If it stops working, then the entire universe collapses - the laws of physics change, almost all the changes would make the universe near instantaneously collapse Forget the speed of light, one of the things that can change is the speed of light - and in most systems it might be infinite ...
The Soviets used to get angry at American War doctrine because our officers didn’t use it…to give you an idea of how powerful just being sort of United, sort of incoherent, but totally willing to fight is.
@@NewPaulActs17Futurama moved the universe around the ship and the professor only did it because he was having a fever dream. Now he can’t remember lol
We have an alternative- a warp drive that tears a hole into reality and propels the ship through hell. Praise the Omnissiah, you might even arrive at your destination before you were born.
Alien: What did Carl mean by Universe Deletion? Human: when we turn this drive on there is a possibility that the Universe will be deleted. Alien: 😨 how possible? Human: chances are near Zero. Alien: NEAR Zero? Human: What do you want with theory alone? Alien: ZERO, would be nice!
At least they don't say "Well, according to the multiverse theory every time you enter our FTL dimensions split and in one Universe you reach your destination and in the other the Universe is deleted. Considering we are still here, it means it worked flawlessly."
Humanity’s technological creative output is incredible. Sometimes it’s incredibly good and universe-shattering in a positive way. Sometimes, it’s incredibly bad and universe-shattering in a negative way. Either way, we can’t stop them. We just have to hope we can survive them.
@@Echotracers That just reminds me of The Prestige. You don't know whether you ended up as the man in the box but either way A you made it to the destination flawlessly.
To be fair, we're the ones that built a positive energy feedback loop powerful enough to shift + delete existence. ... _I'm not disagreeing, i'm just saying that really who's the worse of the two risk takers here? :)_
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Nope. Vacuum decay would be a literal universe ending event. A wave of non-existence would spread out at lightspeed, deleting everything in its way, until it hit the edge of the universe.
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Nope the entire universe eventually. A true vacuum is the global minimum energy state where as the false vacuum is only a local minimum. When a false vacuum is exposed to a true vacuum is jumps to the lower energy state and in said state there is no guarantee that the physical laws are conductive to the universes continued existence. If the false vacuum comes in contact with true vacuum it will the turned into true vacuum and this will propagate at the speed of light spreading through the entire false vacuum.
For as much as humanity in HFY stories has a reputation for being brash and reckless, the moment it was mentioned that wormhole drives have a 75% success rate, I thought "There's no way that's safe enough for humanity." Air travel is generally considered the safest way to get anywhere, and it's *still* not safe enough for a considerable number of people.
Technically speaking planes are really not as safe as often claimed. On a mile to mile basis, your chances of being in a plane/car crash are roughly the same. Consider that 93% of car crashes are due to driver error vs 88% for pilots. Also, consider that pilots tend to be blamed whenever the airline can get away with it. In a world with no driver/pilot error, flying would increase your chances of being in a crash by 71% minimum. It goes without saying that it would more likely be lethal too.
@@830927mjki many years ago (long before air travel was as safe as it is today) when there was an attempt to require “baby seats” and parents to buy additional seat for an infant, economists rightly were up in arms and quickly able to explain why we should put a stop to it. To avoid the expense of an additional seat some percentage of young parents will choose to drive hundreds of miles to avoid a short flight the price of just increased by 50% for the third seat. And of those fraction of travelers who choose to drive, some percent will be in an accident, some percent of would result in fatalities… And so a safety policy would result in more deaths.
So basically they set up a bubble where they divide by zero and focus the energy of the contradiction forward. If the focus breaks then the entire universe inverts. Sure sounds human.
To be fair our current method of space flight is to make huge explosions aimed downward and hope that we are able to get out of the atmosphere fast enough that we don't fall back down.
@@adamloga3788 Future forms of space travel might become controlled nuclear detonations aimed at where you don't want to go. ... Just, to drive that point home even harder. :)
Vacuum Decay? That's insane. The idea of Vacuum Decay is that the entire universe sits at and around a stable local miminum energy level. However, this energy level is only a local minimum, and lower levels are possible if you were to escape this local area. (Think an oceanic trench, a small one sitting next to the deepest one. It takes a lot of effort/energy to escape the small trench, such that it has never happened anywhere in the universe before. But, if you did escape it you could than fall down into the much deeper trench) From this premise, Vacuum Decay itself start when some part of the universe manages to escape this local minimum. It falls out into the much deeper minimum beyond, and a LOT of energy is released by this, so much so that jumps even more space out of the local minima. This continues to happen, spreading out in a sphere expanding at the speed of light, and any matter caught in it is annihilated by the sheer amount of energy being released.
