Advanced Propulsion Systems with Dr. Sonny White
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- Dr. Sonny White is a physicist and mechanical engineer. He previously worked at NASA's Eagleworks Lab testing advanced propulsion systems, and developing ideas for faster-than-light travel. He's now working with Limitless Space, founded with the vision of advancing human space exploration beyond the Solar System by the end of the 21st century.
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We need more people like Dr. White to groom the next generation. He seemed so enthusiastic and engaged. And you get a feeling of sincerity and honesty from every spoken word.
I agree with you but the phrase to groom has been tainted 😅
@@THIS---GUYJust like the phrase Xe which was Xenon on the periodic table is now an alternative gender pronoun, and also CP as either Central Park on NY or Command Post if you like to play Star Wars Battlefront 2 (original version). Wish one could go back to those simpler times before both gets altered.
Brilliance! A real window on possibility grabbed with both hands - wonderful to hear about how an unfettered mind works.
Amazing interview - Fraiser is not only able to talk (have watched plenty of news videos etc on the channel) - but also listen. Well done. Will be back for more. Greetings from the glorious country of Latvia.
You had me at 'Advanced Propulsion Systems'.
I really loved this interview and Dr Sonny White is amazing. ❤️
another great show Fraser. Thanks also to Dr. White.
I recall reading a Popular Mechanics (or Science) article explaining how the Sound Barrier would never be crossed by a vehicle. It was from the 1930s.
theres one from the 1930s going on about how these new-fangled aircraft carriers would be easy meat for battleships....
@@andyf4292 A story from my father, the aviation fan. An early demonstration of bombing ship from the air was…supposed to bomb. The gathered brass fully expected to laugh at pilots bombing some ol’ to-be-scrapped ships. Their expectations were the ships to still be floating and strong afterwards. The ships were ripped apart/ sunk by a few planes. The story it was pretty quiet in the stands then.
Yes, there is a similarity. But in this case the 'vehicle' is the sound itself, afaik (quasiparticles).
The sound barrier wasn't inextricably tied to causality.
@@peteclegg1578 For the last time, Warp Drives do not violate causality as they do not literally travel faster than light. Effective FTL and Literal FTL are two different things.
Great interview, thank you for all the hard work Fraser & Co. (and for the captions!).
The Expanse is the _absolute best_ science fiction show out there, the attention to detail and realism, and adherance to the actual science/laws of physics shine through at almost every turn.. Puts EVERY other sci-fi show/movie to _total shame_.
This one of the most fascinating discussion in terms of space exploration in the future. Basic science is much needed in order to reach future goals considering the daunting vast distances. I'm encouraged by many of the recent paper that have greatly enhanced our understanding of the Alcubierre drive with Allen Everett's warp bubble. We are building a foundation for future technologies have extended our vision. There much to learn in this area.
Really really hope we can get something together for at least decently relativistic speeds. Even if we slow crawl through the galaxy... It would be super cool
Futurists aren't always wrong. I've seen a cartoon from the 1920s showing a flapper sitting at an outdoor table of a restaurant, talking on a phone with a flat screen color video and a clumsy antenna that could be folded up to be portable. Not bad for a cell phone 50 years before they were invented, especially with the big color video screen.
Thanks to youtube I am so glad to be introduced to this great channel. So much interesting things to learn!👌
Great interview. Fascinating
What we need is a warp drive that works as in scifi, where the same amount of time passes at home as for you, so that you can come home again and not find that your twin is geriatric or the continents have drifted unrecognizably.
That would be great.
I think the number one problem is still energy because you can’t have any form of propulsion without energy.
Oh yes I can
For those believing we will never have Negative mass I would like to point you towards Phys. Rev. B 97, 134516 (2018) by Alberto Nicolis. He found that 1watt per second produces about 0.1mg of gravitational mass. I can't remember if its this paper or another( if so I will provide the citation in near future) In the proper standing wave configurations further analysis has shown that the sound waves can be configured to behave as Negative Mass. I wish I could give more knowledge on the subject but I have more study to do. Just figured I would share as I personally felt Negative mass was never happening now we see it might entirely be possible and if not with sound waves I suspect gravitational waves in similar configurations would be exactly what we need to produce such a drive. Interesting times indeed.
we can make sonic analogs of black holes, but being able to make an anaolg says nothing about being able to make the real thing
@@virutech32 Have you read the paper? Its not a sonic analog of a blackhole. Its literally demonstrating that sonic waves carry gravitational mass and are capable of demonstrating Negative mass under the influence of external gravitational fields.
