{"id":100280,"date":"2019-12-30T03:42:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T11:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/physicist-proposes-radical-new-stellar-engine-that-could-move-our-entire-solar-system"},"modified":"2019-12-30T03:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T11:42:52","slug":"physicist-proposes-radical-new-stellar-engine-that-could-move-our-entire-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/physicist-proposes-radical-new-stellar-engine-that-could-move-our-entire-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Physicist Proposes Radical New \u2018Stellar Engine\u2019 That Could Move Our Entire Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v3y8AIEX_dU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The stellar engine \u2013 a gigantic contraption built with the purpose of transporting our Solar System somewhere else, if we ever need to move to a different cosmic neighbourhood. Now, new research has put forward another idea for what such a radical stellar engine might look like. Via this beautiful video from Kurzgesagt, Caplan Thruster, would use the Sun\u2019s own energy to propel it across the galaxy and beyond.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As far as hypothetical space megastructures go, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stellar_engine\">stellar engine<\/a> is one of our favourites \u2013 a gigantic contraption built with the purpose of transporting our Solar System somewhere else, if we ever need to move to a different cosmic neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Now, new research has put forward another idea for what such a radical stellar engine might look like.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v3y8AIEX_dU\">this beautiful video from Kurzgesagt<\/a>, you can learn all about the so-called Caplan Thruster, which would use the Sun\u2019s own energy to propel it across the galaxy and beyond. It\u2019s named after the scientist who came up with the design, astrophysicist Matthew Caplan from Illinois State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stellar engine \u2013 a gigantic contraption built with the purpose of transporting our Solar System somewhere else, if we ever need to move to a different cosmic neighbourhood. Now, new research has put forward another idea for what such a radical stellar engine might look like. Via this beautiful video from Kurzgesagt, Caplan Thruster, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}