Scientist: I’ve discovered a new material, antimatter! NASA engineer: dose it fall down or up? *everyone* DOWN! UP! SIDE WAYS! NO, UP! DOWN! COOKIES! UP! LEFT! WEST!
I absolutely love how you actually educate us whilst you show us the content you've created or are showcasing. I'm a space nut, and i've learned QUITEEEE a bit from your videos. So thanks!
Oh boy, stacking those alcuberrie drives multiplies the speed, right? Where's Danny2462? Get a whole shitton of them, stack them, and destroy Kerbin again!
HAL9000 Not exactly. If I could get there in minutes there would be no need for hibernating them. The difficulty in killing the entire crew while they where interfering would be great. Also, I would have no reason to kill them the first place, since they would know the secret only hours after departure.
vacuum catastrophe I thought was meant to be where the universe undergoes a phase change into a lower vacuum energy state, basically destroying everything and rewriting physics.... not... you know, a catastrophically bad prediction....
I wish they'd show what it would actually look like to be inside an Alcubierre field--encased in a sphere of spacetime that's oddly lensed at the front, and almost reflective at the back, with a miniscule band of perfect clarity around the midsection.
Hi Scott One of the things I learned about in School was the the original equation for the prediction for antimatter was the Klein-Gordon equation. When the problem was first solved they discovered two sets of solutions. The solution produced positive energy values and negative energy values. At the time of the problem the negative energy solutions to the problem were written off as invalid. In time it was discovered it solved the problem anti-matter. Still people couldn't accept negative energy values so instead it was stated that some quantum property was inverted to the "normal" particle. The idea was then that antimatter was actually a particle that quantum tunneled across the dirac sea where the middle of the sea was the speed of light and one side of the graph went toward zero in velocity wereas the other side went to twice the speed of light. Feynman took it furth and suggested with Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory. So with these ideas is it possible to think of anti-matter itself as having negative energy densities.
Wow loved the interior at the front, did not know you could do that with the game, imagine a whole ship like that with a full interior you could walk around and interact with using your little kerbals
Scott, there is a faster way to eliminate your momentum with an Alcubierre drive. The idea is with a large body with high gravity to initially find your velocity vector after warping in. After you have done that, like in this video, rather than burning and wasting precious fuel, wait until you are almost out of the SOI of the target body. As you move outward you can continue to charge your exotic matter as well. Finally, warp in close to the planet again and repeat as necessary. The conserves moment and save fuel for precision maneuvers. This particular maneuver takes time but saves energy. If you have exotic matter to spare, you can speed up the process by warping in close to the planet, and after your distance has doubled, or gravitational forces have decreased by 75% due to the inverse square law, you warp in close again. the more time you spend close to the planet, the faster you slow down the relative velocity. Same thing goes for speeding up. This maneuver makes planning warp trips so much faster. But watch out, you can only have so much exotic matter so make sure you give yourself a buffet to regenerate matter and don't warp in so close that you can't control your orbit in relation to the speed at which you can generate exotic matter. Hope this helps :D
The irony here is that it takes game time, but much less Kerbal time than a classic orbital transfer, so basically while being OP, this thing makes you play more ans spend less gameplay time in time warp, genius !
Because matter falls down, and antimatter is the opposite of matter, so you could jump to the conclusion that it would interact with gravity in a different way.
I think it's a bit of a silly idea as well, since it's supposed to have positive mass, but it's hard to predict properties of matter we can't even collect in large quantities, so it could be possible.
Totally Not A Cylon but it's not the opposite of matter. It just has opposite electrical charge. If it did have negative mass then it would be a candidate for warping space.
JimPlaysGames I'll also add that we have found neutral particles that have positive mass, so we can't just jump to the conclusion that anti-matter has negative mass.
Totally Not A Cylon Anti matter isn't the opposite at all. Just there is anti in it doesn't mean it isn't positive matter. That is why they call negative matter negative matter. Anti matter is a whole different thing.