@@wendigo7176It's the idea that, while many of the universe defining fields that make up the rules of reality are at their lowest energy levels, as is the tendency of all systems in the universe, some in their current state might not be - a false vacuum as it's called. From a ball on a hill wanting to roll down it, to quantum mechanics, everything wants to be at its lowest energy level. For instance, the Higgs field created by the Higgs-Boson that gives objects the concept of mass might not be in its lowest energy state, and that anything such as quantum tunneling somewhere could allow it to crash down into that lower energy state. The result would be a light speed sphere of death and destruction, as a single particle experiencing this impresses on all around it, causing them to tip as well, creating what is essentially a bubble with completely different different physics than our own, given that without the higgs in its current state, mass is no longer a possibility. Basically, what humanity are doing here are messing with the states of physics to give themselves a train tunnel where traditional rules of the universe no longer apply, where there's no limit to the speed of mass or light. The only problem is, if any of their train-tracks fail to keep it contained, it all spills out at light speed and scrubs reality from existence.
>Reach space >Build Space Highways >Contact aliens with FTL technologies >Use said technologies to build Extra Space Highways >Refuse to elaborate >Leaves (using the Extra Space Highway 359)
"as with much of human theory we have no idea what they're attempting to explain" reminds me so much of SFDebris' running gag about the "magic meeting room" on Voyager and I love the idea that a HFY story would place _that_ as the greater property of man: the ability to create an analogy describing the universe and the current problems at hand in simple terms, present a way-too-literal solution to the analogized problem, then work backwards from that overly literal solution to something more performable in reality.
“Yeah this thing is good it… (long speech about it’s benefits), and oh btw, it’ll also delete the universe if it does fail somehow. So yeah, pretty neat system I’d say”
Would also be the ultimate deterrent defense. Who's going to go to war with humans when an explosion in the wrong place could potentially delete the universe and even if you could avoid that winning too hard could lead to them setting one off themselves.
Actually, it's worse than that. The universe will be deleted at the speed of light, presumably from the point of origin where something went wrong with the highway. You'd have an ever-expanding sphere of nothingness overtaking the universe. There's nothing to say that they might not already have started a few of those spheres, while experimenting with this drive.
The only way to know would be that FTL ship scheduled to leave the deletion bubble will never show up at their destination. It might take a few years to find out, but eventually everyone will know that the galaxy will be gone in a hundred thousand years. If you can jump to the next galaxy, that will by you another million, and life goes on with civilization just dealing with the fact that it has to outrun the shock front. At some point, you have to ask is billions of years of tech advances will let you escape entirely.
@@TharWerefolk Forget the speed of light, it will change from a false vacuum to a true vacuum, near instantaneously, the entire universe collapse in a few microseconds or less
Reminds me of the Trinity bet: "I setting off this Atomic Bomb safe?" "Well, there is a 99.5% chance that it'll just explode." "... What's the 0.5%?" "The chance it'll set off a nuclear chain reaction in the atmosphere that will engulf the entire planet in a sea of fire and wipe out all life as we know it, likely permanently." _"... what. 0_0"_ "Don't worry, it's a small chance. Minuscule really, nothing to worry about. :)"
I hope, I really hope people are aware of the context. Because I kinda doubt that a Hollywood Movie would remove the drama. "By the time Enrico Fermi jokingly took bets among his Los Alamos colleagues on whether the July 16, 1945, Trinity test would wipe out all earthbound life, physicists already knew of the impossibility of setting the atmosphere on fire, according to a 1991 interview with Hans Bethe published by Scientific American." Zero would be indeed good.
That is the safety percentage of each trip, given that the entire system works. The aliens are baulking at the probability that the system can fail. At least they won't try to battle it out with humans for the control of it, given they could end the universe.
Each journey is 100% safe, you always arrive, intact and undamaged - you are travelling in a true vacuum, there is literally nothing to hit ... The system is extremely safe, but there is a very small possibility of a failure in the system, which would collapse the entire universe in a microsecond (or less)
Vacuum decay is actually a thing. Kurzgesagt did a video on this subject once IIRC. If that actually would happen one day it'd be horrific. And if it has yet begun, we'll not know until it's to late.
...yay, that's honestly something we would do, isn't it. Let's use the universe destroying tech because it gets us something faster. Why, because it's convenient until it isn't.
well, for all we knew, the first nuke "could or not do a chain reaction incinerating the atmosphere and thus, the planet, in a ball of fire" so it may or may not occur, i guess, we will never know until tested
Fun story, but those were just a few cranks who could not show any math to support their emotional reactions. The Army even considered doing an underground test if they could show it even theoretically possible, but nobody had the homework. Anxiety disorders are hardly new.
The FTL brought to you by the ACME Corporation. It works perfectly 100% of the time when used properly... Unless you have a genius level, no, a "Super Genius" level sentient Coyote who's is bound and determined to catch a specific sentient Roadrunner... Who is a bit of a menace to Galactic Authority.
