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That Einstein guy was a real bummer for our hopes of a star-hopping, science-fiction-y future. His whole “nothing travels faster than light” rule seems to ensure that exploration of even the local part of our galaxy will be an excruciating slow. But Einstein also gave us a glimmer of hope. He showed us that space and time can be warped - and so the warp drive was conceived. Just recently, a couple of papers contend that these are not pure science fiction.
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from more energy than the rest mass of the entire observable universe to a quarter of the sun's mass, that's what I call progress
...or the Flintstones
yea
In 10 years everyone will have a warp drive in their phone.
A progress for aliens but impossible for humans
@@YuureiInu lmfao
I love how Science Fiction causes real scientists to investigate, and sometimes Sci Fi actually makes real predictions. It is beautiful.
I hope to see more of it
Life imitates art?
Science fiction causes itself to become science fact
It's why I love it so much! I'm writing a novel right now that plays around with Higgs particles and mass reductions. Psuedo-science all the way but tons of fun regardless!
Ancient technology, is being rediscovered by the regular person, but already plausible by the few.
I just love the idea that warp field theory is nearly an actual field of science.
It is a classified field at DoD and the U.S. intelligence community
"Nearly an actual field" is an interesting idea.
"Interesting" in the sense of those "proof that 0=1" gags.
@@wealthmaterialized And somehow you're privy to it.
@@Red-Brick-Dream knowing something is classified & really being aware whats going on are 2 different things tho!
If God is good, I will live long enough to see the AWWD become implemented successfully in the real world.
This dude's channel made me realize just how little understanding I actually have of the world I exist in, and it's pretty terrifying. I wonder if all physicists go through an existential crisis when they go through school
Yes.
Yeah
Welcome to the other side
The vast majority just live in ignorant bliss , more bothered about “ love island” and lip filler
@@adamjohnston5250 It is what it is.
"although they remain somewhat insane" is probably the best line I've heard in months, thank you for it.
God vs God is next -- Is I vs I Am. ready in a minute at the slightest provocation -- even if it's fake. Then, the Re-Set on 09/23/26 or SOONER. That's when we unveil our NEON GAUD. hint: In GAUD we Trust. Men have proven they will lie and cheat and steal if allowed to govern themselves. And so ends our 250-year experiment in self-government.
Epochal Eclipse a CROSS the US on April 8th 2024, when more shall be revealed to those with "eyes and ears." The rest will see only an eclipse. Don't stare at the sun.
The next morning, April 9th, the aliens ask -- audio only --
"Will Earthians ever agree on our creator?"
Exercise faith, if you want to "SEE" anything.
Only in theoretical physics could the phrase "although they typically remain somewhat insane" be met with a fist pumped into the air and a shout of "Yes! Now we're getting somewhere!"
The reason the stars are so far apart is because the evolutionary creatures of the inhabited worlds of space and time, are of animal-origin. They are naturally bellicose and quarrelsome -- until they evolve. Men will never be allowed beyond their own solar system, until they can end war among themselves.
Achievable insanity is the best kind of insanity.
just a guess based on my layman's understanding of physics and astronomy, but i doubt ftl will be achievable without some kind of insane technology, whatever it turns out to be.
@@humboldthammer Dude stars don't care, they're balls of burning gas, wtf? Is this an inside joke or...?
@@RolaiEckolo I did NOT ascribe free will to the stars. Stop pretending. There will be an Epochal Eclipse a CROSS the US April 8th 2024, when more shall be revealed to those with 'eyes and ears."
Don't expect to "see" or "hear" anything, bro. Over 93% of men and women are nearly deaf and blind spiritually. That's a FACT. Do your own survey -- or simply ask God yourself. WHY should you be any different?
First thing they teach you in Pilot school at Starfleet Academy: Never Left or Right above the speed of light.
That is because, at FTL, left becomes space and right becomes time.
It's a Speed Limit
@@RME76048 du
@@RME76048 Left wasn't already space?
"Faster than light, no left or right."
As a life long fan of Star Trek, I love how it's inspired so many things we see in our lives today. I have no doubt humanity will figure out how to visit the stars!!
Well we can visit the solar systems within those stars but we cannot actually land on a star we would be incinerated.
@@DarkMonster771 I think it would be implied coming from a life long Trekie 🥲.