My quip about gravitational waves was to not that while we can not produce sonic waves in a vacuum similar configurations of gravitational waves are likely to produce Negative mass effects as well, Likely of a much higher order.
The paper basically demonstrates capabilities of producing -0.1grams/Watt. Actual Negative Mass unless I am seriously missing something. I still have yet to find the other citation which goes into this phenomenon and its something I myself have been experimenting with and researching for the last couple years now.
@@virutech32 I get it if ya don't want to read the whole paper, Its a bit of a tough read and dry but at the very least its worth a glance as you will notice some interesting notes.
Great interview 👍
This is one of the best talks in a while TY Fraser. He not only covered an extremely interesting topic but also some deep philosophical concepts without pushing some social or political narrative which I appreciate.
PS: Anyone have any knowledge on these grants he is discussing? Do they have anything setup for Citizen Scientist? Just curious because I have been studying effects of Faraday waves in fluids and their effects on/in materials for sometime now however all experiments use basically salvaged equipment and materials. Even a couple grand to purchase proper transducers and measurement devices could go a long way. Wouldn't be able to really promise much as I couldn't claim I fully know what I am doing however I do completely intend to hopefully publish it all one day. Would love if there was more things setup for curious people to largely just "goof off" with because people doing just that have largely built the entire foundations of our current knowledgebase of physics as a whole.
lol yeah but those people who you claim are goofing off actually DID know what they were doing, in any case, I highly doubt you'll get any one wanting to throw cash at something that frivolous and with no scientific aim. You need to treat things properly: Preamble-Aim-Method-Data-Results-Conclusion-references. a basic traditional scientific structure, otherwise you are wasting your time, although, it's yours to waste, just not other peoples money lol...
@@psycronizer Sounds like you are grossly focused on misunderstanding the use of the word "Goofing" to be honest. I am not suggesting throw money at people to do whatever with at all. I am suggesting there are tons of "unqualified"( IE: No background and connections with Academia) people more than capable of performing proper scientific experiments despite not having a piece of paper and connections. Especially now that we live in a time where if someone wishes to be self taught they can accomplish as much as collage education could with ease. Hobbyist have a drive and interest in a subject likely well above students per-capita.
As an example, while I am not 100% sure I don't believe Fraser has ever had proper education in this field however in my opinion he is more than worthy were he to decide he needed funding to test a hypothesis he might have. I also regularly coach young students myself who are getting their degrees in programming, as well as collage graduates, and help them with various problems they may run into yet I am 100% self taught from dozens of books and thousands, if not tens of thousands of websites for learning coding. In a similar fashion I have taught myself organic chemistry, some mathematics( the devil lol), physics and various other scientific topics. Polymaths who do it for the love of Science are the ones who make the greatest discoveries.
Throughout all of this and despite Science being my passion in life( potentially compulsive disorder) I have had little to no drive to pursue an academic path. I never studied to prove superiority over another and I only do it because its what I love and what calms my mind and soul. These are the types of people you want to throw money at and who will genuinely discover big breakthroughs, not someone doing an experiment because its good for the cooperate backers.
@@seditt5146 While you enthusiasm is commendable surely you don't think that some backyard scientist is going to actually be "the one" to make some stupendous discovery that opens the way to some new "warp drive" or new field of physics. Here's what's going to happen regarding propulsion. Thrusters like VASMR ion drives etc. will be the only game in town for sustained efficient long range travel, until fusion tokamaks utilizing REBCO come along, and then those get used as the core for a NERVA like rocket to provide all the thrust you could ever want. Any new kind of sci fi like warp drives or other fantastical drive, if they ever happen, won't be a reality for a very, very long time. We might have the standard model of particle physics but our ideas on gravity are screwed, so developing anything in that vein is a long way off, MOND is probably closer to the truth in my opinion but I certainly do not subscribe to pointless research into crap that uses exotic matter etc. when we don't even have a T.O.E. we will be similar to "The Belt" rather than "Star Trek" for quite some time..and there's nothing wrong with that. I do not think anything worth while will come from anyone's garage, not at this level
@@psycronizer If they were funded even half as much I indeed to believe they are the ones who would make those discoveries so sorry I think we have reached a fundamental level of disagreement that is unlikely to be rectified.
