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On the one hand, this question kind of answers itself. They just are! And yet, the Star Destroyer appears to be flying, which adds a level of complication and danger […]
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In all honesty, I didn’t even think to ask physics professor Patrick Johnson about that crazy floating space iceberg we see in The Rise of Skywalker‘s final trailer, but when […]
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It’s the age-old query – which would win, Star Destroyer or mountain? Okay, maybe not so age-old, but brought to mind by a quick scene in the final trailer for […]
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It’s a question we’ve been wondering about since April, when the first Rise of Skywalker teaser debuted – how could that Death Star wreckage have landed on that moon without […]
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Back in Episode 1,233 in November 2017, I interviewed Georgetown University physics professor Patrick Johnson, author of The Physics of Star Wars. In the book (which came out six months […]
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A brand-new book from Adams Media (an imprint of Simon & Schuster), The Physics of Star Wars applies the laws of real-world physics – as we know them now – […]