Stuff like this makes me tear up with what's possible, a warp drive that folds spacetime, if possible, would be amazing and I want so much to be around when or if it happens.
@@TheLordDinohi and that's also a reason why this takes a long time. If only a few nations get this level problems are again in sight. So no religion, any national governments or racial problems should exist. May also sound unrealistic. One possibility: never gonna happen! 😅
@@srikkanthankI don't think you can, but I think you could clear the path in front using a powerful laser, or maybe something like a plasma field in front of the ship that pushes small particles aside, ofc due to the large speed and the time it takes to move the particles aside, it would have a massive scale.
Warping should have a gravitational bubble around the ship. That would solve the problem. Anything small would simple redirect when it touches the bubble.
@nthank A large magnetic field and a laser/EM beam strong enough to instantaneously ionize all matter in front of the vessel. The ionized gas/dust can then be manipulated by a magnetic field and can be either funneled into the ship's engines for fuel or be safely routed around it.
Remember, even if FTL is impossible, due to time dilation it's still possible for a sub lightspeed ship to go anywhere in the universe in the crew's life time. Just not in the lifetime of the people you left behind.
"You watch them age and you watch them die and you race the light wind across the sky, and the gods are silent when you ask them why, pushing the speed of light...."
this video is talking about a ship that doesn't move faster than the speed of light, rather it bends space to reach the destination, this avoids time dilation
Actually... about 94% of the observable universe is already out of reach at light speed. This is due to the expansion of space. So, we'll still need to develop warp drive.
I'm afraid not. Reaching a relevant portion of light speed is by itself probably more difficult than creating some kind of mumbo jumbo scifi space bending engine. Even at 90% Light speed you'd still only be roughly 2x time dilated, and that by itself is nearly physically impossible. Only a couple of things in the universe reach such a speed
We already have craft that can do this faster. "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… ...anything you can imagine we already know how to do."-Ben Rich, Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works
А потом мы вспоминаем, что последние 20 лет на МКС космонавтов и астронавтов доставляли ракеты России. Это невольно заставляет задумываться о том, что Голливуд ушёл за рамки кинотеатров, и не смотря на то, что видео мы видим очень красивые, но реальность очень далека даже от "высадки на Луну". Кстати, реальный цвет Луны - коричневый. Парадокс😁 Мечтать нужно, и нужно стремиться осуществить свои мечты, но вот ложь ни к чему хорошему не приводит.
@@user-yq1rc1ti2l С дивана встань сначала, теоретик домашний и перестань смотреть помои которые тебе с России 1 в твою пустую черепушку вливают, а потом в окопы иди воевать ЗА РОДИНУ!
And people wonder why others love Star Trek so much. Not just for the Sci Fi aspect of it, but for what humans can actually achieve by putting all of our petty differences aside. My only sadness is, that it may not happen in my lifetime to see this if it's actually achieved.
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Nobody said it wasn't. But it's an incredible tool for people to start dreaming about the impossible- and maybe make it happen. Innovation is caused by those allowing themselves to dream and as long as we keep on dreaming, we will keep innovating.
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatmanimagination causes great progress, without dreams and imagination, humanity wouldn’t exist and there would be no progress at all…
Watched this absolute gorgeous video in the middle of the night and shed a tear. When did we as a species, stopped looking at the stars and always fighting over our differences?
We stopped looking at the stars when we lighted up our streets during the night. Most people in big cities have never truly seen the night sky in their entire lives.
@@yvan2563 For real. I moved from a big city to the Argentinian Patagonia. I'm amazed to be able to see even colors in the night sky with the naked eye!
Quite the other way around my friend, at some point when our only concern was survival, we stood up to better see predators and became aware of the infinite heavens strretching above us.
As society seems to get crazier and crazier, I periodically come back and watch this video and remind myself that maybe, just maybe, we can come out the other side and accomplish remarkable things. I've spent my life in the liberal arts... writing, design, photography, music... but have tremendous respect for the men and women working to solve these problems right now! Thank you for this.
Gene Roddenberry might be correct that at the end of civilization is when humanity's moment shines true. The Wheel built the first civilization The Alternator build the second(current and on a collapse course)civilization The Warp Engine might create the third civilization
Videos like these really make me dream, all the incredible things humanity might see one day. Traveling that kind of distance in less than 6 Months sounds unreal, I cannot even imagine the scientific discoveries that a journey to such a distant location would bring forward@@LimitlessSpaceInstitute
Isnt it insane that even when flying a space bending starship you still need 5 months to reach another Star!? Really gives you a better underderstanding on how vast the distances in our universe really are. Also amazing production really loved it!
Anyways, as Jesus Christ… I find it baffling that physicists all across the world do not express interest in the only real method of interstellar travel: light propulsion. I work at NASA, and I am about to ask President Biden for a giant laser to propel a high temperature shape memory alloy torque tube-steered solar-sail to 20% the speed of light, reaching the Centauri’s in around 20 years, (if peak velocities check out with what God told me in my dreams.) Talk about “more than 20/20 vision babe,” because from my POV I even have the intellectual freedom to disprove the Big Bang, as the red-shift of photons across vast distance is not caused by the alleged expansion of the universe with matter moving away from us, but because the wavelengths of light stretch into longer wavelengths causing red-shift, as they follow the distance traveling through dips along the space-time continuum which appears longer than the true displacement across space alone. I just won the Nobel Physics Prize in a TH-cam comment, but no one cares because that is how simulations work. Any Ways, I will find My Way someday. - Love Avery
@@averyoto just wanna let you know that nobody cares because you're one of the many mentally ill people who think they're geniuses, not because of the simulation. Whether we're in a simulation or not doesn't affect people caring, their response to you would be simulated. Their response is to simply move on.
@@averyoto It is certainly worth a "starshot" lol... We could probably get those little buggers to go even faster than 20%, and could effectively release them this decade is NASA has a greater budget than a Southern Football College. But priorities am I right?