I actually did a report at the end of the year in AP physics about the Quantum Field Theory and the Vacuum Catastrophe. I just felt the need to mention that.
I love your vids.itslike listening to a lecture on quantum physics while watching a background video of space warping used to cross the solar system.so much more interesting that my physics class
Scott, I just wanted to say thanks for this vid. I love all of your stuff, but when you bust out into theoretical physics lectures I get all warm and fuzzy inside. I just lean back and wait for my mind to be blown.
Energy and matter are one in the same, antimatter exists, antimatter is the opposite of matter, negative energy is the opposite of energy, energy exists, matter exists: therefore, negative energy exists
You mean press a button and all hell brakes lose, the universe gives up, but you don't go very far? That's not only in the stock game, that IS the stock game!
Actually Scott, negative energy densities have been observed. For example, the Casimir Effect, Hawking Radiation, and squeezed vacuum states. The only problem is we have no idea how to store that and put it inside a starship
Antimatter has been studied quite well in fact. It falls down. Its gravity also attracts and does not repulse. It is quite ordinary, when not mixed up with "normal" matter. Also, everything "falls down". That's the trick with gravity - it is not a force at all, just geometry. So it affects anything exactly the same, with no difference based on any property of the falling object. Zero mass also falls down, so there's no reason to expect negative mass to be different. If it existed it would also fall down. The only difference is how things would fall towards it, not how it would fall towards things.
Omg I just watched a documentary about this and here is a ksp video about it! Haha. I even saw the casimier effect (however you spell it) lol awesome video and I hope this space craft exists in the future. :)
Here is "Faster than Light: Warp Drive - SpaceVision 2013" a 59 min talk discussing the possibility of warp drive. Faster than Light: Warp Drive - SpaceVision 2013
The Alcubierre Drive (sp?) is an interesting concept, for those that don't know, it uses mechanics similar to have a surfboard moves over water, but instead of water it's space. Seriously though, there are people who have written a lot of interesting things on it and I'd suggest researching the theory a little, it's pretty cool stuff.
Richard Feynman actually suggested that there is only one electron. Which sort of occupies all of the places that we observe electrons at the same time. Makes me wonder, if a positron and an electron annihilate, does every electron disappear? Or is it just that instance of the two particles which get destroyed.
pretty sure if an electron and positron annihilate then just those particles are affected, i believe they would have tested this before, and it fits with the standard model of quantum mechanics
I believe you're thinking of the photon. Electrons are a form of matter, and can't follow multiple paths, while photons follow every possible path simultaneously, interfere with themselves, and don't experience the passage of time.
It makes more sense if the positron would go poof (technical term) and the electron would just occupy one less location. Wait a minute you observed an electron!? From what I know, we observe photon emissions at energy levels concurrent to state changes of electrons ... As I understand it, that's why Feynman's novel explanation makes sense -- we don't directly observe the electron, just the fuzz of photons from it's interactions and the mass associated with it. If we were to talk about a single electron, it has no fixed location (just a neighborhood). Mind you it's not like a photon which could be anywhere, but it's still really fast. Sorry in advance internet, I'm no expert.
If that were true, antimatter would have annihilated everything pretty early on. Scientists detect traces of antimatter in high energy events like thunderstorms.
The theory that there is only one electron actually suggests that there is also only one positron, and that the positron and the electron are the same particle. What we observe as annihilation is supposedly actually the electron turning into a positron and traveling backwards in time. The fact that it can travel forwards and backwards in time is why it is able to occupy multiple positions simultaneously.
various sources indicate that the IXS Enterprise will be able to complete a voyage between here and Alpha Centauri (4.3 ly away) in about 2 weeks. If this does work, then we've already gained access to conducting manned ground missions on nearby earth-like worlds, and maybe even colonize said worlds, along with creating mining colonies in asteroid belts and outposts on more remote worlds like the various moons of Sol system. If the Enterprise holds up on her maiden voyage into the warp, and comes out in one piece, then we have just saved humanity from it's dying homeworld and instantly turned space travel into a commodity in one fell swoop.
