Questions tagged [physics]
For questions about the physics of a fictional universe. Questions purely concerning real-world physics are off-topic. Always use in conjunction with the specific work tag in question.
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In Stargate why can you go only in one direction through the gate but radio signals can go both ways?
So why can people and other objects just go in the one direction while radio signals can go both ways? Is that ever explained or is it just fact?
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planetery system with two suns in K-PAX
In the movie K-PAX the character talks about his planet where there are two suns and he say that they only rise together once in many years. Wouldn't it be impossible to have one rising and the other ...
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Why and how can you hear explosions in space in Star Wars?
Considering that sound can't travel through vacuum.
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Was the Millennium Falcon too slow?
I've always been puzzled by the speeds of space craft in Star Wars. The Millennium Falcon was said to travel at "point 5 beyond the speed of light" - which I guess is 1.5c:
HAN: She'll make point ...
