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 | | In " Spaceships and Weapons" (Chapter 4), with ten topics and three essays, Cavelos considers the velocity of light, laws and principles of Newton and Einstein, fuel requirements (chemical fuels vs. nuclear fusion), matter and antimatter, hyperspace and wormholes (the latter, incidentally, suggested initially by Albert Einstein). |
 | | Topics elaborated in sections entitled "When 'Faster than A Speeding Bullet' Just Isn't Fast Enough," "When You Came in Here, Didn't You have a Plan for Getting Out?," and "The Music of the Spheres," include superstring and particle theories, and a multidimensional universe (with up to ten dimensions). |
 | | Cavelos presents us with a half dozen explanations of "Han's Boast" (e.g., the error that he "made the Kessell Run in less than 12 parsecs") - parsecs are measurement of distance, in this instance, 228 billion miles -- rather than time. |
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