Instructional Video14:31
PBS

Is Interstellar Travel Impossible?

12th - Higher Ed
Space is pretty deadly. But is it so deadly that we’re effectively imprisoned in our solar system forever? Many have said so, but a few have actually figured it out.
Instructional Video14:32
PBS

Will Wormholes Allow Fast Interstellar Travel?

12th - Higher Ed
From Stargate to Interstellar, wormholes are our favorite method for traveling across fictional universes. But they are also a very serious field of study for some of our greatest minds over the last century. So what’s the holdup? When...
Instructional Video4:52
SciShow

Project Daedalus Our 1970s Plan for Interstellar Travel

12th - Higher Ed
Many ideas have come and gone, but Project Daedalus was a uniquely ambitious plan from the 1970s that never quite came to be.
Instructional Video11:48
Curated Video

Is Time Travel to the Past Scientifically Possible?

12th - Higher Ed
Traveling forward in time is not a problem. You're doing that now. Can we travel backward in time? There is a theoretically possible way to do it using wormholes.



One solution to general relativity...
Instructional Video11:27
Curated Video

The Alcubierre Drive: Is Warp Speed Scientifically Possible?

12th - Higher Ed
Alcubierre warp drive - faster than light travel? Is Warp speed possible? Enterprise from Star Trek can go 9000 times the speed of light. By comparison, the fastest manmade object, the Juno probe goes 0.0002 times...
Instructional Video13:59
Curated Video

Are Real Warp Drives Possible? Exploring New Scientific Proposals

12th - Higher Ed
In a recent paper published by Applied Physics, authors Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire, outline how a physically feasible warp drive could in principle, work, without the need for negative energy. I spoke to them....
Instructional Video4:00
Curated Video

The Fermi Paradox: Are We Alone in the Universe?

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The Fermi Paradox raises the question of why, despite the vast number of potentially habitable planets, we have not yet found evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. This video explores possible explanations, including the rarity...
Instructional Video4:08
Curated OER

How To Time Travel

9th - 12th
Have you ever had a learner ask you if time travel was possible? Turn them on to this clear and easy-to-understand video that explains how space and time work together and what that means in relation to time travel.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: Space Time

9th - 10th
A video series where astrophysicist Matt O'Dowd investigates the outer reaches of space. Explores topics from asteroids to gravitation waves to sci-fi!