120 which again we'll talk about in a minute just to right. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.440 So So here's here's the thing the stasis is supposed 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.360 to keep everything constant. Uh. Time is a tricky thing 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.880 because it doesn't matter that it's not just if you're 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.920 traveling nearer or at or above the speed of light, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.480 where you have to take it into account. Every single 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.840 planet that's in the entire galaxy of Star Wars has 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:04.160 time pass at a different rate according to any according 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.240 to physics. And again it's relative. So if Lauren's on 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.720 one planet and I'm on another planet, each of us 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.960 are going to feel as if time is passing at 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.800 the same speed individually, like a second will feel like 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.600 a second to me, a second will feel like a 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:22.560 second to Lauren. However, depending upon the planet's mass and 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.200 the speed at which it travels through space, the actual 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.560 passage of time is going to be different relative to 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.720 each other. So if we match our our watches up, 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.240 we'll see that they're not keeping exact synchronized time. And 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.320 again more on that and just a bit. I have 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.000 to I have to preface it because it's it makes 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:44.920 my head swim, all right. So the other element in 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.800 this Star Wars universe is this idea of hyperspace and 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.800 hyper drive, and so this is when and if you've 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.920 watched the Star Wars movies, you know, they engage the 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.560 hyperdrive and then suddenly all the stars start streaking towards 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.520 them in this beautiful display, and from from the outside 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.040 it looks like the ship just suddenly gets an enormous 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.080 speed boost, and yet no one is is slammed back 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.160 against the back of the the Millennium falcon like and 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.280 ejected into space because of the massive acceleration. That would 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.440 be a pretty pretty lame trip. It would be really 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.680 would be funny to see, like the the activation of 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.320 the first hyper drive and then you just see a 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.880 bunch of a lads just floating free in space, like well, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.640 that was a bad idea. Um that kind of this 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.240 kind of happens in far Escape. But that's for for 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.760 you kids out there. We need to make Jonathan watch that. Anyway. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.560 I've never watched it. So so it's it's not very 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.720 well defined hyperspace and in the Star Wars universe, even 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.840 in the expanded universe, all right, right, it's hyperspace is 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.920 kind of placed in contrast to real space. Yeah, you know, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.840 real space being of course what we're kind of moving 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.000 around and the chips under under normal speed constraints are 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.440 moving around it and then and then yeah, apparently these 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.520 these hypermatter reactor drives with hypermatter implosion cores. I mean 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.280 it sounds a little bit like a like a wormhole 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.200 or a test react something like. Yeah. Like again, it's 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.640 not very well explained. So some of there's like it 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.720 could be a parallel universe where you open up a 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.560 gate and you travel into a new universe, and then 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.000 you open up a second gate and you re emerge 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.920 into quote unquote our universe, the star or at least 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.800 the Star Wars universe, real space, but you are, you know, 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.840 in a different point of real space than you were 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.719 when you started. Um Or. It could be an extra 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.280 dimension in space, which is kind of like warp drive, 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.280 where you're warping space around you. It could be an 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.359 alternate mode of physical existence, which I said is kind 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.600 of like an astral plane for those of you who 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:38.280 play fantasy games where you can travel to that. Um 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:40.760 Or it could just be traveling faster than the speed 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.239 of light, and all of that is difficult to to 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.639 get your head around. Again, none of that was was 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.600 definitively set down in the movies as this is how 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:54.080 hyper drive works or hyperspace, so we have a lot 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.840 of different things to choose from and uh. And it 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.239 seems to me that a lot of the people who 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.439 write the Star Wars universe or who have tried to 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.200 explain the Star Wars universe have kind of fudged around 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:10.000 with this a lot. No one has really come out 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.680 with what is the definitive answer as to what this is? Right? Sure, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.800 and and this I used this example about about once 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.639 a week with Jonathan, but it always reminds me of 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.680 this one terrific interview that Rick Berman did about Star Trek, 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.760 specifically the uh Eisenberg uncertainty compensators and the transporters, and 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.159 someone was like, well, how did those work? And he 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.000 was like, very well, thank you, next question. Yeah. Whereas 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:34.400 you know, the holidack works very poorly, or at least 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.600 it breaks down once a year. But again, within the 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.199 lore of Star Wars, hyperspace itself is first discovered by 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.520 a race called the Ricotta, and they create ricotta like 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.760 the cheese. No, it's our A K A T A Okay, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:51.040 just checking. You gotta remember that Star Wars often the 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.440 pronunciations are exactly the same as very silly stuff here 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.560 on Earth. Funny about that, um, But anyway, they they 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:04.399 create force powered drives, so they were tapping into the 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.399 power of the force to travel through space at incredible speeds. 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:11.080 And then there I have no problem because the force 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.040 is magic, and and magic means you do not have 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.679 to explain how something works technologically. Physics is right out 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:20.440 the windows, right. Yeah, you know, it's a fairy tale. 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.399 You don't question the physics of a fairy tale, you know. 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.720 I mean if you sit there and say, well, wouldn't 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.000 prints climbing Rapunzel's hair, scalp her and leave her screaming 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.040 in pain, that doesn't make the fairy tale very much fun. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.320 Uh would have been a very short movie. Tangled would 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.080 have been very grim and not in a fairy tale 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.520 kind of Okay, anyway, I'm getting off track. But they 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.440 used the force, and I thought, oh, well, if it's 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:51.359 something that's force space, then that's except that then within 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.359 again the expanded lore. The Karelians Karelias, one of the 0:19:55.359 --> 0:20:00.520 planets in the Star Wars universe, and the Euros both 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:06.320 found these starship drives and using reverse engineering, determined how 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:10.760 they worked and created technological versions of these force driven drives. 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.360 So they use technology to replicate what the force did. 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:18.680 And uh what now, now we have a technological explanation 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.080 for how hyperspace works, except there's no actual explanation there. 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.119 It's just that it is technological. Now this is what 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.000 drives me crazy because then I'm like, okay, wait now, 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:29.880 so if there is a technical way to make it happen, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:33.480 how does it work? Um? And and really we have 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.800 more about the process than anything else. So uh. In 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:39.840 the movies, when they were going to make a jump 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:44.560 to hyperspace, they would activate the ship's navigational computer, which 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.399 would calculate whatever the route needed to be. And this 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.160 was important because, as Han Solo explains to Luke, who 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:55.200 is an impatient little brat in a New Hope, he 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.000 explains like, he can't hurry this stuff because if you do, 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.760 you pass too close to a star or a planet, 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.120 it pulls you out of hyperspace and you could die. Yeah. Yeah. Now, now, 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.840 this to me creates another problem, because if hyperspace is 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:11.520 in fact a parallel universe, why do things that exist 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.960 in our meat space affect you when you're in the 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.880 parallel universe, unless, of course, they also have a presence 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.840 in that parallel universe. I I do. I don't know, 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.159 And it sounds much more like a like a like 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:27.480 a wormhole, like like you're somehow jumping from from point 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.040 to point along kind of a like like an conveyor 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.159 belt sort of thing, which is another concept that we 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:35.200 can talk about in a minute. So so you're you're 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.800 thinking more along the lines of this parallel universe has 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:44.720 has certain anchor points to real space that it does 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.879 pass through, even if it's not a one to one ratio. 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.000 Is that kind of what you're talking about, or yeah, 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:51.800 or kind of like I don't know, like like there's 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:54.240 just certain sections of space that you can go much 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:58.720 faster through and and unfortunately, you know, sometimes as sun 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:00.920 gets in the way, so you're about like the auto 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.119