Citizen Scientist are more than capable of laying groundwork for successful experiments and grants are given out for them all of the time. I am not sure if you are unaware of this or disagree with it entirely and clearing that up would help me understand where your stand a bit better.
@@seditt5146 oh lol, I will gladly explain my position ! In the past 300 years or so, many intelligent men, as you know of equal intellect to those of today (just missing the mountain of knowledge we have, discovered in steps) teased out the mathematical underpinnings of the natural world around them, Volta, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein to name a few. They all did it with keen minds and very limited physical interaction with the world to prove their ideas, due to the limitations of the day.
Here's the key part, all of the forces and little oddities of nature that required a mathematical proof to show we understand them , have already been done ! From Maxwell's field equations to Einstein's theory of special relativity, all of it is done, there isn't a single thing that happens on this earth that cannot be demonstrated by what we know.. In a rough sense, it was all the low hanging fruit, and it has been picked off by smart men using observation, imagination, and math, and it is DONE. Any physicist will tell you that. There is nothing left to find there.
This is why around the 1940's and 50's when they knew that they had cracked as much as they could they needed atom smashers to see what spills out of atoms when you hammer them hard enough, with high energy kinetic energy, know any back yard scientist's who just happened to build a cyclotron, synchrocyclotron, storage ring, linear accelerator ? no neither do I.
QCD is successful and could never have been arrived at by a backyard experimenter. The same was true for the Higgs, although even higher, much bigger machines were needed for that. So that's the mass explained, and gravity being even weaker has required stupendous machines to glean something. Laser interferometers, LIGO, your back yard boys built one of those ? didn't think so.
Our current theory of Newtonian gravity isn't cutting it, sure, it works down here, on this pathetically small scale, but it doesn't work out there, MOND might be the answer, anything to get people to junk dark matter, as it's a joke. We have gravity wrong, there are far too many problems with it on the macro scale. The instruments needed to test new ideas to figure out what it is that we don't yet get about gravity will probably be space born, and large, and the level of education behind building and understanding these new tools, just like all the previous ones, won't be back yard stuff, and it is naïve to think it will.
48:53 in chat Edward Kasimir THANK YOU for saying that mathematics is a field of knowledge!
Did Dr White actually say Nuclear Fusion was only 10 years away? Think I've heard that before somewhere... Great video though!
Chapters would be nice. Great vid. Thanks.
All well and good, Dr. Sonny White.
But what about faster then light
Information Transmission?
Do we have an update to this interview to see what has changed
When the first warp drive/Q-thruster stuff first came out...most outlets that weren't going overboard on "NASA invents warp drive" were trying to paint this guy as a fringe garage scientist who didn't really work for NASA.
The Drake equation answers the very uninteresting question “how
Many civilizations are there in this Galaxy utilizing Earth hommo sapiens 50s technology??”
I appreciate Sonny White. I could never get a degree at warp propulsion when I attempted to grow up. Best to us :) I am not a college degree but drop out. How does Sonny rectify Tesla’s ether with dark matter?
Contemporary fighter jets are probably capable of ~1.5-2.5g of horizontal acceleration. They are Certainly able to generate 1-1.5g of vertical acceleration as seen in public air shows as are Helicopters.
They have an atmosphere to push against and support themselves.
A Fission rocket ought to be able to produce 1G up to ~.25-.5 C which is plenty fast to get all the jobs done.
We just need to learn how to build these things on the Moon. 1/3 - 1/2G would allow lunar takeoff and might be enough to extend our survival in space.
We need to get a lot more experimental in space and maybe even slow down on science to make that happen.