Attention please people of Zarlax 3, this is Nigel Carrington of the hyperspatial planning council. As you are probably aware, plans for the development of the outlying regions of galaxy involve the building of a hyperspace express route through your star system and, unfortunately, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Pentarcs. Thank you
Odds are, it's ALWAYS gone wrong, but always goes right from the perspective of the humans who ride the FTL, working as a kind of prune. The excess energy is a result of accessing energy from destroyed universes, or a destroyed universe that hasn't happened yet. In short, it either gets you there, or it doesn't. As you are outside space time and thus an observer, you observe yourself reaching your destination safely, and thus from your perspective, it worked! Meanwhile, in your original universe, everything was unraveled. The alien speaking is merely in a perspective state of currently existing in the "edge" where against all odds, it's always worked. The humans who run it either believe it'll always work, or are aware that it doesn't but view the fates of "other worlds" as being inconsequential as long as it means there's one universe where Mankind's got free rides to everywhere.
Of course the universe is annihilated when the drive is activated...how else would it work? A new universe is created in which your star-ship arrives safely at it's destination. The new 'verse is the same as the old one, with the exception of your ships position in space. Speed of light? Wormholes? Poppycock!
This is a pretty terrifying FTL drive, I mostly understood the implications of the whole process described. Edit also, the "risk" of this drive is just as present with one as with billions. The main risk was in building the first node, with infinite energy powering the shields... further risk is entirely on the maintenance crews not the new constructions
I'm reminded of Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan. Similar thing, a more stable vacuum was accidentally created and proceeded to expand through the universe, destroying everything as it did. Good book.
Look, it's really simple, there are infinite parallel universes. The energy we're "creating" with our synthetic false vacuum decay in this universe comes from the very real false vacuum decay of a parallel universe. On one hand, we're hoping that universe is unpopulated. On the other, we're hoping if it is populated, it's populated by someone doing the same thing we are.
No worries about universe deletion. The expansion of the universe ensures the corridors can never cascade outwards fast enough. Ofcourse, if the universe reverses expanding at one point in time, it WILL delete the universe, though only a Planck second earlier than without the corridors. Which is not a lot of time, but for practical purposes is half the duration...
Beats our first attempts with the Event Horizon process. I mean a trip though a mind shattering hell which also brings your ship to demonic quasi life was pretty hard core, even for humans.
Kugelblitz (German for "ball lightning"). is a theoretical astrophysical object predicted by general relativity. It is a concentration of heat, light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped. In other words, if enough radiation is aimed into a region of space, the concentration of energy can warp spacetime so much that it creates a black hole.
I was waiting for a Douglas Adams quote to the effect that. it was their own damned fault because plans for the hyperspace expressway have been on display at the local planning office for the last 50 years and if they can't be bothered, the Vogons certainly couldn't. I can see Humans as the new Vogons.
I think I get the science. What humanity is doing is making a galactic train tunnel through space, inside which they use vast amounts of power to mess with the physics defining fields that make up reality such as the Higgs-Boson that define the concepts of an object's mass. Without mass, there's no limit to the speed of light nor any resistance to inertia, so any amount of energy results in pretty much infinite velocity along these space highways. The only problem is that, without containment, the phenomenon known as vacuum decay that the humans are using is basically contagious to any space around it, and any loss of containment, even a single particle, would result in a light speed bubble of annihilation scrubbing the laws of physics off the face of the universe.
Scientist : "It is completely safe to use!" Also Scientist : "If safety is not met, then say good bye to everything in the near visinity of what we created!"
Look, don't worry if something goes wrong it will only be SOL speed universal destruction. That's plenty of time to either figure something out or find another galaxy!
Ah yes, as if the realization that what we think of as nothingness- vacuum -is just a local minima in the string state, rather than the absolute minima wasn't horrifying enough; let's intentionally induce false vacuum decay in a region of space, annihilating the concept of space-time, and thus the concept of the speed of light so space ship can go zoooooom. Just gotta hope those beacons which somehow maintain the false vacuum state of our reality are up to snuff. One slip up in QC and the whole universe is going to discover what/when came before/is behind the big bang; of course, there won't be nothing to exist the concept of irritation, but I'm sure if -thing could've, it would. (Ps, assuming we can discover more supporting evidence for string theory, this is a VERY real possibility. Sleep well!)
terrains always coming up with the most insane bs ever, that makes no sense to anyone, even if the terrains fully understand the workings behind their insane tech
I suppose the trick would be to keep the universe destroying collapse right on the event horizon of the kugelblitz. If right on the edge it's lightspeed expansion would leave a lot of this collapsing universe energy available to harvest. Note: This only works in sci fi physics. In regular old physics a tiny black hole such as one made by even a Dyson spheres worth of energy kugelblitz would disappear in a deadly flash of gamma radiation as Hawking radiation finished it off. Leaving our collapsing Universe free to destroy every part of the universe which we currently have causal relationship with. (So most of the currently observable universe is safe.)
