if youve watch star wars 1-6, wat do you thnk are the physics concepts shown in the movie and also violations?

Question

example.. gravity, freefall.. then plz explain... tnx!

Answer 1

Let’s just say that the physics of the Star Wars universe bears only a vague resemblance to that of ours. An in-depth analysis would easily fill a book. Here are a few examples:

SOUNDS IN SPACE
Sound is a compression wave moving through a medium such as air. Space is a near-vacuum. No medium = no sound. So, we should not be hearing spaceships go “whoosh” as they fly past the camera, we should not be hearing laser guns go “zap” as they shoot at those spacecraft, and we should not hear the explosions go “boom” when the laser guns find their targets.

Some have suggested that spaceships’ computers in the Star Wars universe are programmed to create sounds so as to give pilots auditory clues as to what’s going on around them. This actually makes a lot of sense, but it doesn’t explain why we, the viewers, can hear these things.

EXPLOSIONS IN SPACE
It’s not entirely clear what the various spacecraft use for fuel in the Star Wars universe, but some of them presumably use chemical propellants, complete with oxidants. Since there’s no oxygen available in the vacuum of space, you need to supply your own. The ships must contain oxygen for their occupants to breathe. Also, fire requires oxygen to burn. Typically, when a Star Wars ship is hit, it explodes and burns brightly for several seconds. In reality, the available oxygen would be used up almost instantly, and the fireballs would be snuffed out almost immediately. Instead of a brightly-burning fireball, you’d probably see a brief flash followed by pieces of the ship flying off in all directions.

While we’re on the subject, why do the explosions typically come to a relative stop? If a spaceship has velocity “X” at the moment it’s hit by enemy fire, the explosion (which is simply the pieces of the spaceship) will have – as a whole – exactly the same velocity as the spaceship did at the moment of its destruction. In other words, the explosion will continue to move forward at the same speed the spaceship was traveling at the moment of its destruction.

LASERS
Characters occasionally refer to both shipboard weapons and sidearms as “lasers” in the Star Wars movies. Whatever else they may be, they definitely are not lasers, though. A laser beam is a beam of coherent light. In a vacuum, a laser beam is invisible, since there are no particles to scatter the beam and make it visible. It’s typically invisible in air too, unless there is smoke, fog, or dust in the air to scatter the beam. The “laser” beams in Star Wars would not be visible if they were actually lasers. The only person who would be able to see a laser beam is the unfortunate sod at the receiving end – and he wouldn’t see it for very long.

Light moves at the insane speed of 186,282 miles/second in a vacuum. Whatever those things are that are being fired from the “laser” guns in the Star Wars movies, they’re moving a lot slower than this!

Laser guns would have no recoil, unlike the guns in the Star Wars movies. Long story short: the ship-mounted guns and the personal blasters we see in the Star Wars movies are most-definitely not laser guns. Or if they are, lasers don’t behave the same way in the Star Wars universe that they do in ours.


HYPERSPACE AND HYPERFRICES
Space is big really big! The fastest rockets we have built would take thousands of years to make it to the next-nearest star. Even if you could somehow build a spaceship that travels at the speed of light (you couldn’t – according to Einstein, it would require literally an infinite amount of energy to accelerate any material object to lightspeed), it would still take more than 4 years (as measured from Earth) for it to reach the next-nearest star. Clearly, we need some way around this. Star Wars would be a lot less exciting if it took the Millennium Falcon 10,000 years to travel from Tatooine to Alderaan!

So, I have no problems with inventing “hyperspace” where the normal laws of physics that restrict ships’ speeds to less-than-lightspeed apparently don’t apply and “hyperdrives” that somehow allow ships to enter hyperspace. I have no idea what “point-5 beyond lightspeed” is supposed to mean, though!

Answer 2

You shouldn't watch Star Wars from 1-6. If you wish to best enjoy the series you should watch the original trilogy (ep 4-6) then watch the new trilogy (ep 1-3). Episodes 1-3 are prequels. This means that they are best viewed AFTER the originals.

Answer 3

Well, the ONE I remember most was what my Dad told me after seeing Episode IV (when it was called STAR WARS ).

" ONE thing wrong, " Dad said (he was an engineer) "There's no sound in a vacuum, and space is a vacuum !!"

You WOULD hear your own spacecraft's noise inside the craft... the metal/plastic would conduct the sound. BUT when you see spaceships fly by.. there would be no noise !!

But it was great... rare for Dad to NOT rip a movie apart for technical errors ;))

Answer 4

Well for one thing there would be no noise made by spacecraft in space.

I like the idea of hover cars, like Luke's speeder, I reckon they are physically possible in a few years / decades.