"That game were you launch rockets with little green men on-board" My reaction: Nope never heard of that game. Its not like I have over a thousand hours on something like that or anything.
ok, in science it works like this: When you posit something like 'negative energy' you have to actually FIND it to make it work. No negative energy, no drive. What rules it out currently is thelack of such energy, and until it is found this it all conjecture. Neat idea either way, and proof that there's more than one way to get to a number you want :D
There actually is a postulate from John Wheeler that there IS only one electron in the universe that just happens to be moving forwards and backwards in time.
The universe does only have one electron in it, It's just winding its way backwards and forwards through time and every time it intersects our time we observe it as another electron.
Engineer, Mr. Scott: Ye cannot change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics; ye cannot cahnge the laws of physics, laws of physics, Jim.
I love how such complex ideas (like warp drive) can be fueled by such core human concepts ("it would be cool if warp drive existed.") Science is awesome. :)
Scott a theoretical question if you like: Since the Alcubiere drive simply shrinks space/time ahead of the ship, if you where in orbit then shouldnt you simply continue traveling in that orbit even with the warp bubble on? Where i am getting is, shouldnt you first have to conventionaly accelerate towards your target (jupiter for instance) and then activate the warp bubble? Is it correct to have the warp drive in the mod just shoot you in a straight ahead trajectory?
The Alcubierre drive works essentially as a thruster, pushing the craft forwards on a wave of compressed space. The result is the same as if the craft used a conventional thruster: it propels the craft forward with enough velocity to escape from orbit.
hmm, i thought its just a bubble that compresses space/time in front and expands it in the back but doesnt cause any movement in and of itself. Then the ship moves with its original velocity vector(unless you conventionaly accelerate more) in essentially a compressed and thus shorter distance. I am pretty sure that dr white described it that way in the starship congress last year. I might be missing something though.
lupahole By my understanding, the craft is accelerated on a flat plane of spacetime around which space is contracted and expanded. The "bubble" of spacetime around the craft is accelerated, so that although the velocity vector of the craft remains the same on the flat plane, the overall effect is positive acceleration in the direction of travel, sufficient to escape from orbit: you are probably right, however, that some forward acceleration is necessary for the craft to be propelled. You'll observe that Scott does this in the video.
nah, when i use the warp drive in the mod it just shoots straight to where i am pointing, doesnt take into consideration my orbital trajectory one bit. But thats in game ofcourse. Not sure i unerstand waht you mean "flat plane" of space time, the theory behind it seems to me contracted space in front, expanded in the back. That action in and of itself shouldnt produce any movement, certainly not towards where your ship is pointing. The original vector should be maintained, all that happens is that space infront of that vector is simply "shorter". Either that or i missunderstand the concept completely:P
Ah nevermind, found an article, it says that the middle position between the expanded and contracted space is pushed forward by the difference, a cosmic wave of sorts. Hmm
13:45 is this similar to the holes (gaps) in the sheet metal on the front of a microwave oven door? (thats what ive always assumed) that light can pass through the gaps but microwaves cant
No, he is referring to a quantum mechanical meaning of the word "fit". In the casimer experiment, virtual photons are confined to certain energies and there is lower bound energy which microwaves for example are too weak to poses. It's less like a large man trying to get through a small door than like a small child being told he's too short to ride this ride.
If we had a system with two bodies, one with positive mass and one with negative mass, how would the forces and acceleration due gravity look like? What about the total kinetic energy and momentum, would it be preserved? And as always, great video, Scott Manley!
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"Starfleet Regulation states that you can only use thrusters in spacedock." You are the best.
how can it be Starfleet anyway, that's no Federation starship, Federation has an Enterprise, and that's not it.
You hear that faint whoosh sound?
That, faint, calm, Woosh?
*Thats The Joke Going Over Your Head*
Timestamp : 7:49
@@user2C47 IXS Enterprise is a Pre Federation Starfleet ship from 2062
@@user2C47 xcv-300 is an enterprise from trek. Ring warp system.