I think we need to learn the most fundamental thing first........how to stop killing each other and the planet that "we don't own". We're merely custodians. I think that should be top of the "to do" list. The United States had a budget Last year of a trillion dollars for their defence programme!!!! We're not nice guys!!! I'm also convinced that somewhere in America this technology exists. To quote a very well known director of a certain highly classified organisation ( now retired) " everything you can think of from your sci-fi shows, we already have or have done". Mis-information?? You decide. But way back when Bob Lazar came out as a whistleblower and said he knew which element these E.T's used in their craft (element 115....if I recall) everybody thought......crank, hoax etc etc. But since then scientists have discovered element 115 and a now also retired person confirmed Lazar did indeed work at Area 51, specifically back engineering space craft. And it's now widely accepted by the MUFON organisation that we have our own space craft. It's fascinating and more and more credible witnesses are coming forward e.g. ex air force, scientists, and actual people who have seen these things. Just listen to Buzz Aldron. Why, when we got to the moon, immediately when Neal Armstrong disembarked from the lunar lander did he switch radio channels to the medical group and say "they are here we can see them and they can see us"??? and it all just gets washed over. Full disclosure on these issues is coming in my opinion. And it's not because it would cause mass panic it's because a significant amount of people and companies would lose an enormous amount of money. That's just a fact. It's almost an insult to people's intelligence when they hit us with these mis-information campaigns. We HAVE the technology that would make oil, gas, petrol etc redundant and obsolete which of course has the potential to make a positive impact on climate change!!!. Anyway if you've read this far lol thank you but yeah.......I think first things first....humanity needs to find a way to try and get along. Not going to happen I hear you say and sadly I agree. If these E.T.s are visiting us which I think they are. I'm also thinking are they just scouting us and sitting back saying...." uch let them wipe themselves out then we'll take the planet and it's resources then move on to the next". I point you to a podcast with James Fox. He's brought a film out called moment of contact. Please listen to it. It is "Astonishing". It's about a space craft crash in Varganhia in Brazil......it will make you think guys. Anyhoo thanks for reading and sorry about the size of the reply lol🙈🙈
We will that is if its in our actual form or our future one well found it and right after that well deiscover dimensions and after that well discover longevity and after that well discover every aspect this universe and all of his dimensions has to show us then well find out new universes and maybe the fabric of it AND maybe a day.. i said maybe a day well find the final goal the thing that goes waaaaay out of our actual comprehension of everything.. maybe well discover why life why elements.. why anything ?
Like the flip-Communicator into the flip phone. Watch-style communicators - the apple watch you can talk into. Touchscreen computer screens, for example.
I love it whenever Matt moves so fast he becomes Gabe.
My 3 year old son sometimes show hints of having these insane energy levels.
LMAO
@The Larger E Okay, Wachowski.
Good, I’ll send you some Spacetime. Oh wait it’s an immaterial concept that’s good for nothing
@@neildown7231 Naughty boy ;')
@@Felishamois I’m bad😂
The Krasnikov tube has to be one of the funniest things I've heard on this channel and sounds eerily reminiscent of Douglas Adams.
It wouldn't be completely useless, as you could observe stars too many lightyears away to be visible from Earth. If you could get to the edges of the galaxy, you might be able to see beyond where the milkeyway blocks our view of other galaxies in those directions. Right now, we can only see other galaxies above or below our own.
"It never occurred to me to think of Space as the thing that was moving." -Scotty, TAOS.
Star Trek really out here predicting the future. Cell phones, pads, now warp travel... lol
I remember that from 2009 Star Trek movie . . . I loved that movie saw it in the theatre when it came out . . . Also . . . I am Spock. . . Bullshit !!!
This is Earl the real og question what r u humans looking for real stop being stupid old saying take care of home first earth the creator made earth for humans b happy we are part of this beautiful universe we have a mind to go anywhere that is our star ship enjoy the ride stop looking simple no beginning no ending peace
@@earlredding6756 "The creator" Yeesh. Self made. No creator evident or necessary.
Makes me think of the quote from the Professor in Futurama: "It came to me in a dream. The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it."
@@Gohka exactly he just describes a warpdrive from the perspective of a person inside the bubble!
I love the shout-out to Gabe Perez-Giz at 12:14. For newcomers, Gabe was the PBS SpaceTime host a few years ago.
