The Physics of FTL Travel

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Spaceship Factories

Spaceship Factories

Learn more about the game and see it in action at upperstory.com/spintronics Use the coupon code ISAACARTHUR for 10% off your total purchase Spacecraft may one day be so common that everyone has flown on one, with thousands of new spaceships being...

McKendree Cylinder Space Habitat

McKendree Cylinder Space Habitat

A McKendree Cylinder is a continent-class space habitat design larger than a country that might house billions or an entire continent's ecosystem Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Graphics: Udo Schroeter Music Courtesy of Epidemic...

Mysterious Cosmic Explosion

Mysterious Cosmic Explosion

LFBOTs, or Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients, are strange new phenomena of massive and short lived explosions outshining even supernova. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound...

Zero Point Energy & Vacuum Energy

Zero Point Energy & Vacuum Energy

We often wonder where we might find a truly sustainable and abundant source of energy, and the answer might turn out to be in the emptiness all around us. Watch my exclusive video Dark Stars At The Beginning Of Time:...

Titan vs Ganymede: Which Is The Largest Moon?

Titan vs Ganymede: Which Is The Largest Moon?

Some moons are bigger than planets, and Titan is aptly named, long believed to be biggest moon, but should it or Ganymede around Jupiter hold that title? And where to do planets, moons, and stars begin and end? Produced, Written & Narrated by:...

Alderson Disks

Alderson Disks

The Alderson Disk is a popular but impractical megastructure that seeks to build an enormous flat planet with a Sun at its center, as an alternative to a Dyson Sphere. Produced, Written & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Courtesy of Epidemic...

Have Space Suit – Will Travel

Have Space Suit – Will Travel

Space is often called the final frontier, a place of billions and billions of worlds awaiting explorers and pioneers. But what will those journeys be like, and what gear will people need for them, and perhaps most importantly of all, what sort of...

The Great Filter – Are We Doomed or Exceptional?

The Great Filter – Are We Doomed or Exceptional?

The Fermi Paradox contemplates reasons why in so an ancient and huge Universe we don’t see enormous alien civilizations everywhere, and the Great Filters approach tries to think of reasons why life, or intelligent life, is rare. Produced, Written...