Reminds me a bit of the FTL drives from Halo... that quite literally rip a hole in space to travel through, or even the game Elite Dangerous where capital ships do just that... rip a hole into space and travel through it, bring parts of witchspace/subspace with them on reentry... and where the force is so strong it vibrates nearby ships producing an eerie sound. th-cam.com/video/G7f0eOelopI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=axqkh927siPBU5oC&t=13
Does not seem like it matters where the lanes are built then does it? At least 100% safe so far. It is like medication side effects and that 1 in a million odds of the getting the worst one.
Beware of humans and words (Cro) croatoan last words of lost group of people never found or seen again human thought it would be fun to travel near speed of light extra steps beware of "whoops!" (other words) followed by the end of reality and Universe or multiverse
This post was a bit childishly written. I like them better when the writing sounds more profound or mature. More professional sounding 'explanations' would add to the quality.
If the ships can survive within the decayed vacuum of the ftl "tunnel", the claim that the universe would be deleted doesn't make sense, as clearly they'd be able to restrain the vacuum decay at a further point.
The perfect human system. It works until it doesn’t but once it doesn’t there won’t be anyone to say anything about it
When it stops working a new Big Bang occurs.
more like "Big Blank" in this case @@ehsnils
And when it does the reaction would be ooopzz. 😂
If it stops working, then the entire universe collapses - the laws of physics change, almost all the changes would make the universe near instantaneously collapse
Forget the speed of light, one of the things that can change is the speed of light - and in most systems it might be infinite ...
The Soviets used to get angry at American War doctrine because our officers didn’t use it…to give you an idea of how powerful just being sort of United, sort of incoherent, but totally willing to fight is.
- How your FTL engines work?
- We don't use FTL. We just change the speed of light.
- That doesn't make sense!!
- Indeed.
Technically, not against the laws of physics. 😅
futurama did it!
@@NewPaulActs17Futurama moved the universe around the ship and the professor only did it because he was having a fever dream. Now he can’t remember lol
@@pheonixblue01 also impossible
@@NewPaulActs17 good news everyone!
Professor farnsworth is totally an outer god causing chaos for fun.
We have an alternative- a warp drive that tears a hole into reality and propels the ship through hell. Praise the Omnissiah, you might even arrive at your destination before you were born.
It is by the God Emperor's light that we find our way. Praise be the Omnissiah.
I can see the Astranomican we are good.
ah yes the cthulhu drive
I'm still curious how nobody has yet ended up arriving before the Horus heresy and preventing it.
Why not just use The Infinite Improbability Drive?
Alien: What did Carl mean by Universe Deletion?
Human: when we turn this drive on there is a possibility that the Universe will be deleted.
Alien: 😨 how possible?
Human: chances are near Zero.
Alien: NEAR Zero?
Human: What do you want with theory alone?
Alien: ZERO, would be nice!
At least they don't say
"Well, according to the multiverse theory every time you enter our FTL dimensions split and in one Universe you reach your destination and in the other the Universe is deleted. Considering we are still here, it means it worked flawlessly."
Humanity’s technological creative output is incredible.
Sometimes it’s incredibly good and universe-shattering in a positive way.
Sometimes, it’s incredibly bad and universe-shattering in a negative way.
Either way, we can’t stop them.
We just have to hope we can survive them.
@@Echotracers That just reminds me of The Prestige. You don't know whether you ended up as the man in the box but either way A you made it to the destination flawlessly.
@@EchotracersI think you just explained where all that extra energy comes from.
The idea that a FTL capable species doesn't know what the concept of Vacuum Decay is kind of terrifies me.
I was about to say the same thing; it's absolutely terrifying!
To be fair, we're the ones that built a positive energy feedback loop powerful enough to shift + delete existence.
...
_I'm not disagreeing, i'm just saying that really who's the worse of the two risk takers here? :)_
These aliens really need to catch up on ftl thermodynamic reality deletion theory.
I wonder if the artificial vacuum uscks in all sub particles and extracts the energy from them creating the positive loop?
"this step prevents complete annihilation of surrounding universe" It does WHAT now!?
Its likely complete annihilation of the surrounding area withing perhaps a couple lightyears. Not actually the entire universe.
Vacuum decay would actually delete the entire universe not just a part of it
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Nope. Vacuum decay would be a literal universe ending event. A wave of non-existence would spread out at lightspeed, deleting everything in its way, until it hit the edge of the universe.
and we all know how much people love to circumvent safety measures....
@@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent Nope the entire universe eventually. A true vacuum is the global minimum energy state where as the false vacuum is only a local minimum. When a false vacuum is exposed to a true vacuum is jumps to the lower energy state and in said state there is no guarantee that the physical laws are conductive to the universes continued existence. If the false vacuum comes in contact with true vacuum it will the turned into true vacuum and this will propagate at the speed of light spreading through the entire false vacuum.
