February 20th 2025, 8pm GMT/ 3pm EST “Power generation and warp drive”
Douglas Johnston
Douglas Johnston is a manufacturing technician at Oxford Instruments in the UK. He has a background in physics with renewable energy science and has carried out academic research on Galian Arsenide solar panels, which are often used on satellites. He has been a Star Trek fan ever since watching Enterprise with his dad as a child, and has fallen in love with the many shows and films since.
In his talk, “Power generation and warp drive”, he will discuss Star Trek’s fictional engines in relation to real life fusion and matter/antimatter physics, as well as taking a look at the Alcubierre drive – a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel.
February 20th 2025, 8pm GMT/ 3pm EST
“Power generation and warp drive”
Douglas Johnston
Douglas Johnston is a manufacturing technician at Oxford Instruments in the UK. He has a background in physics with renewable energy science and has carried out academic research on Galian Arsenide solar panels, which are often used on satellites. He has been a Star Trek fan ever since watching Enterprise with his dad as a child, and has fallen in love with the many shows and films since.
In his talk, “Power generation and warp drive”, he will discuss Star Trek’s fictional engines in relation to real life fusion and matter/antimatter physics, as well as taking a look at the Alcubierre drive – a speculative warp drive idea according to which a spacecraft could achieve apparent faster-than-light travel.
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