Final Forum: A Dragon Ball Podcast

Ansibles and Faster-than-Light Travel (S4E15)

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Quarks! Quantum entanglements! Relativity! Non-Einsteinian simultaneity! What do these have to do with Bulma making a phone call from Namek to Earth? Everything, it turns out.

Join Jelli and Bekinney as they continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon Dragon Ball Z by looking at episodes 46 through 50: "Defying Orders," "Namek's Defense," "The Hunted," "The Prince Fights Back," and "Unexpected Problem." Wedive into the Namek Saga and tackle the problem of faster-than-light communications and time travel.

In this episode:

  • Jelli and Bekinney are being cagey
  • Back to a solid run of episodes
  • Putting some SCIENCE into our science fiction
  • How long it SHOULD take to send a message to Namek
  • Ursula K LeGuin and her creation of the ansible
  • What is an ansible? Why is it called an ansible? How does an ansible work?
  • Robert Heinlein's (Starship Troopers) answers to how faster than light communication would work
  • Non-Einsteinian simultaneity and how early work on non-simultaneity and relativistic speeds influenced Einstein's theory of relativity
  • Lorentz transformations and Einstein's train thought experiment
  • How the term ansible and the work of Le Guin influenced people like David Langford and Orson Scott Card
  • A brief slagging of Card
  • Research done into tachyons and reverse time travel
  • The work of physicists Ben Tippet and David Tsang in the math behind reverse time travel
  • Whether changing the past changes the future
  • and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual 

    • Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise.

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