For as much as humanity in HFY stories has a reputation for being brash and reckless, the moment it was mentioned that wormhole drives have a 75% success rate, I thought "There's no way that's safe enough for humanity."
Air travel is generally considered the safest way to get anywhere, and it's *still* not safe enough for a considerable number of people.
Fuck can u imagine if 1/4 planes crashed lol?
Does failure mean sinply not going anywhere and having to try again? Or suffering the fate of Event Horizon? Big difference.
Technically speaking planes are really not as safe as often claimed.
On a mile to mile basis, your chances of being in a plane/car crash are roughly the same.
Consider that 93% of car crashes are due to driver error vs 88% for pilots.
Also, consider that pilots tend to be blamed whenever the airline can get away with it.
In a world with no driver/pilot error, flying would increase your chances of being in a crash by 71% minimum.
It goes without saying that it would more likely be lethal too.
@@830927mjki many years ago (long before air travel was as safe as it is today) when there was an attempt to require “baby seats” and parents to buy additional seat for an infant, economists rightly were up in arms and quickly able to explain why we should put a stop to it. To avoid the expense of an additional seat some percentage of young parents will choose to drive hundreds of miles to avoid a short flight the price of just increased by 50% for the third seat. And of those fraction of travelers who choose to drive, some percent will be in an accident, some percent of would result in fatalities…
And so a safety policy would result in more deaths.
@@830927mjkinot all planes/airlines have the same incident rates.
This is 100% how humanity will do everything.
No guts, no glory.
As soon as i heard "false vacuum" after wondering what they meant by "true vacuum", i finally realized exactly how insane that idea was
please explain to my monkey brain
You never want to hear the phrase "False Vacuum decay", horrifying but perfectly human XD.
Experimental Evidence of a Phenomenon That May End The Universe - False Vacuum Decay
So basically they set up a bubble where they divide by zero and focus the energy of the contradiction forward. If the focus breaks then the entire universe inverts. Sure sounds human.
To be fair our current method of space flight is to make huge explosions aimed downward and hope that we are able to get out of the atmosphere fast enough that we don't fall back down.
@@adamloga3788 the math says we should be fine, that's enough for me
@@adamloga3788 Future forms of space travel might become controlled nuclear detonations aimed at where you don't want to go. ... Just, to drive that point home even harder. :)
@@VolvithActually it would be aimed at where you don't want to go, so the counter-force pushes you where you want to go.
Vacuum Decay? That's insane.
The idea of Vacuum Decay is that the entire universe sits at and around a stable local miminum energy level. However, this energy level is only a local minimum, and lower levels are possible if you were to escape this local area. (Think an oceanic trench, a small one sitting next to the deepest one. It takes a lot of effort/energy to escape the small trench, such that it has never happened anywhere in the universe before. But, if you did escape it you could than fall down into the much deeper trench)
From this premise, Vacuum Decay itself start when some part of the universe manages to escape this local minimum. It falls out into the much deeper minimum beyond, and a LOT of energy is released by this, so much so that jumps even more space out of the local minima. This continues to happen, spreading out in a sphere expanding at the speed of light, and any matter caught in it is annihilated by the sheer amount of energy being released.
thanks for explaining. Very intersting
so its like fission but for space-time?
@@wendigo7176It's the idea that, while many of the universe defining fields that make up the rules of reality are at their lowest energy levels, as is the tendency of all systems in the universe, some in their current state might not be - a false vacuum as it's called. From a ball on a hill wanting to roll down it, to quantum mechanics, everything wants to be at its lowest energy level.
For instance, the Higgs field created by the Higgs-Boson that gives objects the concept of mass might not be in its lowest energy state, and that anything such as quantum tunneling somewhere could allow it to crash down into that lower energy state. The result would be a light speed sphere of death and destruction, as a single particle experiencing this impresses on all around it, causing them to tip as well, creating what is essentially a bubble with completely different different physics than our own, given that without the higgs in its current state, mass is no longer a possibility.
Basically, what humanity are doing here are messing with the states of physics to give themselves a train tunnel where traditional rules of the universe no longer apply, where there's no limit to the speed of mass or light. The only problem is, if any of their train-tracks fail to keep it contained, it all spills out at light speed and scrubs reality from existence.
Yes^
>Reach space
>Build Space Highways
>Contact aliens with FTL technologies
>Use said technologies to build Extra Space Highways
>Refuse to elaborate
>Leaves (using the Extra Space Highway 359)
"as with much of human theory we have no idea what they're attempting to explain"
reminds me so much of SFDebris' running gag about the "magic meeting room" on Voyager and I love the idea that a HFY story would place _that_ as the greater property of man: the ability to create an analogy describing the universe and the current problems at hand in simple terms, present a way-too-literal solution to the analogized problem, then work backwards from that overly literal solution to something more performable in reality.
