From Jonathan Klotz
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Babylon 5 takes place in a future with extraterrestrials, worm holes and warlike old civilizations, but thanks to the careful work of the creator J. Michael Straczynski, it is rooted in real physics and science. Even the space station in the center of everything uses a real physics solution to colonize the space, and everything is its shape thanks to its shape. By using an O’Neill cylinder, the rotating space station of Babylon 5 remains one of the most scientifically accurate life representations in the focus of the heavy power.
The O’Neill cylinder
The O’Neill cylinder Babylon 5 The use was created by physicist Gerard O’Neill in the 1970s to live people in a deep space. By rotating 24 times an hour, the cylinder would simulate gravity on earth, but would hardly see for those within the cylinder, which prevents a widespread movement disease. Each of the cylinders turns independently into opposite directions and holds the station on the sun (or on the show of the show Epsilon Eridani).
Beyond physics behind the O’Neill cylinder, Babylon 5 I used more of Gerard’s design and brought his vision of a utopian spatial-hand-controlled society to life. Gerard imagined that his theoretical station would be completely self -sufficient, in addition to gravity, renewable energy and the ability to grow food. While the five seasons of the show destroyed by the war have proven that the utopian ideal did not make it until 2257, science did, even if the final design in the series has some differences.
Habitats for people and everything else
The original O’Neill cylinder was designed so that it is significantly larger than that in Babylon 5At 16 miles long enough to accommodate the earth population. With only five miles long and a diameter of a mile compared to Gerards 20-mile thoughts experiment, the Sci-fi The space station is much manageable. Environments in different sections were adapted to support Foreigner Species that require CO2 or methane breathing change so that people can survive in them.
J. Michael Straczynski Well thought out what life in an O’Neill cylinder would look like if he had designed the interiors of Babylon 5. For this reason, the center of the station is filled with gardens, and the outer parts are industrial, with some sections turning themselves and simulating a different gravity than the earth -like main sections. It is also the reason why there are still sections under construction and as in “shown”Gray 13 missing“A whole hidden level of the space station, since Straczynski believed that it would be in a constant state of repair, disassembly and assembly.
Real science in Babylon 5
Bringing the O’Neill cylinder to life is not the only real science that is in Babylon 5like that Jumpgates Based on the Doppler effect, why they become orange when the ships move away from them and blue when they move to them. Even the starfuries use real physics at the start and use the rotating centrifugal force of the station to pull off faster and more efficiently than most science fiction fighters. As soon as the star fire are released in space, it is shown that gravity lacks space in space, which means that a movement movement keeps moving in motion, unless it exerts an opposite force, the engines in this case.
The O’Neill cylinder may not be possible today, and it only exists in sci-fi Babylon 5 remains the best example of you, but like the Dyson area it is an exciting thought experiment for the future of humanity among the stars. It is one of the many ways like Magnum Opus by J. Michael Straczynski one of the best science fiction shows today and represents a future in which greed and suffering are still available, but there is hope for a better morning.
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