@@gabrielperez-ze9tk Well since I am Jesus Christ, I am actually going to auction a NASA Space Force for $2.738 trillion dollars next election. Trump’s “Super Duper Missiles,” 17 times faster than America’s normal missiles, will represent the customary unit (SDM’s) for sub-light speed measurements. God told me in a dream, 20% the speed of light was near the cap, so if I trust him, it will take just over 9000 SDM’s to reach vessel voyage velocities. If adopted, MemeLord can power level the DragonBallZ SuperSaijin reference, so astronauts can gauge light on a scale with feasible digits, which better represent our beloved reality’s/TV show’s sense of style in grading performance after longterm gravity training on any contenders, channeling their core-crush (Ariana Grande) cruising along those photon beams through the deep void. Thank You (Archangel) Gabriel, for your causation from God’s Will to meet old metric misnomers with our new American scope.
Research engineer here. Long story short, start with instruments. Alcubierre-style drives require a type of negative energy field. The first attempts to create it in a lab will probably make only tiny ones. So, the first order of business won't be to create a field, but to create instruments capable of measuring tiny ones. On the bright side, independent confirmation of even a tiny warp-style negative energy field would be international news to say the least. Funding for the next stage should not be a problem. I estimate the odds of success at less than 10%, but that's not uncommon for research. As long as investors fully understand where the money is going and just how bad the challenges are, this is not a con game, it's just research. A lot more money has been spent on much worse ideas.
That's kinda what they've been doing and they have done laboratory tests: th-cam.com/video/ZZset72bHLI/w-d-xo.html The information they have deduced is that they do have some experimental evidence that *points* in the direction of possibility. Its not a real warp bubble but the effects are similar.
It's really not very promising, I agree. Realistically, traversing the stars will less involve going fast, and moreso involve modifying the crew to handle the distance. I predict that the first successful interstellar colony will be started by a von neumann probe full of human genomes. @@pablobro5944
-Thought this was just another CGI short film (the animators should be proud it is absolutely beautiful) but then I see it's a real institute. You go girl, chase that warp bubble.
This is also my dream! Sometimes at night I imagine what would be if I had chosen another way of life and work for kind of those projects. Who else is dreaming?
@@MrJackass692 The Forever War got a Hugo Awards in the 1970s, so it was pretty good then. Think of it as a sort of deconstruction of Starship Troopers by Heinlein (and Heinlein congratulated Haldeman on ths book!)
We ought not to delude ourselves, because 'SPEED' is but the first hurdle in this quest for space travel ! Having heard what it takes to relocate and occupy a planet other than Earth, it's best not to delude oneself with thinking one can travel in one's lifetime in the 21st. century to another planetoid enjoy a meaningful life .. !
I'm crying watching this, Dr. White. I remember years ago first finding and reading your research papers on the warp field interferometer tests and commentary on improving energy efficiency on fuel supply for the Alcubre drive after that and then reading that the negative energy requirement is actually not necessary and that we can actually do this with real energy capacitors! THEN there was that paper that came out that explored optimal warp field configurations to further improve fuel efficiency!!! It all just seems to be getting closer and closer every year and it's truly exciting! I only wish I could help somehow.
@@C.Sharpe Warp Field Mechanics 101 ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110015936/downloads/20110015936.pdf Warp Field Mechanics 102 ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20130011213/downloads/20130011213.pdf Efficient Warp Field Configurations arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07125.pdf The First Warp Bubble link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09484-z
Yeah and we need a freaking black hole to make this possible. This will one day happen if humanity survives until then, but definitely not in our lifetime..
First of all, a round of applause to the people that put together this video. It was truly inspiring and informative. I love how a sense of scale is driven home with each propulsion drive and how long the journey would take. Carl Sagan would be proud.👍👍👍
Watching the original Star Trek series back in the 70s & 80s as a weee lad, I would stare through the tv screen imagining what I'd be doing in an interstellar society. Seeing this video as a 54 year old fella, I'm still staring through screens, as I watch/hear the myriad of future possibilities, imagining what I'd be doing in that reality. This was a wonderfully edited video & narration. The visuals were surreal. Cheers, & keep us staring through screens, imagining!
This WILL NOT be possible on this lifetime and probably not on the next either. But the other guy that adds to that, that we will be extinct withing a century because of war and overpopulation is a zealot
This sent tingles down my spine. Just the idea of travelling such vast distances is truly amazing. Once we are able to sever our reliance on Earth for our survival the future of our species will be much more certain.
@@_martian101 Is that true though? We have certainly become more powerful and more intelligent. Those are both qualities that we could use to destroy ourselves or to grow. Considering that our populations have been steadily increasing I would suggest that the latter is the case.
@@donaldstrachan2750 it's easier to destroy than to build, so yeah humanity will always tend to destroy themselves, intelligence mixed with greed and ego is the indicator of self destruct capability, today destroying the world is as easy as press a button, in the future wiping out the entire human race will be even more easier despite they spread across many galaxies.
@@_martian101 I hear what you are saying. For sure our ability to do so has vastly increased. We could wipe ourselves out entirely within a few days/weeks probably. However, that is not what has happened in reality. In reality, the human species has been consistently growing since our very earliest beginnings.
Crazy, gives me a feeling unlike any movie, a combination of proud for what humanity can and is doing, excitement for the future and even a bit of fear.
This is extremely well done! Thank you for taking the time to share this beautiful work of art with those who love space and dreaming of our future among the stars
Absolutely gorgeous animations, even the idea of that ship that plays with space around it is cool (i know that it`s pretty old, some nasa concepts have been around for a while), makes me think of situations like "Guys, who wants to go to Enceladus with me? You have 40 minutes to pack your things and then we'll be there in 5 minutes"
Not as well, alas... first. Planet first, space once we actually know what we're doing to/for/with the planet. If you look around, after thousands of years of the republic, we don't. We don't educate the young- we sell education to them at an incredibly horrendous mental and physical price and are leaving each succeeding generation to clean up a bigger and bigger mess with less and less resources. Not being disrespectful, I love reading about space and science, but I'd much favor the here and now over the pie in the sky when it comes to priorities. ;)
6 months to Alpha Centauri is unbelievable to think about, space is so big but to think of human influence extending that far already in the cosmos is inspiring - our first interstellar foothold
That's roughly 4.367 LY in 6 months time. So, call it an even 9 LY traveled per year. It would STILL take roughly THREE THOUSAND YEARS to get to the center of just our own galaxy. Space is unfathomably massive.
