What Sci-Fi Gets Wrong About Lasers

How many of you knew the inverse square law of light?

To be nerdy: Phasers aren't lasers, they are a confined particle stream of something called nadion particles, which emit light when they're excited and thats why you can see the beam. Disruptors are similar except they use a different particle. In Star Trek they very explicitly use "Particle weapons" and not lasers.

Please upload more of these explainers, consistently Dr.Tyson you're literally the GOAT.

The animation of chuck looking into the light is perfect. More random animations in videos!

Love these type of facts ❤

As a filmmaker this is one of the first StarTalks I’ve watched where I already knew the physics! The light beam part is a technique that’s used in film all the time. We actually spray haze all over the set and then thin it out so that you can actually see the light beams. So any movie you’ve even see in with light beams or laser beams like that (Steven Spielberg does this a ton), that’s because they sprayed a bunch of haze before they started filming.

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for a 10 minute video, a whole lotta work sure was put into this!! 🙏

Your patience as a physicist, more so as a man, is impressive. Don't ever give up the work as an educator. The world needs it

When it’s Neil and Chuck, I can’t miss an episode.