Real Scientist Examines the Science Fiction of Mass Effect

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Real Scientist Examines the Science Fiction of Mass Effect

Real Scientist Examines the Science Fiction of Mass EffectCloaking devices? Oh yeah, we can totally do that. Telekinesis? Suuure! In this video, Real Actual Scientist-mans Dr. Michio Kaku, speaking more like a futurist and less like a physicist, tackles the plausibility of what you see in Mass Effect.

I recommend getting good and high for the discussion of dark matter, although he does point out that "when you put negative matter into Einstein's equations," - i.e. divide by zero!! (!!!) - they "curl up into knots." And hedging that the big unknown it creates will be more good than bad we can get stuff like faster-than-light travel and real-time pan-galaxy communications.

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