@@johnothwolo As a fellower humaner I do believe whe are allowed to influence the cosmos to our will, be it benevolent or evil. And weak under-achievers like yourself will not stop humanity in doing so.
@hodisfut someone doesn't know about the secret space program ... We have already traveled all over our solar system and beyond. And have been since the 50s. Its sad that's they're doing this behind our back but that's why the disclosure is coming out more and more every day it seems.
When I took a class on relativity in college, and my prof taught about time dialation... he said we're never to go there ...and back.. I almost cried, believing that Star Trek could be true.
just because FTL is impossible doesn’t mean we can’t make it there and back in a human lifetime we just need to go incredibly fast (not quite as fast as the ship in this video, but fast enough)
the sheer amount of challenges to achieve this are immense, for starters, how to controll such a ship in space with that speed, how to controll debree and everything else arounf the ship and also how to stop it..
Breathtaking footages and illustrations. Hope this film and their creators get a lot of attention and the appreciation its deserves. Come on Algorithm, DO SOMETHING
Alcubierre drive is theoretical and not actually proven to work. Its working physics is beyond our current technological capabilities by centuries if ever.
Yep, and sadly it will not work. Even if the weird physics to make it work somehow is solved. The energy cost is so stupidly high the craft is unable to carry the fuel or reactor that's needed to make it work - here I talk about nuclear fuel meaning Tritium + He3 or better. No reactor that's have to be fitted inside a ship can be made to work on such an energy level either. Not even if one bring a tame black hole - which would be the ultimate energy converter. It's the energy equivalent of many +10 000 of stars at the same time, and to have that process running for the entire trip. So it's a big dream, but it simply will not happen well except........ If humanity do extremely well and we become a Kardashev III civ in the far far future, then those distant descendants of us might do it once or twice just to show off. ...or if they find they have urgent need to look at something new or unexpected. But for our dreams of going elsewhere and colonise new worlds, we better take better care of our backyard first, it will be only a small fraction of a ‰ of the very best and suitable that can go, and only on slow boat. And possibly only as stored templates, to be reconstructed on arrival. To travel physically in your own body look quite unlikely. The ideas about freezing and other various ideas of keeping the passengers in long term dormant state fail to address the problem of radiation that will break down both the genetic code, and over time also cause damage to vital enzymes and hormones - while the repair mechanisms for those will be frozen and dormant as well and so unable to repair the damage. So perhaps we humans can piggyback in a memory storage array, and perhaps have replicants of ourselves made at any destination - which would be cool. But the universe belong to the machines, and the idea of cute little spaceships with windows and a star ship captain that say 'engage' and add a dramatic hand gesture...... is by far the least probable scenario we'll ever see.
@@yashpatel261 we need to be at least a type one or two civilization in the "Kardashav scale" to even consider something like a warp drive , currently , we are a 0.00002 type of civilization , too primitive because we still using fossil fuels , and a warp drive isn't even possible , you'll need at least the power and the mass of a black hole reduced to fit in a spaceship , it's impossible with the current tech !
I came across a 2008 White Paper a few days ago regarding the emulation of mass via lasers confined within an electromagnetic torus. Unfortunately the paper was rather ambiguous as to points of convergence, number of lasers required for a theoretical model, or if any gaseous medium was required for interaction (ie. H2 etc), still while the concept read as unintended to be considered in application of "Warp Drive", it was still incredibly interesting.
@@PuckLokin "A hell of a lot of them" is exactly why I expressed disappointment in the paper not making any mention of any gaseous medium. From what little I can remember the Paper unfortunately leaned far more into vague theoretical concepts as opposed to any concept of application.
okay...here's what we do: we build a large spacecraft section (cylindrical, spins for artificial gravity). then, we build at least 4 Fusion engine modules and align them like a "+" at the back of the spacecraft. then, we build a protective shield at the front of the spacecraft, since the goal for this idea is to make the spacecraft go at least 10% the speed of light. at this speed, unprotected spacecraft would be literally eroded away by microdust particles. the spacecraft could house a maximum of 10,000 people, but the starting passenger count is anywhere from 100-200. This spacecraft, theoretically, could reach proxima centauri in 50 years time. We dont need an alcubiere drive. we just need to keep on adding fusion engines and shielding systems until the travel time gets to around 5-10 years. NASA, just give me a call and I can get you a design that will get you to alpha centauri in a reasonable timeframe.
We born too early to explore the cosmos. Just if this somehow is achievable, could change EVERYTHING. I really crossfingers everytime space x launch a rocket (even more with starship) this are just crazy big steps for us, for a possible golden-age of travel across the universe and finding new things out there. One day we'll make it.
Love it. A great vision, and a beautiful visualization. But... could we let Sonny White stay heads-down in his lab where we need him (thank you Mr. White!), and hire a voiceover artist to do these promo bits? Specialization has got us this far.
I become curious when watch these kinds of videos. The animation when the ship is warping make me really want to go there. Congrats such a beautiful video, easy to understand.
This is one of the best visualizations of faster than light speed comparisons that I have ever seen! Great work guys. And just so you know, the later concept from an engineering perspective is much closer to actuality than anyone currently thinks. The problem is that we may end by our ignorance and self-indulgent ego before we acquire the capability of travelling around our galactic neighbourhood. A cosmologist from the 1970s who was in the SETI discussions once theorized that the reason we do not see evidence of alien intelligence is that when a civilization achieves the capability of destroying itself instantly, ... well it does because there is a self destructive feature of intelligence which is neurosis. Societies fall under a neurotic self-centred self-cannibalizing event that destroys the intelligence from existence. This is why we maybe currently at the end of our existence with the never-ending war machines we have built.
For real. They act like the warp drive is just around the corner and all we need is a little bit more cooperation to make it happen...no no way our technology is hundreds if not thousands years away from tech like that I wish but that just so much seems like Year 3,000 technology at best
The end of this video gave me a small existential crisis. I imagined looking up at the sky and not seeing our star, it slightly freaked me out. Like I was looking at a lie. For me at least it would do very not good things to my mental state if I actually did that. All that aside great video!!
