Quarks! Quantum entanglements! Relativity! Non-Einsteinian simultaneity! What do these have to do with Bulma making a phone call from Namek to Earth? Everything, it turns out.
Join Jelli and Bekinney as they continue breaking down Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon Dragon Ball Z by looking at episodes 46 through 50: "Defying Orders," "Namek's Defense," "The Hunted," "The Prince Fights Back," and "Unexpected Problem." Wedive into the Namek Saga and tackle the problem of faster-than-light communications and time travel.
In this episode:
- Jelli and Bekinney are being cagey
- Back to a solid run of episodes
- Putting some SCIENCE into our science fiction
- How long it SHOULD take to send a message to Namek
- Ursula K LeGuin and her creation of the ansible
- What is an ansible? Why is it called an ansible? How does an ansible work?
- Robert Heinlein's (Starship Troopers) answers to how faster than light communication would work
- Non-Einsteinian simultaneity and how early work on non-simultaneity and relativistic speeds influenced Einstein's theory of relativity
- Lorentz transformations and Einstein's train thought experiment
- How the term ansible and the work of Le Guin influenced people like David Langford and Orson Scott Card
- A brief slagging of Card
- Research done into tachyons and reverse time travel
- The work of physicists Ben Tippet and David Tsang in the math behind reverse time travel
- Whether changing the past changes the future
- and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual
Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise.
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