Gravioli gravioli give me the warp driveoli
Is it ok if I use this sentence?
HAIL GABE!
Wait one second, KSP has 3 letters in it. Gabe Newell commented on it. HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!!!!
ASCG5000 *facepalm* it's ethier you're desperate as hell, or just plain stupid.
FutureJarhead16 nope
Scientist: I’ve discovered a new material, antimatter!
NASA engineer: dose it fall down or up?
*everyone* DOWN! UP! SIDE WAYS! NO, UP! DOWN! COOKIES! UP! LEFT! WEST!
“Cookies” “west” lol
I learn more about space here than in a Science class
Science class is 90% the same stuff every year. Its like your in high school, and they're going over what solids liquids and gases are again.
Lostrogath agreed.
Lostrogath In my Science class, I took a test to show I could use a ruler. Im in 11th grade. Gg public education.
Acemcbean Piff Is this side kilometers?
Lostrogath Hmm.. What if I put it in he-.. Ooh! It tickles!
I absolutely love how you actually educate us whilst you show us the content you've created or are showcasing. I'm a space nut, and i've learned QUITEEEE a bit from your videos. So thanks!
God, I love Scott's videos. I always learn something.
Me 2, awesome vid scott
Why are you telling god this?
You learn something new, and it's never in school.
Eryk Ross not much in public schools. Go to higher education
Eryk Ross I don't know man, I learn quite a few things in school.
That bit about the Vacuum catastrophe was absolutely fantastic. when you said "one electron in the universe" I about fell on the floor laughing.
Alternate title: Science with Scott.
You could have tried to send a crewmember out of the ship while warping, or send someone out before, and let this guy watch your ship disappear.
I'm honored my mod made your channel, Scott! I've always been an avid watcher! Ta muchly indeed :)
I'm sorry Scott, I'm afraid I can't do that.
I thought you said we could detect ravioli in space lol
Don't let pastafarians hear this ...
Who toucha my spaghet
lmao
Don't you hate it when your antimatter instantly annihilates?
That stuff is so hard to come by
Yeah I hate when it implodes, I was gonna keep a collection, too!
Yeah. I hate it too. I'm trying to build a magnetic containment field box.
I love episodes like this. I have to have this video open in one window, and wikipedia in another. Thank you for the insight into quantum physics!
I love the episodes that are loaded with real scientific information for me to learn, which is almost every single one.
You definitely don't want to mess with Heisenberg.
Or your cat
is maby dead!
Oh boy, stacking those alcuberrie drives multiplies the speed, right?
Where's Danny2462?
Get a whole shitton of them, stack them, and destroy Kerbin again!
Well, he had two of them at 0.1c, and he said he was getting 0.2c, so I don't think so.
TOASTEngineer 2*0.1c = 0.2c. Yes, stacking does multiply the speed.
Fredrick Everson
Oh. Well, 0.1+0.1 is also 0.2, you know.
TOASTEngineer
Yes, multiplication is repeated adding, we all fucking know that. Thanks.
Seanathon James
*sigh*
Love how the Gravioli detectors and science juniors are Cylon and Hal references
3:55
Thanks Scott. But to be honest I'd just try and use the warp drive to mess with casualty.
It's hard to remain casual around warp drives - they're pretty exciting things :P
Though a warp drive would make killing the crew much easier...
HAL9000 Not exactly. If I could get there in minutes there would be no need for hibernating them. The difficulty in killing the entire crew while they where interfering would be great. Also, I would have no reason to kill them the first place, since they would know the secret only hours after departure.
Anvilshock I'm definitely stealing that.
HALL9000ish Just take a quick trip to Jupiter, "break" an antenna, and lock the crew outside. Easy as that ;)
vacuum catastrophe I thought was meant to be where the universe undergoes a phase change into a lower vacuum energy state, basically destroying everything and rewriting physics.... not... you know, a catastrophically bad prediction....