You guys are among the best in the world at popularizing interstellar travel. Hope to see content more often from you guys, been knowing about you since Wanderers.
I think currently the biggest issue with our Physics is that we have very little understanding of Gravity and we don’t know the fundamental particles responsible for gravity, once we figure out that i am 100% sure we can go faster than the speed of light…
An invention like this would instantly solve all of humankind's petty disputes over territory and resources. All of a sudden we would have access to an infinite amount of space and resources, almost making them mealiness.
The amount of energy for any of these would also be an interesting challenge for us as a species: any starship able to achieve significant fractional-c velocities is a planet killer.
You underestimate humanities capacity for hatred, jealousy and closed mindedness. War and destructions will alsways follow us, no matter where we go and how far we run. But not all hope is lost because music and art and philosphy and love and kindness will always be found where humans are.
No. Why fashion will be faster than nuclear? 😂 Both are equal. Also it is wrong estimation. Such ships have low acceleration (as example Zeus nuclear locomotive which Russia building - it need 100 days to reach Moon from Earth’s orbit), but they have permanent acceleration, each second. So, you can launch such locomotive and wait some time until it will not accelerate to appropriate speed. In result you can reach Saturn not for 2 years, but few months. Warp engine just impossibly.
Stuff like this makes me tear up with what's possible, a warp drive that folds spacetime, if possible, would be amazing and I want so much to be around when or if it happens.
You can help in some way than waiting for it to happen. Space needs you
Be part of that process bro!
You will be.
Same here!! Doubt we'll be around for something like this, but I'd settle for a small human settlement on Mars in my lifetime :)
Thank you for the support! We hope to set the foundation and push forward.
We have to make this ship a reality. Let's do it.
Lest reality does not let us make it.
We are very far away to do this unfortunately. Several steps head yet and a long way to go to just begin developing and testing something like this.
Stop all wars, stop all differences, unite all banners in common goal, and humanity could conquer the Stars
@@TheLordDinohi and that's also a reason why this takes a long time. If only a few nations get this level problems are again in sight. So no religion, any national governments or racial problems should exist. May also sound unrealistic. One possibility: never gonna happen! 😅
Thought the same but this copyrights reserve ... I mean what
- ship goes 5% speed of light
- hits pebble
- interstellar supernova
I always wonder about these light speed, warp speed etc.. How would the maneuver around the rocks and small debris floating in the space...
@@srikkanthankI don't think you can, but I think you could clear the path in front using a powerful laser, or maybe something like a plasma field in front of the ship that pushes small particles aside, ofc due to the large speed and the time it takes to move the particles aside, it would have a massive scale.
Warping should have a gravitational bubble around the ship. That would solve the problem. Anything small would simple redirect when it touches the bubble.
Aynen öyle.
@nthank A large magnetic field and a laser/EM beam strong enough to instantaneously ionize all matter in front of the vessel. The ionized gas/dust can then be manipulated by a magnetic field and can be either funneled into the ship's engines for fuel or be safely routed around it.
If it happens in my lifetime I’m onboard
Remember, even if FTL is impossible, due to time dilation it's still possible for a sub lightspeed ship to go anywhere in the universe in the crew's life time. Just not in the lifetime of the people you left behind.
"You watch them age and you watch them die and you race the light wind across the sky, and the gods are silent when you ask them why, pushing the speed of light...."
this video is talking about a ship that doesn't move faster than the speed of light, rather it bends space to reach the destination, this avoids time dilation
Actually... about 94% of the observable universe is already out of reach at light speed. This is due to the expansion of space. So, we'll still need to develop warp drive.
@@yojimbo3681 true. I totally forgot about that
I'm afraid not.
Reaching a relevant portion of light speed is by itself probably more difficult than creating some kind of mumbo jumbo scifi space bending engine.
Even at 90% Light speed you'd still only be roughly 2x time dilated, and that by itself is nearly physically impossible. Only a couple of things in the universe reach such a speed
I love these kind of videos, they give me hope that," Mankind was born on earth. It was never meant to die here".
where do you want to die? ))
yet to be demonstrated
Who in their right mind would have said that?
@@ronnietrek6376probably Elon
@@scruffyLG Cooper said that
The beauty of CG is you can make dreams like these a reality.
sheng di ya ge hang mu shang you mei you ji xing jian yu?
@@jingxie3714sorry what?
Nope. This is still a dream but visualized.
truee, it's incredible
We already have craft that can do this faster. "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… ...anything you can imagine we already know how to do."-Ben Rich, Director of Lockheed's Skunk Works
I wish it didn't end... it was a transcendental experience. The most gripping video I've seen here in a while
The end sounded the beginning of the good stuff!
when you said from mars to saturn in 6.7 minutes I got goosebumps
I don't know why but me too ...
@@jabeztadesse OVER-G would kill you, thats why
А потом мы вспоминаем, что последние 20 лет на МКС космонавтов и астронавтов доставляли ракеты России. Это невольно заставляет задумываться о том, что Голливуд ушёл за рамки кинотеатров, и не смотря на то, что видео мы видим очень красивые, но реальность очень далека даже от "высадки на Луну". Кстати, реальный цвет Луны - коричневый. Парадокс😁
Мечтать нужно, и нужно стремиться осуществить свои мечты, но вот ложь ни к чему хорошему не приводит.
@@user-yq1rc1ti2l С дивана встань сначала, теоретик домашний и перестань смотреть помои которые тебе с России 1 в твою пустую черепушку вливают, а потом в окопы иди воевать ЗА РОДИНУ!
Me too
And people wonder why others love Star Trek so much. Not just for the Sci Fi aspect of it, but for what humans can actually achieve by putting all of our petty differences aside. My only sadness is, that it may not happen in my lifetime to see this if it's actually achieved.
I still watch Startrek to this day lol
This is sci fi bro
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Nobody said it wasn't. But it's an incredible tool for people to start dreaming about the impossible- and maybe make it happen. Innovation is caused by those allowing themselves to dream and as long as we keep on dreaming, we will keep innovating.