I thought I was the only one who noticed that
Mexicans: We have a solution, but it would take all the energy in the galaxy and would be unsteerable.
Russians:
We have a solution but we can only travel in circles.
Alcubierre's solution is even weirder than that: It would essentially be an FTL missile that just drops right out of the universe.
The world needs to come together guys 🙂
Can we make a surfboard that rides the gravitational waves?
@@reasonerenlightened2456 yeah sure, and risk falling into the vaccum of space at sub 0 temperatures. Sounds like fun
Italians: sounds good, we'll have to go through 5 teams of mgmt first.
"might create a blackhole"
The great filter in effect.
Nah, it will work. "click"
HAHAHA!!! Great observation. Ilmao...
Wai-wai-wait aren't Black holes COMPOSED of "dark energy"? What about making some sort of on/off switch for a "Dark field" generator in space for spaceships? It would produce the black hole powering the drive which would make the bending field. If we could reliably deactivate black holes in space and harness their power, we could "slingshot" through space faster than light!
@@ssjsmith8879 If only our technology was that far advanced to perform such a task!
What could go wrong? Haha.
Meanwhile, our most sophisticated energy solutions still involve making steam in order to move rotors in order to produce electricity - Yes, nuclear reactors, yes.
Well I mean things like TECs exist but they are horribly inefficient.
I heard Kardashev saying something about a scale we can't even be measured on yet. Yeah, a long ass road being traveled here
No. The most interesting proposed Fusion technique uses an electric field to create a twisted magnetic field.
The fusion fuel is forced together just a few molecules at a time.
The reaction creates gamma rays and free electrons.
The gamma rays strike aluminum foil, causing more electrons to move.
how about we just use the heat of the fusion plasma to heat water，it is actually pretty efficient（altho abit too large for a ship
If it ain't broke...
Starfleet Academy 2241 student : "Im doing pre-warp theoretical warp science, they were sooo close for such a long time its sad!"
@Degenerate Deuterium Oh, I think it would - but the vast majority of people would sit at home and consume the free food and use AI developed computer games.
A few - those "Wanderers" ... would however yearn for the open road.
So you'd still have education. And Starfleet.
@@JohnGwinner Good points. I recommend Isaac Arthur's videos he goes over how "just because there's post-scarcity doesn't mean there still won't be people who travel to other stars/do other similar things"
12:14 Matt already breaks causality. He's gotten younger and more Aussie since the first episodes of Spacetime
Uhhh, that wasn't Matt. It is Gabe Perez-Giz, the original host.
That's the joke.
'Loopholes' makes theoretical scientists sound like lawyers of the law of physics.
My client, in fact, did not break the laws of physics
@@jamesgoldring1052 He merely, went around them.
Thanks for making me laugh 😆
Aren't scientists supposed to find ways to bypass the law of physics? So that we can make technological advances we've been doing that for centuries
It's good to remember that technology we call science fiction could be here in 50 years easily.
Because merely 50 years ago today's understanding of the universe and our current technology would have seemed like thing of the far distant future. Yet here it is.
Science-Denial is literally eroding Society like barely anything else.
Not just in its most crystalized and clear form; Flat-Earthers; but just in general:
This is all so problematic and damn-good Reason to support Science-TH-camrs,
who right now try to fight back against Myths and Misinformation... and Bigfoot...
Please go out of youre way to search for more. Even if you dont have the time to watch 'em,
you can literally just sub-and-leave, which does help.
For sure. People need to understand that our current “understanding” of the universe might not be as accurate as we think it is.
Eh, I'm pessimistic about faster-than-light. He says it breaks causality...
I think Warp Drive will take a lot longer to attain than 50 years dude. More like a thousand years.
@@robertjenkins6132 In a warp drive, you're not moving faster than light. Space is.
I just re-read “Islands of Space” last week. In one of Campbell’s books the characters could see their own ship on either side of them due to space being warped so tightly.
@Zach A "Why is it that when our perceptions of reality break down we realize the nature of it?"
I actually love this
@Zach A That's what I had fun with in your comment. I hope it didn't come off as me saying something negative but rather I respect what you were saying. Not that I was claiming to have answers.
