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Ender's Game | Philote

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In the Ender's Game series, philote is a particle that enables communication across the galaxy. Dr Krista Steenbergen talks to Bryan Crump about the realities of such a thing.

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© RNZ Length 24 min 3 July 2023 Season 3 Episode 1 Sci-FiScienceSpace New Zealand Episodic

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© RNZ Length 24 min 3 July 2023 Season 3 Episode 1 Sci-FiScienceSpace New Zealand Episodic

Getting to the science behind the fiction

Getting to the science behind the fiction

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In the Ender's Game series, philote is a particle that enables communication across the galaxy. Dr Krista Steenbergen talks to Bryan Crump about the realities of such a thing.

Philote, from the Ender's Game series, is a particle that can travel faster than the speed of light and enable instantaneous communication across vast distances. Bryan Crump speaks to Dr. Krista Steenbergen, Senior Lecturer of Physics in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator, to find out how plausible such a particle could be.

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