@@Teeh608 experiment causes innovation not dreams
@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatmanimagination causes great progress, without dreams and imagination, humanity wouldn’t exist and there would be no progress at all…
What we need is "Ludicrous Speed"! 🚀🌟😆
Yes😅
GASP LUDICROUS SPEED? sIR WEVE NEVER GONE that fast before I don’t know if the ship can handle it!!!
@@joelvanwinkle5976what’s wrong Colonel Sanders. chicken
And Ludicrous Energy.
You'll see plad!
Watched this absolute gorgeous video in the middle of the night and shed a tear.
When did we as a species, stopped looking at the stars and always fighting over our differences?
We stopped looking at the stars when we lighted up our streets during the night. Most people in big cities have never truly seen the night sky in their entire lives.
@@yvan2563 For real. I moved from a big city to the Argentinian Patagonia. I'm amazed to be able to see even colors in the night sky with the naked eye!
Quite the other way around my friend, at some point when our only concern was survival, we stood up to better see predators and became aware of the infinite heavens strretching above us.
We didn't ever not fight each other. We are tribal mammals who are wired to survive other tribal mammals. Looking at the stars is at best a hobby.
@@scottyb68 Its a metaphor for our hunger of discovery and exploration
As society seems to get crazier and crazier, I periodically come back and watch this video and remind myself that maybe, just maybe, we can come out the other side and accomplish remarkable things.
I've spent my life in the liberal arts... writing, design, photography, music... but have tremendous respect for the men and women working to solve these problems right now!
Thank you for this.
Continue to be inspired!
Gene Roddenberry might be correct that at the end of civilization is when humanity's moment shines true.
The Wheel built the first civilization
The Alternator build the second(current and on a collapse course)civilization
The Warp Engine might create the third civilization
@@TheMegamanDX But first, there were the Eugenics Wars.
If only more people went into STEM
Look im a huge Star Trek fan but hahahahahahahahahahahah this will never be a reality hahahahahahahahahahahahah
The CGI in this video was fantastic guys!
Thank you for the support. We hope more people share it and understand what we are doing.
Flat earther1!!1
Videos like these really make me dream, all the incredible things humanity might see one day.
Traveling that kind of distance in less than 6 Months sounds unreal, I cannot even imagine the scientific discoveries that a journey to such a distant location would bring forward@@LimitlessSpaceInstitute
😂👍🏽
Knowing that one day we might be able to overcome the constrains of time and distance, made me think everything matters so much more now.
Isnt it insane that even when flying a space bending starship you still need 5 months to reach another Star!? Really gives you a better underderstanding on how vast the distances in our universe really are.
Also amazing production really loved it!
And to reach farther star (500 light years and beyond) would still require several decades lol
And that's faster than light
Awesome! Godspeed!
Minerva
Anyways, as Jesus Christ…
I find it baffling that physicists all across the world do not express interest in the only real method of interstellar travel: light propulsion.
I work at NASA, and I am about to ask President Biden for a giant laser to propel a high temperature shape memory alloy torque tube-steered solar-sail to 20% the speed of light, reaching the Centauri’s in around 20 years, (if peak velocities check out with what God told me in my dreams.)
Talk about “more than 20/20 vision babe,” because from my POV I even have the intellectual freedom to disprove the Big Bang, as the red-shift of photons across vast distance is not caused by the alleged expansion of the universe with matter moving away from us, but because the wavelengths of light stretch into longer wavelengths causing red-shift, as they follow the distance traveling through dips along the space-time continuum which appears longer than the true displacement across space alone.
I just won the Nobel Physics Prize in a TH-cam comment, but no one cares because that is how simulations work. Any Ways, I will find My Way someday. - Love Avery
@@averyoto just wanna let you know that nobody cares because you're one of the many mentally ill people who think they're geniuses, not because of the simulation. Whether we're in a simulation or not doesn't affect people caring, their response to you would be simulated. Their response is to simply move on.
@@averyoto It is certainly worth a "starshot" lol...
We could probably get those little buggers to go even faster than 20%, and could effectively release them this decade is NASA has a greater budget than a Southern Football College. But priorities am I right?
@@gabrielperez-ze9tk Well since I am Jesus Christ, I am actually going to auction a NASA Space Force for $2.738 trillion dollars next election. Trump’s “Super Duper Missiles,” 17 times faster than America’s normal missiles, will represent the customary unit (SDM’s) for sub-light speed measurements.
God told me in a dream, 20% the speed of light was near the cap, so if I trust him, it will take just over 9000 SDM’s to reach vessel voyage velocities. If adopted, MemeLord can power level the DragonBallZ SuperSaijin reference, so astronauts can gauge light on a scale with feasible digits, which better represent our beloved reality’s/TV show’s sense of style in grading performance after longterm gravity training on any contenders, channeling their core-crush (Ariana Grande) cruising along those photon beams through the deep void.
Thank You (Archangel) Gabriel, for your causation from God’s Will to meet old metric misnomers with our new American scope.
Research engineer here. Long story short, start with instruments.
Alcubierre-style drives require a type of negative energy field. The first attempts to create it in a lab will probably make only tiny ones. So, the first order of business won't be to create a field, but to create instruments capable of measuring tiny ones.
On the bright side, independent confirmation of even a tiny warp-style negative energy field would be international news to say the least. Funding for the next stage should not be a problem.
I estimate the odds of success at less than 10%, but that's not uncommon for research. As long as investors fully understand where the money is going and just how bad the challenges are, this is not a con game, it's just research. A lot more money has been spent on much worse ideas.
That's kinda what they've been doing and they have done laboratory tests: th-cam.com/video/ZZset72bHLI/w-d-xo.html
The information they have deduced is that they do have some experimental evidence that *points* in the direction of possibility. Its not a real warp bubble but the effects are similar.
all right, so we just need to find a magical force that by coincidence will behave in just the way we want it to. very promising
black holes warp spacetime the same way, also you know other shit like stars and planets@@pablobro5944
We appreciate the nice words William. Research indeed and we cannot stop!
It's really not very promising, I agree. Realistically, traversing the stars will less involve going fast, and moreso involve modifying the crew to handle the distance. I predict that the first successful interstellar colony will be started by a von neumann probe full of human genomes. @@pablobro5944
-Thought this was just another CGI short film (the animators should be proud it is absolutely beautiful) but then I see it's a real institute. You go girl, chase that warp bubble.