We can't just grasp at straws forever!
We have not been to the lunar surface in like 45 years and returning is eating up much of the Nasa budget.
I always wonder what FLT would result in. Surely we are not only traveling faster than light, we are travelling faster than TIME. where (or when) would we arrive?
There will eventually be a business case for mining and manufacturing off earth.
eventually...decades from now
I'm glad that we have people focused on the critical path issue: Propulsion.
It seems that major funders have been very easily side tracked into (highly interesting) but ultimately side issues, like industrialisation of transport infrastructure, or medical space science.
Important issues, yes, but it ain't getting the baby's bottom washed as my granny used to say.
Delta V, energy, time. The rest is chicken soup.
Can wait to see the new star travel after 20 years!
The warp drive is only theorical but impossible in real life with our tecnology level!
Has Sonny precluded antigravity (so called electro propulsion) before warp drive? Isn’t an electro-gravity Propulsion Drive preclusive? Can Sonny speak to us on that ?
Thorium salt reactors. Until we can get enough neutron star stuff to make our mass large enough to bend space time. Over at Cool Worlds he came up with an ingenious idea of firing a laser into a black hole so that it loops back around and powers the ship. Then you could theoretically hitch a ride.
I may have said that poorly the laser anchors the spacecraft.
You still have to make a black hole first. Firing Tungsten telephone poles at near C into each other from multiple directions using nukes _may_ be possible with advanced enough computation but, it's a hard task, to grossly understate. Once you have one you can do Kugel-Blitz drives and other interesting things but, starting with the premise that you have a micro-black hole is kind of a leap. You might as well start with "low speed" Warp Drive as an assumption.
11:00 If you pull your ear the audio drops out. Wow, I did not know about that feature of VoIP software. :)
I wish you would have asked about how they think they can avoid obstacles and interstellar medium wearing away the spacecraft going at these speeds. Alcubierre drives seen to have a possibility to collect enormous amounts of matter at the front end as it's basically a gravity well if i understand correctly. What happens to that matter when the drive turns off?
I think it pulls anything inside the field with it, and then drops it off again at the destination. It's not actually moving through space at high speed.
great talk
Nuclear electric would be a good start so that getting to the outer solar system doesn't take a decade. Light weight 100kWe reactor would be a game changer and it would be very useful on the Moon or Mars too. Get on it, someone! :-)
Lol. Warp drive to the moon. How about warp drive to go shopping on the other side of town.
How might we equate time dilation utilizing a warp drive? Do we get younger FTL or older? What might we do to regulate time aboard such a warp craft ?
I propose "A-Drive" as a slang term for Alcubuerre Drive. Apologies for the misspelling
Mike Wells why would the clocks go backwards? As I often ask "what is the past?" Is it what the present used to be? Really? We don't know what the future is. We only ever live in the present.
theres actually a "hide self-view" option on zoom (right-click onto the own video)
I don't really know what the equations suggest, but I can't help but thinking about warp drive as of method of make yourself "flying by pulling your hair up." Because you generate expanded space behind and shrunken space in front of ship... How could the ship move toward that shrunken space if it is generated by the ship itself?
There was article about microscopic warp bubble generated in cavity during testing of the casimir effect some time ago. Yes it was static. Even if it could reduce the effective mass and inertia of something inside such bubble, I think it is improbable that any engine would do anything good... any reactive form of propulsion works with matter... and that matter would have reduced mass and inertia as well.
How does processional thrusting of scalar gyroscopic energy commit within Sonny’s warp designs?
Time stamps would help.
Location location is very important in space to tho. We could gather hydo-carbons, methane mainly from Titan and store it close to Earth. That would open the door to wherever. Sorting the feasibility to this is unfortunately above my pay schedule
Does Sonny hold any comprehensive views for redaction of the FCC regulations considering warp drive promulgation?