+Jon Kloske that's the false vacuum catastrophe
+Scott Manley all praise the one true vacuum catastrophe!
Welcome to Quantum Physics, where existence is relative and and your theories on relativity will never be agreed on.
quoting starfleet regulations while leaving an airlock open for undock xD
*all this theoretical physics*
I guess I'll just take the moonspeak as it comes
I wish they'd show what it would actually look like to be inside an Alcubierre field--encased in a sphere of spacetime that's oddly lensed at the front, and almost reflective at the back, with a miniscule band of perfect clarity around the midsection.
Hi Scott
One of the things I learned about in School was the the original equation for the prediction for antimatter was the Klein-Gordon equation. When the problem was first solved they discovered two sets of solutions. The solution produced positive energy values and negative energy values. At the time of the problem the negative energy solutions to the problem were written off as invalid. In time it was discovered it solved the problem anti-matter. Still people couldn't accept negative energy values so instead it was stated that some quantum property was inverted to the "normal" particle. The idea was then that antimatter was actually a particle that quantum tunneled across the dirac sea where the middle of the sea was the speed of light and one side of the graph went toward zero in velocity wereas the other side went to twice the speed of light.
Feynman took it furth and suggested with Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory. So with these ideas is it possible to think
of anti-matter itself as having negative energy densities.
Wow loved the interior at the front, did not know you could do that with the game, imagine a whole ship like that with a full interior you could walk around and interact with using your little kerbals
Scott, there is a faster way to eliminate your momentum with an Alcubierre drive. The idea is with a large body with high gravity to initially find your velocity vector after warping in. After you have done that, like in this video, rather than burning and wasting precious fuel, wait until you are almost out of the SOI of the target body. As you move outward you can continue to charge your exotic matter as well. Finally, warp in close to the planet again and repeat as necessary. The conserves moment and save fuel for precision maneuvers. This particular maneuver takes time but saves energy. If you have exotic matter to spare, you can speed up the process by warping in close to the planet, and after your distance has doubled, or gravitational forces have decreased by 75% due to the inverse square law, you warp in close again. the more time you spend close to the planet, the faster you slow down the relative velocity. Same thing goes for speeding up. This maneuver makes planning warp trips so much faster. But watch out, you can only have so much exotic matter so make sure you give yourself a buffet to regenerate matter and don't warp in so close that you can't control your orbit in relation to the speed at which you can generate exotic matter. Hope this helps :D
The irony here is that it takes game time, but much less Kerbal time than a classic orbital transfer, so basically while being OP, this thing makes you play more ans spend less gameplay time in time warp, genius !
Why would antimatter fall up? If it's got positive mass wouldn't it be affected by gravity the same way as normal matter?
Because matter falls down, and antimatter is the opposite of matter, so you could jump to the conclusion that it would interact with gravity in a different way.
I think it's a bit of a silly idea as well, since it's supposed to have positive mass, but it's hard to predict properties of matter we can't even collect in large quantities, so it could be possible.
Totally Not A Cylon but it's not the opposite of matter. It just has opposite electrical charge. If it did have negative mass then it would be a candidate for warping space.
JimPlaysGames I'll also add that we have found neutral particles that have positive mass, so we can't just jump to the conclusion that anti-matter has negative mass.
Totally Not A Cylon Anti matter isn't the opposite at all. Just there is anti in it doesn't mean it isn't positive matter. That is why they call negative matter negative matter. Anti matter is a whole different thing.
"Antimatter is very hard to get and not have it instantly annihilate,"
-Understatement of the Year 2014
I really miss when Scott used to do these KSP videos.
GRAVIOLI GRAVIOLI GIVE ME EINSTEIN'S FORMUOLI
gravioli gravioli, what's in the pocketoli
Insert mandatory Breaking Bad joke. "Heisenberg doesn't like that happening"... "You're goddamn right"
I actually did a report at the end of the year in AP physics about the Quantum Field Theory and the Vacuum Catastrophe. I just felt the need to mention that.