“Yeah this thing is good it… (long speech about it’s benefits), and oh btw, it’ll also delete the universe if it does fail somehow. So yeah, pretty neat system I’d say”
Would also be the ultimate deterrent defense. Who's going to go to war with humans when an explosion in the wrong place could potentially delete the universe and even if you could avoid that winning too hard could lead to them setting one off themselves.
At least if it goes wrong, not very likely, nobody will know about it, in a millisecond the whole of everything will cease to exist.
Actually, it's worse than that. The universe will be deleted at the speed of light, presumably from the point of origin where something went wrong with the highway. You'd have an ever-expanding sphere of nothingness overtaking the universe.
There's nothing to say that they might not already have started a few of those spheres, while experimenting with this drive.
The only way to know would be that FTL ship scheduled to leave the deletion bubble will never show up at their destination. It might take a few years to find out, but eventually everyone will know that the galaxy will be gone in a hundred thousand years. If you can jump to the next galaxy, that will by you another million, and life goes on with civilization just dealing with the fact that it has to outrun the shock front. At some point, you have to ask is billions of years of tech advances will let you escape entirely.
@@TharWerefolk Forget the speed of light, it will change from a false vacuum to a true vacuum, near instantaneously, the entire universe collapse in a few microseconds or less
@@davidioanhedges yep so theres no point worrying about it
@@davidioanhedges A (realistic) vacuum metastability event would propagate at (nearly) the speed of light.
Aliens: How exactly does this infinite speed work.
Humans: Damned if I know.
"Well, we just go to plaid and that's good enough."
"Plaid?"
(Nods)
Aliens: "How does this work?"
Humans: "Well, I enter the coordinates, hit start, and then it goes _zwoop_ and we're there."
The "perfected" long distance blink drive
They dodged a bullet, they don't want to sit in traffic honking their ship horn like us humans.
Reminds me of the Trinity bet: "I setting off this Atomic Bomb safe?"
"Well, there is a 99.5% chance that it'll just explode."
"... What's the 0.5%?"
"The chance it'll set off a nuclear chain reaction in the atmosphere that will engulf the entire planet in a sea of fire and wipe out all life as we know it, likely permanently."
_"... what. 0_0"_
"Don't worry, it's a small chance. Minuscule really, nothing to worry about. :)"
I hope, I really hope people are aware of the context. Because I kinda doubt that a Hollywood Movie would remove the drama.
"By the time Enrico Fermi jokingly took bets among his Los Alamos colleagues on whether the July 16, 1945, Trinity test would wipe out all earthbound life, physicists already knew of the impossibility of setting the atmosphere on fire, according to a 1991 interview with Hans Bethe published by Scientific American."
Zero would be indeed good.
The aliens just don't understand what 100% is. If it were 999.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999...%, then I'd worry.
That is the safety percentage of each trip, given that the entire system works. The aliens are baulking at the probability that the system can fail. At least they won't try to battle it out with humans for the control of it, given they could end the universe.
Each journey is 100% safe, you always arrive, intact and undamaged - you are travelling in a true vacuum, there is literally nothing to hit ...
The system is extremely safe, but there is a very small possibility of a failure in the system, which would collapse the entire universe in a microsecond (or less)
So if 1 ship enters and 9.999999 ships appear at the other end you know sure as hell humans will exploit that duplication glitch.
Yeah, vacuum decay as an FTL. Good plan.
Humans: Tensor dynamics, meet Gellar Field.
Aliens: STOP!
Humans: It's fine, once the tachyon particles align it's smooth sailing; like a sub-space laminar flow.
Aliens: [faints]
Vacuum decay is actually a thing. Kurzgesagt did a video on this subject once IIRC. If that actually would happen one day it'd be horrific. And if it has yet begun, we'll not know until it's to late.
...yay, that's honestly something we would do, isn't it. Let's use the universe destroying tech because it gets us something faster. Why, because it's convenient until it isn't.
And when it isn't there won't be anybody around to care because there won't be anything around.
Hello? Human FTL department? Yes, my not-a-doomsday-cult would like to know more about your technology.
well, for all we knew, the first nuke "could or not do a chain reaction incinerating the atmosphere and thus, the planet, in a ball of fire"
so it may or may not occur, i guess, we will never know until tested
Fun story, but those were just a few cranks who could not show any math to support their emotional reactions. The Army even considered doing an underground test if they could show it even theoretically possible, but nobody had the homework. Anxiety disorders are hardly new.
The FTL brought to you by the ACME Corporation.
It works perfectly 100% of the time when used properly... Unless you have a genius level, no, a "Super Genius" level sentient Coyote who's is bound and determined to catch a specific sentient Roadrunner... Who is a bit of a menace to Galactic Authority.
Plot twist: he still couldn't catch the roadrunner.
@@nasis18 to be fair- he went so fast he ended up colliding with his grandfather- while he was trying to catch the roadrunner's grandfather.