I think matter and antimatter do not repel each other. They're both made of positive energy. I think they have normal gravitational attraction. Let's assume we have one hydrogen atom and one antihydrogen. The antihydrogen's shell would contain one positron, and the hydrogen one electron. Normal matter would repel other normal matter, but at short distance would be attracted because of the electron and positron attracting each other, annihilating, after which the nuclei would attract and annihilate. Although antimatter mathematically travels backwards in time, entropy increases for antimatter in the same direction of time as for matter. If the antimatter were made of negative energy, it would literally be travelling backwards in time with reversed entropy (true backwards). As this would seem impossible (let's assume it is) this could be the reason we use virtual particles in QM as virtual antiparticles CAN have negative energy. But they cannot actually exist in our reality. This reasoning also supports that negative energy particles are always the ones to be swallowed by a black hole, while the positive energy counterpart is ejected into real space as hawking radiation.
We actually still don't know if they repel each other. There have been a few experiments done and the results have been inconclusive. It would be really interesting if they did.
@@frasercain Yes I know that we don't know, that is why I was hypothesizing ;)
Has Sonny understood that a simple ON/OFF mechanism for such a warp drive is extremely more damaging than any nuclear weapon?
1:10:21 Why assume that? Maybe we're just the first one. Maybe we're in the lead.
What if you could amplify mass
Resume @38:00
It could be that modern physics, in all its increasing complexity represents just one possible solution to link our understanding to observation.
Our solution is promising but perhaps ends in infinite complexity rather than an elegant theory of everything.
It could be that some philosophical thought, not corrupted by the current physics, will discover other ways to interpret what it is we see, hear, feel and experience.
Maybe human senses, born from local physics is the limiting factor. I imagine given a blank slate, a huge AI asked to come up with a theory of everything, would come to completely different solution, e.g. if it visualizes our universe in higher dimensional space. Unfortunately we would probably not understand the result.
Was this an invitation to send you warp drive depictions?
As an medicine student, I get sent pictures of nail fungus from people I really do not know well on a friendship level. I would like to change this for warp drive descriptions
How would sports betting work with faster than light travel?
We warp to planet betazed, play a football game, then warp back to earth. A person watching on tv on earth wouldn’t know the results for decades. But the athlete might live and die before the light from the game reaches earth.
Jaskooner Singh I don't have the maths but causality seems slightly odd to me. With no universal time how do we know that say a photon has left the sun before it arrives on the earth?
Noethers time-energy conservation.
Absolutely brilliant last question from Fraser. If alien civilizations existed wouldn’t they have already developed warp drives?? But we’re not seeing any visit us? Why??
Either they’re not sufficiently advanced to create warp drives or warp propulsion is not possible
or we’re in a zoo of sorts - which is likely considering
Or we are so backwards we are not worth their time.
We're not worth their time. Warp is possible, but its foolish to think we'd be worth the hassle in our current stage.
I think the challenge for a population of people who have mastered artificial gravity propulsion is - well put it this way - an analogy:
1) there is a zoo in a nearby town
2) the orangutans and chimpanzees got hold of firearms and are extremely territorial
How many tickets would be sold to zoo visitors? Probably zero.
Humanity, right now:
1) is extremely territorial - lots of disparate groups
2) the disparate groups are heavily armed
This could well be the reason for lack of visitors.
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I disagree with the statement about NASA's SLS
1)No company has done it yet. Starship is cool but it hasn't proved that it is going anywhere yet.
2)If you think NASA is fickle due to changing policy take a look at the market. Remember when SEARS was the neatest company since sliced bread.
NASA should maintain a heavy launch vehicle.
I will go a step further and say that a treaty between the EU and USA should be signed defining responsibilities to maintain and police basic space infrastructure between NASA and ESA.
Starship won't be profitable especially not without government funding. You can try to cook the books however you want but thee simply isn't enough passengers on earth that have the means to pay their own way to MARS! Starship is the dream of a Billionaire.
We can't depend on that. This moment is an anomaly. It is fueled by the dreams of a few men.
If space x were to act like a regular company which at some point it will have to it would focus on the Falcon Rocket. The only way that Starship can have any success is with a bunch of money from NASA. So...NASA still pays for it but hands over mission control?
Why is that better?
WHAT IF YOU SENT FUEL AHEAD AND SENT FUEL AHEAD OF THAT FUEL WHAT WOULD THAT COST
It's a great idea and has been considered. You could send fusion pellets in a chain ahead of your spacecraft, and pick them up as you go.