@Zach A I keep my mind open and don't believe in any single thing but I found it fun that in the scenario you had written where mushrooms screwing up ones perceptions has the tendency to make one realize or believe they realized the nature of reality. When I tried mushrooms (Also too much, and spent a good amount of that time on the floor haha) I had felt that I understood something and that something being a thing that there is no way I could recall, or convince myself is the truth now, while sober.
@Zach A I suppose I feared a lot of being judged by you hence my apprehensiveness to immediately provide my own perspective. But I very much agree to you. One of the few things I really remember was going in wondering what was going through my father's mind during his passing and I felt that I got my answer in the way of experiencing it myself. To me at the time felt that I was remembering the nature of everything as opposed to being told it by another source. It felt that only in death can we understand.
Now it is entertaining to me to explore possibilities and others experiences. I feel that the major downside to religion is closing yourself off to other possibilities in fear of having to leave the idea behind of having an answer.
That's interesting !!!
One thing over learned from all my physics classes over the years is that velocity is never the issue...acceleration is always the issue. Glad to see some consistency here
FTL : does not exist
Eric Lenz: FINE ILL DO IT MYSELF!
Dr. Erik Lentz seems like a really cool dude. He actually recently gave a 1 hour presentation about his paper where he explained it in a way that even I (not being a physicist) was able to understand (some) things. You can find it if you search for "Science Speaker Series: Dr. Erik Lentz" on TH-cam. He also has a blog where he posts about his continuing warp drive research. He wants to solve the remaining issues, like too high energy requirement, and he is actually optimistic that he, or someone else, will be able to do that in the "next few years" to then be able to start small-scale experiments in the lab to experimentally proof that his equations are correct. He said that in this first paper, he has not yet looked at any of the optimizations that might be possible to get the energy requirement down, and he mentioned it might be possible to get the energy down by "60 orders of magnitude". In the first paper, he wanted to focus on showing that negative energy is not required, with research about bringing the energy requirement down coming in future papers. I very much recommend watching his talk on TH-cam, and regularly checking his blog for updates.
for the last time im going to explain this once again,warp drive requires exotic matter with negative mass,it's nearly impossable tho it might be possable in a few thousands of years,hoever what we can make realisticly within next few hundred years would be wormhole travel,yeah you heard me right wormhole travel,wormholes aren't exacly the same as black holes sinse the difference is that one makes stable path to another side of hte galaxy wille the other one just eats and only apears as if it could be one of them,but you can never know for sure unless you see it before you die,now wormholes would be much safer bet for FTL
1)we already found and confirmed existance of wormholes
2)we don't know how to stabilize them yet,tho it won't require exotic matter,just enormous amount of energy to stabilize them,like dyson swarm of satelites around the sun type energy.
problems:currently known wormholes are extremely tiny,so much that when scientists observe them they would need a microscope,expanding them to size of a rocket would be tricky,basicly that still doesn't require exotic matter,just enormous amount of enmergy.
@@theicyphoenixrecords5980 Did you even watch the video? The video is about that warp drives now **no longer** require negative energy (exotic matter). Dr. Erik Lentz found a way to get around that requirement, and construct a physically possible warp bubble with only positive energy.
@@theicyphoenixrecords5980 when did we find and confirm the existence of wormholes?!
@@Salafiyahisthehaqq Good question. Of course they haven't.
Love math without universal physical limitations. Makes everything seem possible.
People who edit these videos just don’t get enough credit. There’re just as awesome as Matt. Thanks for another awesome video.
Wait. If "subluminal" warp bubble is possible without exotic matter, then that as a reactionless drive is still gonna be a huge achievement!
Maybe. But what if the energy required is ridiculous?
Can I make a tiny warp drive with a skateboard ,a copper coil, and a battery?! 〰〰〰⚡⚡🔋🔋
@@vikumwijekoon3166 It is still a lack of energy, not an existing amount. Like a lack of weight (aka negative mass) used to make a hovering elevator cabin by having more people leave than went in. In theory it floats!
@@nosuchthing8 only half of the suns engry that aint much for galactic domination
@@notyourfriendlyneighbor2733 👍
The thing I always feel proud about is that humans never give up, they just don't, no matter what!
why would they
Just wait until someone in power got butthurt and start nuclear war
The thing that I always hate is the fact that people disprove ideas because of how impossible it may seem. We should remember that our laws of physics will change overtime and no matter how logical and structured it may seem, there is always a way to go around it.