Get the kerbal Galaxy mod and use this to search for life.
To boldly go where ne Kerbal has gone before !
i cant my ksp isnt compatible :((((((
Scott Manley, you are making my science class obsolete.
I love your vids.itslike listening to a lecture on quantum physics while watching a background video of space warping used to cross the solar system.so much more interesting that my physics class
How have 6 people disliked this already..? ;( I can't believe there is even 1 dislike on any of Scott's videos
"I'm sorry Scott, I can't do that." KAL (Kerbonically programmed ALgorithmic computer)
well kal is an actual thing now
"Where'd you learn all that stuff about quantum mechanics?"
"Video games!"
Thx for showing off this mod, Scott :)
Came to see a cool mod, got an even better physics lesson. Gotta love scott manly
Scott, I just wanted to say thanks for this vid. I love all of your stuff, but when you bust out into theoretical physics lectures I get all warm and fuzzy inside. I just lean back and wait for my mind to be blown.
Energy and matter are one in the same, antimatter exists, antimatter is the opposite of matter, negative energy is the opposite of energy, energy exists, matter exists: therefore, negative energy exists
Looks pretty cool indeed, now we just need someone to mod up the Holly Hop Drive :B
We NEED a Red Dwarf mod!
You mean press a button and all hell brakes lose, the universe gives up, but you don't go very far?
That's not only in the stock game, that IS the stock game!
Ah! I didn't think of it that way...
Bust still, we should at least have Starbug!
IT'S COLD OUTSIIIIIIIDE NO KIND OF ATMOSPHERE
Where's my mango juice?!!
Actually Scott, negative energy densities have been observed. For example, the Casimir Effect, Hawking Radiation, and squeezed vacuum states. The only problem is we have no idea how to store that and put it inside a starship
Antimatter has been studied quite well in fact. It falls down. Its gravity also attracts and does not repulse. It is quite ordinary, when not mixed up with "normal" matter.
Also, everything "falls down". That's the trick with gravity - it is not a force at all, just geometry. So it affects anything exactly the same, with no difference based on any property of the falling object. Zero mass also falls down, so there's no reason to expect negative mass to be different. If it existed it would also fall down. The only difference is how things would fall towards it, not how it would fall towards things.
Scott Manley I like how you avoided starting another Curse/KerbalStuff flamewar at the end :D
Quantum Vacuum Thruster! That sounds AMAZING! It doesn't make sense to say the uncertainty principle prevents zero point energy from being used.
Damn has it been 6 years? I remember when this mod released. Cannot believe it has been this long
There should be a mod for assembling ships in orbit. You'd have to deliver payloads to complete giant ships.
Try Interplanetary Launchpads
I'm pretty sure that's going to be in ksp 2
it's the friggin KSS Manley! All hail Scott ;-)
I love it when you talk theoretical physics to me.
Omg I just watched a documentary about this and here is a ksp video about it! Haha. I even saw the casimier effect (however you spell it) lol awesome video and I hope this space craft exists in the future. :)
Well
So it seems, that you, sir, really became celebrity in the field of KSP.
Congratulations (from another of your subscribers)
Damn, that's a neat mod. I sure hope theories like this get proved in our lifetime.
Spring love was my jam at the roller rink...
The sciency stuff is always awesome in your videos. :)
"Let me just explain this as I prepare the warp drive." Line worthy of any SF movie.
As a theoretical physics student, I'm fucking pumped about the fact that I'll learn all this stuff in the next few years.
I always learn something from you
Here is "Faster than Light: Warp Drive - SpaceVision 2013" a 59 min talk discussing the possibility of warp drive. Faster than Light: Warp Drive - SpaceVision 2013
So Trek still lives. Good video thanks.
The whole time I was comparing the IXS you were making to the one in the thumbnail of the next video XD
The Alcubierre Drive (sp?) is an interesting concept, for those that don't know, it uses mechanics similar to have a surfboard moves over water, but instead of water it's space. Seriously though, there are people who have written a lot of interesting things on it and I'd suggest researching the theory a little, it's pretty cool stuff.