WELL IF YOU DID SEND ANY KIND OF FUEL AHEAD ... THE FIRST ONE WOULD HAVE TO BE GOING THE FASTEST ....THEN EACH ONE SLOWER ON DOWN THE LINE....I THINK THATS WHY THE NEVER CONCIDER DOING IT ..... BUT WHAT ABOUT THE IDEA OF SCOOPING UP HYDROGEN AS THEY MOVE ALONG ... IM SURE A NUCLEAR REACTER AND A ONE KILOMETER ELECTRIFIED Apparatus IN THE FRONT HANDLE THE JOB @@frasercain
Make rocket go now!
The short cut in physics is what we do not currently understand.
Has anyone ever studied the reactor from a Fast Attack Submarine as an interplanetary power source? How about a low mass low shielding reactor, liquid metal? How about a reactor that is self consuming for reaction mass and pukes itself out through the nozzle?
Why don’t we provide warp craft in 20 years time?
What are Sonny’s view on monopole magnetics? Exotic Vacuum Objects? Solitons?
Hmm what if dark matter and energy are the same, negative energy dark matter would fall up gravity wells, accumulate in the space between galaxies bouncing off them and pushing matter away into the galaxy gravity well, maybe causing the same effect as a positive energy dark matter would. (puts down the bong)
We have until 2063 until we get warp drive, let's "make it so".
That's
What I'm trying to do is get somebody to do.The physics on what i'm trying to do if somebody would contact me
Okay guys Okay, guys.This sounds a lot like what i'm doing
sounds like a singularity drive.
Really doesn't make sense to send humans to other system unless you are colonizing it or you have FTL.
Going in to the warp is not! A good idea..
Could an MHD drive be used near the sun's Corona, to propel a spacecraft to a significant portion of the speed of light? Assume that the heat problem from being so close to the sun has been solved, that it is an unmanned spacecraft and can accelerate to thousands of gee forces, and that all you have to do is attract and repel magnetic fields near the sun's surface.
You really think thousands of G's won't brake metals and plastics?
As most engineers are earth based and therefore think of space travel as the same as they do with traveling in atmosphere would it not be better to put a few up in space and let their minds conceive of how traveling would be more 4d then 3d
Maybe Mr. Musk could contribute to the NIAC grants? A drop in the ocean for him surely?
The LSI website has no new grant notices since 2020, and no information on what was awarded that year and progress, though in the interview such grants were mentioned as ongoing. Is LSI just a PR nonprofit org or have they actually accomplished some milestones toward advanced propulsion technology? The guest mentioned commercial confinement fusion with “high temp” superconducting magnets, but does he realize this won’t be practical for APP with the size and lack of scalability? Jump to less credible concepts such as warp drives with exotic matter-energy and we are left with an impression that there are no solid practical ideas replacing chemical rockets or providing near-term options beyond Mars. That shouldn’t be the case, we need all able minds on this.
They're brand new and fairly well funded, but I haven't dug into the specific funding rounds they've handed out. I asked Sonny to let me know the next time the release a new round so we can investigate the various projects.
Action of a Warp drive reminds me of how a quantum particle propels itself in the de Broglie's double solution theory - "stop and go locomotion of walking droplets". th-cam.com/video/G2KbIdu8vAs/w-d-xo.htmlm50s
In a moving vortex ring there are areas of low and high pressure in similarity to contracting and expanding space in relativity. I'm curious if quantum particles are warping their way thru space.
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How do you cool nuclear fusion engines in space? There is nothing to dissipate the heat? Even an normal nuclear reactor looks impossible to cool.
So there's this thing called a radiator. We actually have some pretty cool & effective designs that can handle some pretty low reject temps for high efficiency. If the mass budget doesn't allow for radiating at a certain temp you raise the rejection temp & take the efficiency hit
How will Sonny react when someone can do warp drive within the decade?
