“What would students prefer: formulas, or the soundtrack of the Imperial March?” says Guy Walker, a civil engineering professor at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University. Not only has the Death Star fascinated economists and policy analysts, who have found it to be a wasteful boondoggle of galactic proportions the complexity and destructive force of the Empire's "ultimate weapon" also darkly fascinates scientists and engineers. In time for the latest movie, we run through some of the best, newest, and most unexpected ways that Star Wars has snuck into the scientific literature-as a resource for teaching, as inspiration, and as a way to advise characters from a faraway galaxy through the events of long, long ago. “If you can take some aspect of and find some legitimate science in it, there’s this twist-this a-ha!,” says Jim Kakalios, a physicist at the University of Minnesota who has championed pop culture–savvy science communication. It’s not only a labor of love it’s the galaxy’s greatest teaching tool.
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In turn, scientists have turned their gaze toward the movie universe itself, analyzing Star Wars across practically all scientific disciplines, from plasma physics to psychology and everything in between. “They kept me thinking outside the current-the ‘now’-and toward the future.” “I think there’s a lot of scientists who would say that these movies gave the mental attitude that maybe it can be done,” says Elizabeth Holm, a materials scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
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As Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the latest installment in the Star Wars saga, prepares to take us back to a galaxy far, far away, few could be more excited than the hordes of scientists and engineers whom the film series inspired.
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