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Advanced Spaceship Drive Compendium (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Krasnacov Tube and the Hall Effect Thruster

The Krasnacov Tube is an example of a warp drive for FTL travel. Like other warp drives relies on the existence of exotic matter not experimentally shown to exist in nature and thus is classified as Clarktech. Under a standard special relativity a ship moving at near a light speed will experience far less time on a journey than those outside it will have experienced. This allows a fast enough ship to make the journey as normal but for someone to depart 9 years later in its wake and arrive at the destination when the ship does.

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