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Dr Erin Explains the Universe Podcast is the extracted audio from the YouTube series on science behind science fiction. Dr Erin has a PhD in Astrophysics and is a self-proclaimed N7 Slytherin from Sta... more
FAQs about Dr Erin Explains The Universe Podcast:How many episodes does Dr Erin Explains The Universe Podcast have?The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.
May 27, 2018TachyonsThis video does a quick introduction of Tachyons and the source of them in Star Trek. If there are other fandoms you would like me to explore Tachyons in, please let me know!...more6minPlay
May 27, 2018Multiverse - Part 2Part 2 of the two-part episode on Multiverse theory in science fiction. We're going to talk about quantum and infinite multiverses. In other words: Dan Harmon's guide to the multiverse!...more13minPlay
May 27, 2018Multiverse - Part 1Part 1 of the two-part episode on Multiverse theory in science fiction. We'll explore simulated, brane, parallel and dripping black hole multiverses! Some mild spoilers for Black Mirror - San Junipero and Stranger Things....more13minPlay
May 27, 2018Gravitational Lensing in Star Trek: DiscoveryIn this episode, we'll discuss the method they develop in Episode 9 (mid-season finale) of Star Trek: Discovery. Gravitational Lensing and Triangulation...explained! Spoilers, and please accept my apologies for the lighting in this one....more11minPlay
May 27, 2018The Kessel Run and ParsecsNo Solo Spoilers. In this video, we're going to discuss what a "parsec" actually is and what Han Solo means when he says the Millennium Falcon made the Kessel Run in "less than 12 parsecs". We'll also discuss the Legend and Canon explanations!...more11minPlay
May 27, 2018Star Wars HyperdriveNO SPOILERS for The Last Jedi - In this episode, Dr Erin gives her view of how the hyperdrive and traveling through hyperspace works in Star Wars. Recommended other videos include Spacetime, FTL Travel and Tachyons. May the Force be with you!...more11minPlay
May 27, 2018Gravitational Time DilationWe'll discuss the science of gravitational time dilation, and some of the places we see it in sci-fi. Queue geeking out over Interstellar, Star Trek: Voyager, and some ad hoc calculations of Journey to the Center of the Earth!...more12minPlay
May 26, 2018FTL Travel in Mass EffectThis episode goes into the different types of FTL travel we see in the Mass Effect video game series....more8minPlay
May 26, 2018Faster-Than-Light TravelThis video goes through some of the basic methods of faster-than-light travel (FTL travel) that we commonly see in science-fiction....more12minPlay
May 26, 2018Question - "Why is everything flat in space?"This video answers a viewer question about why solar systems and galaxies are flat discs, and what about our whole universe?...more9minPlay
FAQs about Dr Erin Explains The Universe Podcast:How many episodes does Dr Erin Explains The Universe Podcast have?The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.