5:58 While at warp, stay inside the vehicle at all times. The area Kerman is flying in would likely be a G hazard.
Richard Feynman actually suggested that there is only one electron. Which sort of occupies all of the places that we observe electrons at the same time. Makes me wonder, if a positron and an electron annihilate, does every electron disappear? Or is it just that instance of the two particles which get destroyed.
pretty sure if an electron and positron annihilate then just those particles are affected, i believe they would have tested this before, and it fits with the standard model of quantum mechanics
I believe you're thinking of the photon. Electrons are a form of matter, and can't follow multiple paths, while photons follow every possible path simultaneously, interfere with themselves, and don't experience the passage of time.
It makes more sense if the positron would go poof (technical term) and the electron would just occupy one less location. Wait a minute you observed an electron!? From what I know, we observe photon emissions at energy levels concurrent to state changes of electrons ... As I understand it, that's why Feynman's novel explanation makes sense -- we don't directly observe the electron, just the fuzz of photons from it's interactions and the mass associated with it. If we were to talk about a single electron, it has no fixed location (just a neighborhood). Mind you it's not like a photon which could be anywhere, but it's still really fast. Sorry in advance internet, I'm no expert.
If that were true, antimatter would have annihilated everything pretty early on. Scientists detect traces of antimatter in high energy events like thunderstorms.
The theory that there is only one electron actually suggests that there is also only one positron, and that the positron and the electron are the same particle.
What we observe as annihilation is supposedly actually the electron turning into a positron and traveling backwards in time. The fact that it can travel forwards and backwards in time is why it is able to occupy multiple positions simultaneously.
This is so awesome but I wish in the warp drive teleports you there.
various sources indicate that the IXS Enterprise will be able to complete a voyage between here and Alpha Centauri (4.3 ly away) in about 2 weeks. If this does work, then we've already gained access to conducting manned ground missions on nearby earth-like worlds, and maybe even colonize said worlds, along with creating mining colonies in asteroid belts and outposts on more remote worlds like the various moons of Sol system.
If the Enterprise holds up on her maiden voyage into the warp, and comes out in one piece, then we have just saved humanity from it's dying homeworld and instantly turned space travel into a commodity in one fell swoop.
Before video *clickes to see a mod* After video "I understand the universe now"....
A little is an understatement
"That game were you launch rockets with little green men on-board" My reaction: Nope never heard of that game. Its not like I have over a thousand hours on something like that or anything.
Now, just need to make the red and blue bits flash, say "Woop woop! This is the space police" and copy paste it into a 10 hour video!
Open the pod bay doors, Kal.
I'm sorry scott, i can't do that.
awesome mod thanks for showing this scott! :)
I love how smart he is
this episode made my brain hurt. Super cool mod though!
ok, in science it works like this: When you posit something like 'negative energy' you have to actually FIND it to make it work. No negative energy, no drive. What rules it out currently is thelack of such energy, and until it is found this it all conjecture.
Neat idea either way, and proof that there's more than one way to get to a number you want :D
"And Heisenberg doesn't like that"
You're goddamn right...
There actually is a postulate from John Wheeler that there IS only one electron in the universe that just happens to be moving forwards and backwards in time.
So many ideas to make the class D version , one of these as you setup would be the equilviant of one nacelle
The universe does only have one electron in it, It's just winding its way backwards and forwards through time and every time it intersects our time we observe it as another electron.
the depressing thing is i think that might be an actual "posibility" according to the maths.
It was a fun idea, but eventually proven to be not the case.
I skipped 4th year quantum in favour of soft condensed matter, I missed that. Makes me a little please to hear that not all of quantum is mad
Can I see some article(s) about that? I wanna see where the theory went.
I have to edit my KSP file so i can load in this one, this looks awesome.
love the outro
Sounds like the exotic matter generator eats energy at such a rate -- metaphorical to a patient with Prader-Willi syndrome ... ravenous appetite!