He'll be really happy.
ca. 44:00, Dr. White makes a very poignant comparison with Strasbourg Cathedral. FWIW, it was commissioned by Count Werner Habsburg, Bishop of Strasbourg at the time-the man from a rich family of rising influence. He convinced the Holy Roman Emperor, Heinrich II (of the House of Otto-the Habsburgs wouldn't be on throne for another 400 years) to chip in, but that was all to its funding. NASA is great, but inevitably politically volatile. The JWST was nearly canceled-twice!-with the final cost of just a few $B spread over nearly 20 years, which is about “misc. petty cash expenses” at the size of the USA economy if it were a corporation. At the same time the Senate Launch System proceeded, at mere $2.4B a launch-the capacity that should have been handled by the private sector.
We have had rare element shortage for decades. Tantalum the first one coming to mind-one of the contributor to the COVID electronics supply crisis. And no, it's not likely that the tantalum capacitor will be replaced across the board any time soon: “crippling tantalum caps shortage” has been a phrase since mid-1990, and the unicorn invention that would replace it has not arrived in the 30 years since, despite a huge, get very rich very fast, R&D incentive. And I'm not even talking a Maecenas here: 1000 ton of raw _16 Psyche_ material a year is past break-even if only for its platinum and iridium content, although it's not the goal: these are by far not the most strategically important elements extractable from it. This is not enough w.r.t. rare elements, but partially concentrating metals _in situ_ via good old induction melt could pay the cost a hundred-fold. And iridium is an excellent material for a reentry vehicle, as long as no one cares about the extra g and possible melting of the vehicle content, and essentially free in this role, as it's also part of payload.
Amazon delivery drones have a very capable Mach 20 propulsion system. This is what those Airforce pilots were filming over the water in the supposed "UFO" video. Drone delivery is available for Prime members.
huh? yea right....
Ah conspiracy theorists. Always making outlandish claims, never giving credible evidence or sources.
@@virutech32 The incredible conspiracy theory is believing these are little green men from space. These are Amazon drones. No need to put on the tin foil hat.
My underpants contract and expand
Why haven't we built a spacecraft just for speed? How can we be sure that stranger effects don't happen at higher speeds than we're capable of now? Look at cars, boats, airplanes etc. We have things that fly at ~ mach 5 but most aircraft stay below .9 mach for good reason.
I think space is a place to take risks with good instrumentation.
I'd rather see a Fission rocket than a new science mission!
It’s actually nice how the smartest people in the world still can’t figure out Zoom. 😂
It's gotten so much better with the pandemic. :-)
There was no BUSINESS MODEL for going to the moon
Nope, just nations trying to prove their power to each other.
to get the other guy to spent itself to a debt crisis?
there still isn't & that was run by a government. That's why it's so important to have governments & non-profits involved in this sort of stuff. Startups for this are a bad idea because there isn't likely to be any return on investment anytime soon which is why all these startups die off quickly.
Fusion is x years away. None of us will live for x years. Most of the people alive when Fusion research started are already dead. We are already at 3 + x generations along and there are still learned people like Dr. Sonny White making the same assertions... "fusion on the electricity grid is ten tears away". At some point the rest of us have call bullsht on these claims. We already have fission technologies that can provide abundant, cheap, safe, electricity if that is what is desired. Obviously those making decisions don't want that even if 99% of the rest of us do.
When/if fusion becomes abundant and practical it wont be a good thing for the 99%.
we don't see the warp signatures because _obviously_ they would have developed cloaking technology first.. lol
If FTL is possible, then this really, really makes the Fermi Paradox even more damning. In a universe where FTL is a thing, aliens should be everywhere.
What makes you think they aren't?
@starguy2718 we looked at a spot where they could be and they were not there.
Is there any thing we could harness in the so-called higgs field?
Our small hobbyist group started with the Cavendish gravity experiment from the year 1798 (two-hundred and twenty-five years ago). That experiment established the now-commonly-known (at least in some circles) understanding that all collections of atoms create their own gravity field.
Immense collections of atoms like celestial bodies (Earth, the moon, the sun, etc) create gravity that human instruments can measure.
Cavendish's experiment, all those years ago, was able to measure gravity of surprisingly small collections of atoms (aka matter objects).