Tis a blessing and a curse. When we humans try to subvert nature rather than working with it, we create disasters.
@@gregorybrian While i do agree that at the Moment it is in our best interest to preserve Nature, eventually there will be a Point when Nature is simply too inefficient and where it will be completely replaced by artifical Constructs. Nature is born from unthinking chaos, random Mutations with no rhyme or reason, following no direct Plan. While our current Level of Technology is very much a limiting Factor, it will not always be this way. There will be a Point where Humans can do the same thing nature does, without too much effort. But it will be better, because it would not be trial and error that would drive these Constructs but instead logical Minds and calculated Reason.
As much as i would LOVE to see a working FTL Engine, a subluminal warpship would be great too!
Makes one wonder how kind of form they would take. Always interesting to speculate.
A subluminal warp drive would likely not be worth it. Due to not only ridiculously insane energy requirements and…the potential reality-shattering consequences of literally bending the fabric of spacetime.
I think a fractional speed of light engine, meaning 10-15%, not using gravitational “sling” of planets to assist, would be a huge step and is 50-100 years away, maybe AI will come up with some interesting ideas.
@@queensapphire7717I think eventually we’ll get much closer to light speed than 15% even though that’s probably pretty far off. Would be nice if there actually were some loopholes around it.
@@orange_turtle3412 I would argue to the contrary. A subluminal warp ship - IF we overlook the energy requirements - has advantages over a classical relativistic rocket ship:
- Time-wise, it is basically in sync with Earth, so no grandfather paradoxes (I realize this is also a disadvantage in theory... but not really).
- It can be immune to space debris, because of the warp field.
- I'd say it is better for near-c speeds, because impracticality of classic inertial movement at high c fractions will eventually overrun warp drive impracticality.
Also, subluminal warp fields do not have such extreme curvatures and event horizons, so their effects "probably" wouldn't be reality shattering. I still wouldn't activate it near Earth, though.
The fact that people are working on this at all is very exciting.
bet you cannot wait till 2063
@@mobiusone6154 well. I can. I'm not too old just yet and i hope ✝️ranshumanℹsm takes off before then, so i can upload my consciousness into a synthetic brain and lives forever till Super Luminous Drive is eventually invented.
@@mobiusone6154 what happens in 2063. Usually i'm not this ignorant. At the moment all i'm waiting for is the James Webb launch. Have been for about 8 years
@@loneventhorizon once it launches, probably gonna have to wait almost a year for it to properly open up to take pictures and if it does successfully open up and take pictures, going to probably have to wait another year or a half for the company to analyze and release the photos to the public
@@loneventhorizon 2063 is just a time in the Star Trek franchise timeline when we create the first Warp Drive
Dr. Erik Lentz seems like a really cool dude. He actually recently gave a 1 hour presentation about his paper where he explained it in a way that even I (not being a physicist) was able to understand (some) things. You can find it if you search for "Science Speaker Series: Dr. Erik Lentz" on TH-cam. He also has a blog where he posts about his continuing warp drive research. He wants to solve the remaining issues, like too high energy requirement, and he is actually optimistic that he, or someone else, will be able to do that in the "next few years" to then be able to start small-scale experiments in the lab to experimentally proof that his equations are correct. He said that in this first paper, he has not yet looked at any of the optimizations that might be possible to get the energy requirement down, and he mentioned it might be possible to get the energy down by "60 orders of magnitude". In the first paper, he wanted to focus on showing that negative energy is not required, with research about bringing the energy requirement down coming in future papers. I very much recommend watching his talk on TH-cam, and regularly checking his blog for updates.
Very cool!! Thanks
@ You're welcome! One interesting thing Dr. Erik Lentz mentioned in his talk is that, he was a huge Star Trek fan when he was younger, and that ever since then, he wanted to try to make warp drives real. Of course back then, he knew he does not know enough about physics to actually advance the research, so he could not do much more than reading Alcubierres Paper and being generally interested in the topic. But then last year, during lockdown, he felt like he actually has enough knowledge to work on it now, and the time to do it, so he started to sit down and try to find a way to make warp drives possible without the major issue of negative energy being required. I found that whole story very nice, it shows how much one bright mind can advance science, and how much it depends on external factors (like being bored from a lockdown due to a pandemic) to spark such research!
