AVI LOEB

Professor of Science

Theoretical physicist at Harvard, and the science theory director for the Breakthrough Initiatives and the Breakthrough Starshot with the aim to send a probe to our nearest star Alpha Centauri which is 4,37 lightyears away, using a laser and a light sail.

Listen to the interview

To the left you can listen to the interview with Avi Loeb about the Breakthrough Starshot project. Follow the link bellow for the full episode Can we travel at the speed of light yet? (Includes Swedish narration and interviews). In this episode we talk to Mattias Blennow, associate professor of theoretical astro particle physics at KTH, who tells us about light speed and why we cant travel that fast. We also get around to some good old fashioned rocket engines in our talks with Li Forsberg, chief engineer at GKN.

FULL EPISODE (Swedish)

"The Starshot initiative aims to send a probe to the nearest starsystem..

so we can learn from up close wether it has life there. The idea is to send the probe so it will reach there within our generation. And since the nearest star is four lightyears away, it means that it takes light four years to breach the gap between the sun and that star. So if we want the spacecraft to reach the star within lets say 20 years, it needs to move at a fifth of the speed of light."

- Avi Loeb

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