How did you know it’s a girl?
Those animations were incredible! I hope this becomes reality.
This is also my dream! Sometimes at night I imagine what would be if I had chosen another way of life and work for kind of those projects. Who else is dreaming?
Me
Maximilian.
The book "Death's End" by Cixin Liu explores this topic extremely well, with all the problems and time paradoxes it implies
I saw that it's a trilogy. Is it worth reading?
@@rashijain708 those books are one of the best scifi book of all time
Is it ismilar to the Forever War by Haldeman? That's more of a time dialation mindfuck (like the anime Gunbuster and Voices of a Distant star)
@@Warsie I don't recognize those, however I can safely say the three body trilogy is one of the best sci-fi works ever written, it's utterly brilliant
@@MrJackass692 The Forever War got a Hugo Awards in the 1970s, so it was pretty good then. Think of it as a sort of deconstruction of Starship Troopers by Heinlein (and Heinlein congratulated Haldeman on ths book!)
We ought not to delude ourselves, because 'SPEED' is but the first hurdle in this quest for space travel !
Having heard what it takes to relocate and occupy a planet other than Earth, it's best not to delude oneself with thinking one can travel in one's lifetime in the 21st. century to another planetoid enjoy a meaningful life .. !
#meganfoxkun #Ethereumtrillion
The world is waiting for a new dream to capture our cooperation. I want to live to be part of this future.
I'm crying watching this, Dr. White.
I remember years ago first finding and reading your research papers on the warp field interferometer tests and commentary on improving energy efficiency on fuel supply for the Alcubre drive after that and then reading that the negative energy requirement is actually not necessary and that we can actually do this with real energy capacitors! THEN there was that paper that came out that explored optimal warp field configurations to further improve fuel efficiency!!! It all just seems to be getting closer and closer every year and it's truly exciting!
I only wish I could help somehow.
I would love to read those papers, if you could please point me in the right direction?
@@C.Sharpe
Warp Field Mechanics 101 ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110015936/downloads/20110015936.pdf
Warp Field Mechanics 102 ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20130011213/downloads/20130011213.pdf
Efficient Warp Field Configurations
arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07125.pdf
The First Warp Bubble
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09484-z
Yeah and we need a freaking black hole to make this possible. This will one day happen if humanity survives until then, but definitely not in our lifetime..
First of all, a round of applause to the people that put together this video. It was truly inspiring and informative. I love how a sense of scale is driven home with each propulsion drive and how long the journey would take. Carl Sagan would be proud.👍👍👍
Informative? It's 99% fiction.
100%
What you don’t understand is that this kind of physics is impossible o any conceivable timescale
My desire is to hear this outcome in my lifetime. I believe it is going to be a real dream.
By far, the most interesting & complex planet providing the greatest opportunity to expand our knowledge of nature is Earth.
Watching the original Star Trek series back in the 70s & 80s as a weee lad, I would stare through the tv screen imagining what I'd be doing in an interstellar society.
Seeing this video as a 54 year old fella, I'm still staring through screens, as I watch/hear the myriad of future possibilities, imagining what I'd be doing in that reality.
This was a wonderfully edited video & narration. The visuals were surreal.
Cheers, & keep us staring through screens, imagining!
This WILL NOT be possible on this lifetime and probably not on the next either. But the other guy that adds to that, that we will be extinct withing a century because of war and overpopulation is a zealot
This sent tingles down my spine. Just the idea of travelling such vast distances is truly amazing. Once we are able to sever our reliance on Earth for our survival the future of our species will be much more certain.
The more powerful you become the more capable you're in destroying yourself
@@_martian101 Is that true though? We have certainly become more powerful and more intelligent. Those are both qualities that we could use to destroy ourselves or to grow. Considering that our populations have been steadily increasing I would suggest that the latter is the case.
@@donaldstrachan2750 it's easier to destroy than to build, so yeah humanity will always tend to destroy themselves, intelligence mixed with greed and ego is the indicator of self destruct capability, today destroying the world is as easy as press a button, in the future wiping out the entire human race will be even more easier despite they spread across many galaxies.
@@_martian101 I hear what you are saying. For sure our ability to do so has vastly increased. We could wipe ourselves out entirely within a few days/weeks probably. However, that is not what has happened in reality.
In reality, the human species has been consistently growing since our very earliest beginnings.
@@_martian101 More evidence to use that power responsibly then and distribute it as decentralised as possible.
Crazy, gives me a feeling unlike any movie, a combination of proud for what humanity can and is doing, excitement for the future and even a bit of fear.
Space and the fascination with the possibility of an Interstellar travel always makes me excited and hope that it happens within my lifetime !
This is extremely well done! Thank you for taking the time to share this beautiful work of art with those who love space and dreaming of our future among the stars
Thank you for the support!
Absolutely gorgeous animations, even the idea of that ship that plays with space around it is cool (i know that it`s pretty old, some nasa concepts have been around for a while), makes me think of situations like "Guys, who wants to go to Enceladus with me? You have 40 minutes to pack your things and then we'll be there in 5 minutes"
We certainly could not do this without Erik Wernquist. Collaborating together made this master piece unique! We appreciate the kind words.
the ftl ship is based off a nasa concept vessel using alcubure warp drive
La idea no es de la NASA si no de una persona Hispana
@@TAKIZAWAYAMASHITAno es de la NASA
I would like to surround myself with such people working to understand what matters most
While we're in the "we can do anything" mood, we need to solve our problems here on earth as well!
Not as well, alas... first. Planet first, space once we actually know what we're doing to/for/with the planet. If you look around, after thousands of years of the republic, we don't. We don't educate the young- we sell education to them at an incredibly horrendous mental and physical price and are leaving each succeeding generation to clean up a bigger and bigger mess with less and less resources. Not being disrespectful, I love reading about space and science, but I'd much favor the here and now over the pie in the sky when it comes to priorities. ;)
6 months to Alpha Centauri is unbelievable to think about, space is so big but to think of human influence extending that far already in the cosmos is inspiring - our first interstellar foothold
As a fellow human, I wouldn't want human influence reaching the cosmos. I mean look at how we're doing here on earth 😂
That's roughly 4.367 LY in 6 months time. So, call it an even 9 LY traveled per year. It would STILL take roughly THREE THOUSAND YEARS to get to the center of just our own galaxy.
