A parsec is 3.26 light years.
Isn’t that a distance, not a time?
It’s bothered me for years…
Rate of acceleration?
Well, a couple thousand parsecs at least
Omen III
(been awhile)
Not biblical but a few interesting scenes
PG at a minimum though
When confronted with that George said it was a short cut, and in the Solo movie they completed the ret-con by having the nav computer find a short cut.
But, yeah, George screwed up.
The Star Wars universe fixed that ages ago, dontcha know.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2018/05/30/solo-star-wars-story-kessel-run-12-parsecs/?sh=2d72a6c37856So Solo took a shortcut on the Kessel run, which is why he did it in less than 12 Parsecs, when everybody else did it in 18-20 Parsecs.According to Star Wars: The Essential Atlas and the Solo novels, the road to Kessel involved navigating a cluster of black holes known as 'the Maw'. This would typically take 18 parsecs -- to avoid falling into the Maw's gravity wells -- but with a sturdy ship like the Millennium Falcon and a daring captain like Han, a smuggler could skirt close to the edges of the Maw and cut the distance down to 12 parsecs.
At least this is the elaborate explanation they came up with years later to cover George Lucas' original script blunder...
“Isn’t that a distance, not a time?”
If you had been around during the time of Einstein you could have grilled him on his introduction of the concept of time as the fourth dimension, which meant that space and time were inextricably linked. And there are some facts that support it. So you might consider the two the same or opposite each other. And there’s a third player. The fabric of space can be altered, and if space and time are linked, then time can be stretched and contracted by gravity. People get paid a lot of money to come up with this stuff.
wy69
Time and space are relative
One of the books explained that. According to that book, the “Kessel run” goes through a cluster of black holes. In order to keep from getting sucked in, ships had to navigate the areas between, where the gravity from one black hole would counter the gravity from another. The faster a ship went, the more gravitational pull it could withstand, which meant being able to choose a less convoluted route.
Thus, faster ship = shorter Kessel run.
You’re right. It’s bothered me too. The script writers messed up on that one.
George Lucas was a filmmaker, not a physicist.
That line can’t be reconciled with reality ... don’t burn up your brain trying.