Technecly, the science of a warp drive is possible, but a pain in the ass
Frameshift Drive Charging...
Ready to engage.
Engineer, Mr. Scott:
Ye cannot change the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of physics;
ye cannot cahnge the laws of physics, laws of physics, Jim.
I love that description. So uh... this is a real ship, right?
..
Kael not yet
I love how such complex ideas (like warp drive) can be fueled by such core human concepts ("it would be cool if warp drive existed.")
Science is awesome. :)
a different level of awesome I guess
I belive that TNG covered this with their conversation on the Heisenberg Compensator, thanks Mr Roddenberry!
Heisinburg uncertainty principle...hmm...well, he was certainly someone you had to be uncertain of in breaking bad!
Arguably, the Casimir Effect is an example of negative energy density in nature, but it's a bit limited in its applications... XD
A book series called "The Owner" incorporates the Alcubierre drive. They're written by Neal Asher.
Zero Point Energy you say?
*Stargate: Atlantis noises*
Scott a theoretical question if you like: Since the Alcubiere drive simply shrinks space/time ahead of the ship, if you where in orbit then shouldnt you simply continue traveling in that orbit even with the warp bubble on? Where i am getting is, shouldnt you first have to conventionaly accelerate towards your target (jupiter for instance) and then activate the warp bubble? Is it correct to have the warp drive in the mod just shoot you in a straight ahead trajectory?
The Alcubierre drive works essentially as a thruster, pushing the craft forwards on a wave of compressed space. The result is the same as if the craft used a conventional thruster: it propels the craft forward with enough velocity to escape from orbit.
hmm, i thought its just a bubble that compresses space/time in front and expands it in the back but doesnt cause any movement in and of itself. Then the ship moves with its original velocity vector(unless you conventionaly accelerate more) in essentially a compressed and thus shorter distance. I am pretty sure that dr white described it that way in the starship congress last year. I might be missing something though.
lupahole By my understanding, the craft is accelerated on a flat plane of spacetime around which space is contracted and expanded. The "bubble" of spacetime around the craft is accelerated, so that although the velocity vector of the craft remains the same on the flat plane, the overall effect is positive acceleration in the direction of travel, sufficient to escape from orbit: you are probably right, however, that some forward acceleration is necessary for the craft to be propelled. You'll observe that Scott does this in the video.
nah, when i use the warp drive in the mod it just shoots straight to where i am pointing, doesnt take into consideration my orbital trajectory one bit. But thats in game ofcourse. Not sure i unerstand waht you mean "flat plane" of space time, the theory behind it seems to me contracted space in front, expanded in the back. That action in and of itself shouldnt produce any movement, certainly not towards where your ship is pointing. The original vector should be maintained, all that happens is that space infront of that vector is simply "shorter". Either that or i missunderstand the concept completely:P
Ah nevermind, found an article, it says that the middle position between the expanded and contracted space is pushed forward by the difference, a cosmic wave of sorts. Hmm
Nice universe at the end there
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is this similar to the holes (gaps) in the sheet metal on the front of a microwave oven door?
(thats what ive always assumed) that light can pass through the gaps but microwaves cant
Yes. The holes filter enough microwaves to prevent harm.
No, he is referring to a quantum mechanical meaning of the word "fit". In the casimer experiment, virtual photons are confined to certain energies and there is lower bound energy which microwaves for example are too weak to poses.
It's less like a large man trying to get through a small door than like a small child being told he's too short to ride this ride.
TheDct88 you do know microwaves are also a type of light, right so they do let light through exept for certaint types of light
scott you didn't the shut outside airlock before your kerbal got back in you killed everyone!
now THATS a spaceship!
If we had a system with two bodies, one with positive mass and one with negative mass, how would the forces and acceleration due gravity look like?
What about the total kinetic energy and momentum, would it be preserved?
And as always, great video, Scott Manley!