Space is unfathomably massive.
@@johnothwolo As a fellower humaner I do believe whe are allowed to influence the cosmos to our will, be it benevolent or evil. And weak under-achievers like yourself will not stop humanity in doing so.
@hodisfut someone doesn't know about the secret space program ... We have already traveled all over our solar system and beyond. And have been since the 50s. Its sad that's they're doing this behind our back but that's why the disclosure is coming out more and more every day it seems.
@@johnothwolowe’re doing great actually
When I took a class on relativity in college, and my prof taught about time dialation... he said we're never to go there ...and back.. I almost cried, believing that Star Trek could be true.
the ship doesn't move faster than the speed of light, rather it bends space to reach the destination, this avoids time dilation.
just because FTL is impossible doesn’t mean we can’t make it there and back in a human lifetime
we just need to go incredibly fast (not quite as fast as the ship in this video, but fast enough)
This video is breathtaking! Amazing visuals👌
the sheer amount of challenges to achieve this are immense, for starters, how to controll such a ship in space with that speed, how to controll debree and everything else arounf the ship and also how to stop it..
Wish I could be around to be apart of that kind of adventure
Breathtaking footages and illustrations. Hope this film and their creators get a lot of attention and the appreciation its deserves. Come on Algorithm, DO SOMETHING
We hope to gain the attention you mentioned. Thank you for the support.
I absolutely love the graphics , animation and the narration. Keep up the great work.
Super film congratulations Limitless Space Institute
Imagine what humanity could do with an O'Neill Cylinder that is equipped with an Alcubierre Drive!
forget one of them, how about a billion of them?
@@adamh1228forget about a billion how about self replicating O'Neil cylinders equipped with alcubierre drives
@@BumHoleTickler now we are talkin!
How about we equip an entire ring world with an Alcubierre drive I stead
@@joelvanwinkle5976 I like that! How about a Banks Orbital with an alcubierre warp drive!
Directed and animated by Erik Wernquist, I knew it the moment it started. He's the mastermind who made Wanderers.
Yeah, I definitely got some Dune and Halo vibes from this.
Incase people are curious, the last spaceship uses something called the "Alcubierre drive"
thank you
Alcubierre drive is theoretical and not actually proven to work. Its working physics is beyond our current technological capabilities by centuries if ever.
Yep, and sadly it will not work. Even if the weird physics to make it work somehow is solved.
The energy cost is so stupidly high the craft is unable to carry the fuel or reactor that's needed to make it work - here I talk about nuclear fuel meaning Tritium + He3 or better.
No reactor that's have to be fitted inside a ship can be made to work on such an energy level either. Not even if one bring a tame black hole - which would be the ultimate energy converter.
It's the energy equivalent of many +10 000 of stars at the same time, and to have that process running for the entire trip.
So it's a big dream, but it simply will not happen well except........
If humanity do extremely well and we become a Kardashev III civ in the far far future, then those distant descendants of us might do it once or twice just to show off.
...or if they find they have urgent need to look at something new or unexpected.
But for our dreams of going elsewhere and colonise new worlds, we better take better care of our backyard first, it will be only a small fraction of a ‰ of the very best and suitable that can go, and only on slow boat. And possibly only as stored templates, to be reconstructed on arrival. To travel physically in your own body look quite unlikely. The ideas about freezing and other various ideas of keeping the passengers in long term dormant state fail to address the problem of radiation that will break down both the genetic code, and over time also cause damage to vital enzymes and hormones - while the repair mechanisms for those will be frozen and dormant as well and so unable to repair the damage.
So perhaps we humans can piggyback in a memory storage array, and perhaps have replicants of ourselves made at any destination - which would be cool.
But the universe belong to the machines, and the idea of cute little spaceships with windows and a star ship captain that say 'engage' and add a dramatic hand gesture...... is by far the least probable scenario we'll ever see.
@@yashpatel261 we need to be at least a type one or two civilization in the "Kardashav scale" to even consider something like a warp drive , currently , we are a 0.00002 type of civilization , too primitive because we still using fossil fuels , and a warp drive isn't even possible , you'll need at least the power and the mass of a black hole reduced to fit in a spaceship , it's impossible with the current tech !
@@offlinegamer6756we're type 0.7 actually
I came across a 2008 White Paper a few days ago regarding the emulation of mass via lasers confined within an electromagnetic torus. Unfortunately the paper was rather ambiguous as to points of convergence, number of lasers required for a theoretical model, or if any gaseous medium was required for interaction (ie. H2 etc), still while the concept read as unintended to be considered in application of "Warp Drive", it was still incredibly interesting.
Merci. The Mermaid.
Did it include the emulation of negative mass? You absolutely can emulate mass with photons, it just takes a hell of a lot of them.
@@PuckLokin "A hell of a lot of them" is exactly why I expressed disappointment in the paper not making any mention of any gaseous medium. From what little I can remember the Paper unfortunately leaned far more into vague theoretical concepts as opposed to any concept of application.
Someone is actually working on turning light into mass.
@@robertwalhout8982 Would love to read the research if you have any links?
Space travel is literally the most exciting and important thing we can ever accomplish.
No, survival as a species in the near future is.
Anything man has ever dreamed of has become reality eventualy. 😊✌
That quote gives me chills. The sky calls to us.
I am certain this is inspiring the past, present and emerging scientists to make this possible.
First time I saw a picture of IXS Enterprise, my mouth dropped! Outstanding video. I'm glad you guys are pushing for these projects to be done!
Good to know I wasn't the only one.😮
Once we explored seas. Next we explore the stars. Now united as one, Humans ✊
THIS IS THE MOST INSANE THING I'VE EVER SEEN.