@crazyabe4571 that's a whole level of paradox I'm not even gonna try to wrap my head around.
Fuck I enjoy the Occasional Dose of Technobabble . Great Short !
Technically not technobabble. True vacum is a thing that is theoretically possible
@@tomtexas4897 . OH WHAT FUN !
More Technobabble to REFUTE the Other Technobabble . PERFECT .
@johncunningham4820 . They're real concepts. You're already using TH-cam, you can use a search engine to find out more.
"Worrying everyone but the humans." Excellent!
If the background story was Warhammer 40K, you would think the author was describing an Ork invention.
Attention please people of Zarlax 3, this is Nigel Carrington of the hyperspatial planning council.
As you are probably aware, plans for the development of the outlying regions of galaxy involve the building of a hyperspace express route through your star system and, unfortunately, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your Pentarcs. Thank you
"In this universe we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
Odds are, it's ALWAYS gone wrong, but always goes right from the perspective of the humans who ride the FTL, working as a kind of prune. The excess energy is a result of accessing energy from destroyed universes, or a destroyed universe that hasn't happened yet. In short, it either gets you there, or it doesn't. As you are outside space time and thus an observer, you observe yourself reaching your destination safely, and thus from your perspective, it worked! Meanwhile, in your original universe, everything was unraveled.
The alien speaking is merely in a perspective state of currently existing in the "edge" where against all odds, it's always worked. The humans who run it either believe it'll always work, or are aware that it doesn't but view the fates of "other worlds" as being inconsequential as long as it means there's one universe where Mankind's got free rides to everywhere.
Infinite material growth, zero emotional growth: the human dream.
Of course the universe is annihilated when the drive is activated...how else would it work?
A new universe is created in which your star-ship arrives safely at it's destination.
The new 'verse is the same as the old one, with the exception of your ships position in space.
Speed of light? Wormholes?
Poppycock!
Ah, the space Autobahn.
If something's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid.
This is a pretty terrifying FTL drive, I mostly understood the implications of the whole process described.
Edit also, the "risk" of this drive is just as present with one as with billions. The main risk was in building the first node, with infinite energy powering the shields... further risk is entirely on the maintenance crews not the new constructions
*I look forward to somebody ruling the system unreliable and shouting, “Shut True Facuum Utilization!” to one of their colleagues.*
So we’ve become Vogons with an improbability drive
And rather than poetry...we have TikTok!
You forgot to include the turbo encabulator, it is a vital component in the construction of a kugelblitz device.
Humans in a nutshell: It is safe, until it is not.
It'll work perfectly!
... Unless it doesn't.
Soooo...an Alcubierre Drive, in essence? Not exactly, but that seems like the seed of the idea.
I'm reminded of Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan. Similar thing, a more stable vacuum was accidentally created and proceeded to expand through the universe, destroying everything as it did. Good book.
I like how your version of aliens recognize the danger of attempting to create vacuum decay. These videos are fun little entertainment.
Yeah imagine wanting an expanding volume of null space near your territory.
Look, it's really simple, there are infinite parallel universes. The energy we're "creating" with our synthetic false vacuum decay in this universe comes from the very real false vacuum decay of a parallel universe.
On one hand, we're hoping that universe is unpopulated.
On the other, we're hoping if it is populated, it's populated by someone doing the same thing we are.
Don't mind us we are just edging the total vacuum decay cascade.
yeah well, sounds good to me . . . when do we leave.
I love this concept
well we don't know how all of works but it does and that is good enough
No worries about universe deletion. The expansion of the universe ensures the corridors can never cascade outwards fast enough.
Ofcourse, if the universe reverses expanding at one point in time, it WILL delete the universe, though only a Planck second earlier than without the corridors. Which is not a lot of time, but for practical purposes is half the duration...
Humans would be the only species capable of fricking made FTL travel profitable by selling its services to other species, Lmao i love humanity
Beats our first attempts with the Event Horizon process. I mean a trip though a mind shattering hell which also brings your ship to demonic quasi life was pretty hard core, even for humans.
This made me smile so much! Amazing! :D
Ah yes, the tried and true method of, "build a road"
The legendary Disclaimer.... lawyers... again. 😂
Kugelblitz (German for "ball lightning"). is a theoretical astrophysical object predicted by general relativity. It is a concentration of heat, light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped. In other words, if enough radiation is aimed into a region of space, the concentration of energy can warp spacetime so much that it creates a black hole.
Koogelbitz takes me back to the heechee 😂
A space hyperloop?
I was waiting for a Douglas Adams quote to the effect that. it was their own damned fault because plans for the hyperspace expressway have been on display at the local planning office for the last 50 years and if they can't be bothered, the Vogons certainly couldn't. I can see Humans as the new Vogons.
I think I get the science.
