[Critique] The Super Cool Science of Star Wars • News Guides & Beautiful Books • Star Wars Universe

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When you leaf through the book, you quickly realize that the target is the youngest (children and young teens). Well, one could imagine it with the title which makes ‘djeuns’ but hey. In short, it’s written in a big way and it can be read quite quickly.
Despite everything, I was pleasantly surprised.
Certainly, it is for the youngest but I find that the style and the content should make the kids want to know more about various fields of science.
Indeed, the author addresses themes that are not so easy at first for children such as the Fermi paradox, the colonization of a planet or even Einstein’s famous formula.
And I find that when we have to explain certain things, the author takes the time to establish the context by taking simple but telling examples, and with equally simple sentences.
We are still far from the science of the style ‘yeah I light a bulb with a lemon’.

Much of the book focuses on space, then we focus on aliens and finally technology.
Regarding space, we approach the journey between inhabited planets with the famous formula of special relativity. Speaking of inhabited planets, we ask ourselves the question ‘where are the others?’ in our own galaxy. It then appears the Fermi paradox which presents hypotheses on why we have not yet had extraterrestrial contact.
According to the author, realistically, the end of Episode VI with the explosion of the second Death Star should not be happy, because of the debris that must inevitably fall on the Ewoks and ravage their moon. .
We are also being explained why moons orbiting a planet can harbor life (and not the planet). The giant space worm seen in The Empire Strikes Back provides insight into how humans can settle on a planet in order to avoid cosmic radiation and other climatic problems on the surface of a planet or a moon then. By digging tunnels to be as safe as possible.

About aliens, we talk about Darwin who invented aliens with his story of theory of the evolution of species and environmental conditions so that life can develop.
We also talk about the elements which are the basis of life such as carbon but also why not silica.
We stop on the Drake equation which gives a statistic on the possible presence of civilized life in the galaxy. It’s quite difficult for young people but hey, the author tries to simplify things.
We linger a bit on DNA, the role of which is to replicate itself in a receptacle which, depending on living conditions, can look like anything and everything (man, gungan, hutt, etc.). In short, there is a great chance that if aliens exist in our galaxy, they also have DNA.

Technology level, the author uses what we have on hand to fly a speeder or any other repulsion device with anti gravity material or better, with dark matter, when we can detect it and especially master it. .
One wonders if the armor of the stormtrooper is practical.
Droids like BB-8 would be very useful for exploring unknown planets, like Mars for example. We also go into the less happy with the possibility of destroying a planet using a laser (and we go back to E = Mc²) or with a antimatter bomb.
We end with a few words on the development of cities in the future and on the principle of cryonics.

Here we are, we approach various and varied themes with a simple, fluid, sometimes humorous style, and the author tries to define a lot of scientific notions.
Ok, we’re just hovering over the surface of things but I think the goal of making science discover ‘a little serious’ is achieved with this book.
For adults, there is the book “The Science of Star Wars“from the same author who goes a little further on the same questions discussed here.

Supercoolement yours.

Here is the link to the SWU plug.

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