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Originally Posted by Skoons
I saw it on an Australian satirical comedy show.
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Originally Posted by Skoons
I saw it on an Australian satirical comedy show.
Just cant understand one little thing. Why the star ship in the SW epidode 3 when it was attacked by havy guns and got damages, begin to move down. As I understand in the space there is very low gravity field and we cant talk there about directions like up and down, SO why it begin to "sink" when was quite far from the planet. In old one episodes I mean 4-6, all physics laws were working and now, they not.
I can only begin to imagine what a physicist would have to say about that. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Skoons
No, they weren't, and certainly not the one you refer to. I recall the Super Star Destroyer knocked out in in Ep. 6 "falls" towards Endor before colliding rather spectacularly with the Death Star and fragments of the destroyed Death Star fall onto Endor like meteors or space junk. If you are close enough to a planet (or any other spatial object with it's own gravity) you can be pulled in. This is especially true if the object being pulled no longer has some sort of propulsion system to keep it in orbit which was the case with both ships and the fragments. Granted, it probably shouldn't have happened so quickly but where's the fun in watching a disabled ship fall into a planet over the course of several hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skoons
Frankly I don't see how this breaks the laws of physics. If the ship lost the propulsion system, for a certain mass and distance to the planet's surface it could be attracted by the planet (actually it would fall on a space-time curve towards the planet).
Sunday, June 26, Discovery Channel broadcasts "The Science of Star Wars". Not sure about the hour, I believe it's 20:00 GMT (in Europe). So stay tuned.
Only in case planet rotates very slow (which invokes very long day/night cycle, which is not the case as we see the whole cycle during the movie) or station is very low on orbit, which is also not the case as we can see in the movie...Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
Guys its the movies. There is no correct science in science fiction movies, and star wars is no exception. Real world science doesn't apply here. Thata's why there is "fiction" next to "science". It's exactly the point. Of course, maybe the rules of physics were quite different in a galaxy long time ago and far, far away... (riiiiight)
Latem
Good point, because my next question would have been how could they travel at lightspeed? ;) With the current accepted laws of physics that's impossible. And even that was possbile the twins paradox should manifest.
I disagree. At least logic laws are the same. And many things, when it's not obvious, are exaclty consequences of logic basing on other facts. And such consequences must be kept. Physics isn't an exception.Quote:
Originally Posted by Latem
There is no law stating that it's impossible. Just no law confirming that it's possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
Well, to accelerate to light speed a ship, like any object, need an infinite mass. I doubt that can be achieved... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by RoboTact
Why does it have to be achieved by accelerating? It can't be done this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by cilu
Excuse me? What do you mean? When an object changes speed, it does it either by accelerating or decelerating. Acceleration is the variation of speed in time. For a ship to reach light speed starting from repause acceleration is needed. General relativity theory says an object cannot be accelerated to light speed because of the infinite mass needed.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoboTact
Do you know other way?Quote:
It can't be done this way.
Any way my friend (He looks SW movie at first, how he never saw them, I`m wondering) says that SW episode 3 was very funny espacially when he saw general droid ( always forgeting his name) which coughed all film. It was really funny :D .
General Grevious was half droid/half some alien race.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skoons