I cant put into words how this 4 minute film felt for me, it was... othewordly.
okay...here's what we do: we build a large spacecraft section (cylindrical, spins for artificial gravity). then, we build at least 4 Fusion engine modules and align them like a "+" at the back of the spacecraft. then, we build a protective shield at the front of the spacecraft, since the goal for this idea is to make the spacecraft go at least 10% the speed of light. at this speed, unprotected spacecraft would be literally eroded away by microdust particles. the spacecraft could house a maximum of 10,000 people, but the starting passenger count is anywhere from 100-200. This spacecraft, theoretically, could reach proxima centauri in 50 years time. We dont need an alcubiere drive. we just need to keep on adding fusion engines and shielding systems until the travel time gets to around 5-10 years. NASA, just give me a call and I can get you a design that will get you to alpha centauri in a reasonable timeframe.
Trollface physics be like
До мурашек....
Дай Бог чтобы так оно и было!!!
We born too early to explore the cosmos. Just if this somehow is achievable, could change EVERYTHING. I really crossfingers everytime space x launch a rocket (even more with starship) this are just crazy big steps for us, for a possible golden-age of travel across the universe and finding new things out there. One day we'll make it.
Yes, I too enjoy science fiction
Loved "Wanderers " by Erik Wernquist a short film that is another truly awe inspiring short.
Gracias por compartir de lujo ❤
This is why I love this stuff. The seemingly impossible becoming possible and that can be through the work we do.
Probably the best video of its kind I've ever seen. Clear, simple, insightful and inspiring.
Love it. A great vision, and a beautiful visualization.
But... could we let Sonny White stay heads-down in his lab where we need him (thank you Mr. White!), and hire a voiceover artist to do these promo bits? Specialization has got us this far.
I become curious when watch these kinds of videos. The animation when the ship is warping make me really want to go there. Congrats such a beautiful video, easy to understand.
Thank you, this was wonderful I will do my part giving the message to my kids. Curiosity must not end.
Excellent video, keep us informed about the news, success for the LSI and the channel! Greetings from Brazil!
man this was beautiful, I really wish it was longer it was so good. Great work
Wow, that was an amazing presentation. Lets go!!
This is such an amazing concept and I wish to see this in my lifetime.
Will not happen. For those of us on this little blue marble right now, we are tethered to this planet. Almost seems like we should take care of it.
you will
@@Mr__Singularity definitely not lmao
@@antigenesi That's your opinion. I am pretty sure(not 100%, but let's say 90%) that we will have FTL tech before 2050
@@karlmonet who would have said 80 years ago that we are about to build quantum computers?
This is one of the best visualizations of faster than light speed comparisons that I have ever seen! Great work guys. And just so you know, the later concept from an engineering perspective is much closer to actuality than anyone currently thinks. The problem is that we may end by our ignorance and self-indulgent ego before we acquire the capability of travelling around our galactic neighbourhood. A cosmologist from the 1970s who was in the SETI discussions once theorized that the reason we do not see evidence of alien intelligence is that when a civilization achieves the capability of destroying itself instantly, ... well it does because there is a self destructive feature of intelligence which is neurosis. Societies fall under a neurotic self-centred self-cannibalizing event that destroys the intelligence from existence. This is why we maybe currently at the end of our existence with the never-ending war machines we have built.
We can go fast in space no doubt. Warp drive is far from reach.
For real. They act like the warp drive is just around the corner and all we need is a little bit more cooperation to make it happen...no no way our technology is hundreds if not thousands years away from tech like that I wish but that just so much seems like Year 3,000 technology at best
Excellent presentation!
Props to the cameraman who was already waiting for the ship to arrive at Proxima!
For the survival and future of humankind we need to make this a reality, and we need it fast.
We must trash more planets.
The end of this video gave me a small existential crisis. I imagined looking up at the sky and not seeing our star, it slightly freaked me out. Like I was looking at a lie. For me at least it would do very not good things to my mental state if I actually did that.
All that aside great video!!
Thank you ❤
You guys are among the best in the world at popularizing interstellar travel. Hope to see content more often from you guys, been knowing about you since Wanderers.
This awesome video looks like an intro to a blockbuster sci-fi film in the same line as "Interstellar" ...
Tears flow from my eyes. Wish I could to be around when all this wonders happens. Our future is certainly in the stars.
This was visually beautiful and absolutely inspiring to watch.
Great video. As a sci-fi writer, this inspires me.
Really clean and fleshed out animation, props to the team.
Make it so.
your video is beyond than excellence
I think currently the biggest issue with our Physics is that we have very little understanding of Gravity and we don’t know the fundamental particles responsible for gravity, once we figure out that i am 100% sure we can go faster than the speed of light…
Interesting video. The speed of light is so fast, but the distances of the universe are unimaginably immense.
Props to the 3d artists for these amazing concepts and visuals❤
first time here, the quality is astonishing
Really cool short film !!
Warp drive engaged!!!
yes, sci-fi, I knew we only needed those pulse engines. I'm glad we actually can do them.
An invention like this would instantly solve all of humankind's petty disputes over territory and resources. All of a sudden we would have access to an infinite amount of space and resources, almost making them mealiness.
The amount of energy for any of these would also be an interesting challenge for us as a species: any starship able to achieve significant fractional-c velocities is a planet killer.
You underestimate humanities capacity for hatred, jealousy and closed mindedness. War and destructions will alsways follow us, no matter where we go and how far we run.
But not all hope is lost because music and art and philosphy and love and kindness will always be found where humans are.
loved this video please do more
Amazing video, I felt myself inside my favorite movie "Interstellar", but with a kind of hope that it can be real.
such an awesome video and great narration Sonny!!
We will get there😁❤💯👍
It's a great step to future, Roadmap to Next Generation..........❤❤❤❤❤
Wonderful video. It captures one of my greatest dreams for humanity. Subscribed!
No. Why fashion will be faster than nuclear? 😂 Both are equal.
Also it is wrong estimation. Such ships have low acceleration (as example Zeus nuclear locomotive which Russia building - it need 100 days to reach Moon from Earth’s orbit), but they have permanent acceleration, each second. So, you can launch such locomotive and wait some time until it will not accelerate to appropriate speed. In result you can reach Saturn not for 2 years, but few months.
Warp engine just impossibly.
What the...?? Why does the details look so incredible lifelike? I'm a bit speechless. Great Work!