Science Fiction to Science Fact: Faster-Than-Light Space Travel

Description

Explores how advance in science and technology could theoretically allow scientists to develop travel at the speed of light.

Do you lose yourself in daydreams about invisibility cloaks, tractor beams and replicators? Do you wish that you could have been born a few hundred years later, when all of these things are a reality? This series explores the real-life science behind some of our favourite science fiction gadgets and shows how a future filled with space shuttles, solar sails and bionic limbs might be closer than you think!

Table of Contents

1. Faster-than-light: the fantasy
2. The universe is big
3. What is light?
4. We must go faster
5. Faster-than-light: the reality
6. Quantum entanglement
7. Let’s talk about space and time
8. Wormholes
9. Black holes and white holes
10. Warp drives
11. Exotic matter
12. Faster-than-light: the future
13. Time travel
14. Where would you go?
15. Glossary
16. Index