That led us to the supposition that a single hydrogen atom - being an object of matter - must create its own (however small) gravity field. Since the sun is about 75% hydrogen (the remainder being helium), and has an immense gravity field, our supposition was rational.
Since a single proton in the nucleus and a single orbital electron create gravity, this led us to how an 'active' material could be made to 'punch above its weight' in terms of the magnitude of gravity it creates.
A 'passive' material is the aluminum etc. skin of a plane or rocket. An 'active' material would use the understanding of how atoms create gravity to create an unbalanced gravity force across the active material.
To use an analogy, 'lodestone' is magnetite turned into a natural magnet. Lodestone was the early discovery of magnetism by humans.
Natural magnetism exists. How about 'artificial magnetism'?
An electromagnet creates 'artificial' (man-made) magnetism.
Natural gravity exists. How about artificial gravity? Our group works at such devices. It requires open-mindedness, curiosity, and imagination, since there is no 'artificial gravity' degree track (yet).
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the inflation engine can't be far away.
Designs advanced propulsion systems but can’t provide a decent microphone for his interview. WTF is it with scientists and crappy mic’s?
Well there very far in the future. Not new space travelers.
NASA does too many Mars missions and ignores the other places.
Based on the vague answers we are 500years away from some proof of a warp drive. He only talks about nuclear fusion propulsion. That says a lot.
Warp drives are in another dimension. You know, that thing that will surround us with negative mass and bends time & space to get faster than the speed of light without going faster than light.
Except the mathematical model we have no clue how to start to create an artificial gravitational field. In my opinion, the real answer will come from CERN. Most likely by accident. And this accident can take ages. Maybe we will never get to that point since we are speaking of science fiction. We did not evolve on warp drive since star wars. So it can take a while :) 1000years at least to find out if it’s realistic.
you would actually see the stuf behind you in front of you :/
but they would be moving in revere, and the normal stuff in front of you would be really bright and blue shifted.
"theres no short cuts in science" he should study micro physics then
It was like 10 mins of science then 1 hr of politics
It's a crap idea, and I'll tell you why. You have the four fundamental forces, all fairly self explanatory given their names. Out of all the forces, only the strong force is the one that is worth leveraging, as is proven with fusion. Trying to find some thing that is like baryonic matter that has negative mass, or negative gravity, that repels instead of attracts is non sensical. The opposite of matter, with it's ability to curve space time, is simply empty space. However, after the quantum singularity that kicked off inflation, the inflaton field was effectively also in a sense the opposite of matter, at this point the energy density was so high that all of the forces that condensed out of it where in fact all just one superforce, there was no strong force, no weak force, no gravity, no electromagnetism simply because matter did not even exist yet, with no boundaries or restrictive forces holding it back, the inflaton energy field went from a point of infinite energy to some actual measurable volume, as this happened the energy density was diluted slightly enough to allow the strongest force to manifest, as the inflaton field inflated the energy density continued to drop until eventually all of the fundamental forces condensed out as the energy density got low enough for that to happen, the last force to condense out of course was the weakest force of them all, gravity.
Space time still has residual energy in it from the inflaton field, and it's natural property is one of repulsion, diffusion, from a high to low energy state. The problem with trying to leverage this repulsive force of a sufficiently high energy density to make use of this repulsive effect is that you would have to be "in" that field, exposed to it. These ideas really are preposterous with our level of technology and should be shelved for the foreseeable future. Fusion is the only reasonable power source that is capable of providing realistic propulsion designs, coupled with some form of reduced respiration stasis for travelers to hibernate during the non trivial flight times, even at some percentage of c.
I have two questions that are at the top of my list when comes to interviews with physicists, especially those with PHD after their name. 1. What exactly is 'ENERGY'? 2. What is the definition of 'MASS'? The dozen or so I have asked, failed to give an appropriate answer. Real DEFINITIONS of these terms are non-existent in academic physics as of yet...
Wrong. Use Wikipedia or some other online source.
Math matters.
Who bloody cares about you being manipulated by the artistic free swing video. Let your viewers judge for themselves.
Please include a link for that video!
He seems uninterested and bothered.