What humanity is doing is making a galactic train tunnel through space, inside which they use vast amounts of power to mess with the physics defining fields that make up reality such as the Higgs-Boson that define the concepts of an object's mass. Without mass, there's no limit to the speed of light nor any resistance to inertia, so any amount of energy results in pretty much infinite velocity along these space highways.
The only problem is that, without containment, the phenomenon known as vacuum decay that the humans are using is basically contagious to any space around it, and any loss of containment, even a single particle, would result in a light speed bubble of annihilation scrubbing the laws of physics off the face of the universe.
Scientist : "It is completely safe to use!"
Also Scientist : "If safety is not met, then say good bye to everything in the near visinity of what we created!"
Simply, it works cause it does.
perhaps you could add a little sound at the end of these? like an "end of line" beep, to signify the reading is done?
Galactic community: And your sure this isn't going to destroy the universe?
Humans: Mhm, yup it's fine everything's fine.
Robert Moses on Space Crack for Space Highways
The thermal dynamic shields capacitor has a built in defense guarantee. Attack it and its instant death to the attack and its local space time. lol.
The roulette wheel is just for fun.
Look, don't worry if something goes wrong it will only be SOL speed universal destruction. That's plenty of time to either figure something out or find another galaxy!
Nah...I'll stick to my Impropability Drive, thank you very much!
Sounds like a good idea to me dont see why the aliens not into it
Ah yes, as if the realization that what we think of as nothingness- vacuum -is just a local minima in the string state, rather than the absolute minima wasn't horrifying enough; let's intentionally induce false vacuum decay in a region of space, annihilating the concept of space-time, and thus the concept of the speed of light so space ship can go zoooooom.
Just gotta hope those beacons which somehow maintain the false vacuum state of our reality are up to snuff. One slip up in QC and the whole universe is going to discover what/when came before/is behind the big bang; of course, there won't be nothing to exist the concept of irritation, but I'm sure if -thing could've, it would.
(Ps, assuming we can discover more supporting evidence for string theory, this is a VERY real possibility. Sleep well!)
terrains always coming up with the most insane bs ever, that makes no sense to anyone, even if the terrains fully understand the workings behind their insane tech
Soooo, how do they know that it'll simply delete the universe in the unlikely event of an engine's failure?
Understanding of quantum physics. Kurzgesagt has a video about vacuum decay.
Good thing every human planet is shielded, and the true vacuum is only going to be expanding at C.
LOL create and actual false vacuum. Welp lets just hope that doesn't get away from them and destroy reality.
I suppose the trick would be to keep the universe destroying collapse right on the event horizon of the kugelblitz. If right on the edge it's lightspeed expansion would leave a lot of this collapsing universe energy available to harvest.
Note: This only works in sci fi physics. In regular old physics a tiny black hole such as one made by even a Dyson spheres worth of energy kugelblitz would disappear in a deadly flash of gamma radiation as Hawking radiation finished it off. Leaving our collapsing Universe free to destroy every part of the universe which we currently have causal relationship with. (So most of the currently observable universe is safe.)
Makes sense to me
Reminds me a bit of the FTL drives from Halo... that quite literally rip a hole in space to travel through, or even the game Elite Dangerous where capital ships do just that... rip a hole into space and travel through it, bring parts of witchspace/subspace with them on reentry... and where the force is so strong it vibrates nearby ships producing an eerie sound. th-cam.com/video/G7f0eOelopI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=axqkh927siPBU5oC&t=13
Its basically similar to wave motion in yamato
It sounds like something humans would come up with. 😂
Does not seem like it matters where the lanes are built then does it?
At least 100% safe so far.
It is like medication side effects and that 1 in a million odds of the getting the worst one.
Feel like I’ve heard this AI voice on other channels, too.
When I heard "strange matter", I cringed.
Profit. I laughed so hard
Should we do this why not should we really be harnessing this much power why not
but the system described here is not FLT travel. Its gateway systems.
Rube Goldberg lives!
Hey, either it works or its not my problem anymore
whoops!
Everything is energy,,wave form,, Frequency,,,light,,vibration, modulation,,,amplitude,,,let's not forget gravity,,its important to
Who is the narrator?
Beware of humans and words (Cro) croatoan last words of lost group of people never found or seen again
human thought it would be fun to travel near speed of light
extra steps
beware of "whoops!" (other words) followed by the end of reality and Universe or multiverse
FTL isnt required for interstellar travel.
Stop looking in the wrong place...
This post was a bit childishly written. I like them better when the writing sounds more profound or mature. More professional sounding 'explanations' would add to the quality.
If the ships can survive within the decayed vacuum of the ftl "tunnel", the claim that the universe would be deleted doesn't make sense, as clearly they'd be able to restrain the vacuum decay at a further point.
These stories are a bit repetitive, consider story and plot. Most of all a different narrator 😢
Why do you distract us from your narration with subtitles? It's annoying.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
This ah... doesn't sound like a great idea. A black hole is a black hole...