About This Video

Sound doesn’t travel in space. Blood clumps into spherical balls in microgravity. Transporters defy the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. And you can’t travel faster than light. Or can you? Physicist Lawrence Krauss, author of The Physics of Star Trek, discusses which aspects of physics the writers of Star Trek get right and which ones they get wrong. 

Recorded June 2010; Posted October 2010