And what it also shows is: People need to have something to spark their interest in the topic. I think, Dr. Erik Lentz himself is a really inspiring person to listen to, and the more people spend "significant brain power" with learning about the actual science behind it (even if just by looking at it from a very high level, like watching his talk), the more likely it is that one of these people then might end up being the next person who actually finds some missing piece of the puzzle to further advance the science of warp drives. Maybe someone reading this comment will be the person who in the future finds that last missing piece of the puzzle! Quite possible!
how about steering ? acceleration of the bubble ? deceleration ?
@@TheGamblermusic Those are still things that need to be investigated. I think "steering" is generally something you don't really need much, so its not a big deal, but acceleration and deceleration are one of the main points Dr. Erik Lentz mentioned as things he'd like to focus on with future research, because that is, after the too high energy requirement, the main thing that needs to be solved for it to make practical sense. He first wants to focus on bringing the energy requirement down though, as knowing how exactly to accelerate or decelerate it does not help much while you need some Jupiters of mass for it to work.
@@TheGamblermusicsome of those things may come in time. this research only began thirty years ago so it's still in its infancy. for example, we've known about nuclear fusion for about a hundred years and yet we are still haven't worked out how to harness fusion for power.
So glad to see this video right after seeing Kyle Hill's!
They are both from the same place Asgard
@Jeremy Harmon aesiiirrr
Hi Kyle Hill's alt account!
This guy is just the black haired version of Kyle Hill
Positively. Science bros 4 life! 🔬⚗️🔭🛰
Paradoxes and inconsitencies may not mean it's impossible, it also could mean that our understanding of things is wrong or incomplete. There must be a way to travel to the stars.
@Tim stro59 How much do I have to drink before those things seem real?
@@lepidoptera9337 You need exotic alcohol and a negative blood alcohol level.
@@grayaj23 That sounds about right. I'll light a Tiki-torch to that!
@@grayaj23 now that was funny!😆
It is well known that our understanding of things is certainly incomplete. No credible scientist on Earth could possibly believe otherwise.
I still remember the day when Dr. Cochran broke the warp speed barrier
Then your being here proves that warp drives cause time travel.
@@harpfully
Actually, Starfleet have Time travel technology.
Can't wait for 2063. Will y'all be joining me in Boseman, Montana?
I preferred Cochrane's progressive attitude to the pointy eared do-gooders in the Enterprise episode. Long live the Terran Empire.
I have a feeling warpdrive might not exist until 2078 .
Captains log 2040 . 39: Reviewed Pre warp warp drive technology, it’s crazy how close they got back in the 2020s
Let's hope future space explorers aren't insane like that early warpdrive guy in First Contact...
or worse get event horizon'ed
Random Gamer Yes indeed it is amazing how close they got in 2020. Well, we need to study some more.
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@Artificial Intelligence just so. We WILL figure it out.
The cardboard warp drive in the end is capable of propelling the occupants towards the future at a speed of approximately 1 second per second
Given the interior bubble of flat space-time, I'd say that about sums it up.
One second per second?! That’s fast! May the Schwartz be with you!
If you run fast enough, spacetime will crush you into a neutron star. First, you'll light up like a star then crunch. 😂
Aren't you already traveling faster than a second per second relative to other people just by being outside of a major gravity well?
@@DeltafangEX like a Tesseract bubble
Reactionless drives would be extremely useful, regardless whether they can be FTL. The mass ratios demanded by the rocket equation make exploring deep space very difficult, even at sublight.
I'm hopeful that warp field solutions requiring negative mass may be made practical, by oscillation of positive mass in proper configuration and frequency; or, we will figure out what negative mass really means once we develop a proper theory of quantum gravity.
The entire concept of negative mass or negative energy doesn't make sense. Energy is the ability to do work. How can you have a negative ability? However, there seems to be new Physics hiding to get around this problem.
Agreed, look into the Mach Effect Gravitational Assist Drive…it uses such mass oscillations and the latest updates on it have been extremely positive. After the whole EM drive debacle I think a lot of people got the cold shoulder on reaction-less propulsion, and the physics used to develop it are much older. However Woodward released a paper on how the oscillations might (~might~) release some of that negative energy. There’s a lot of speculation involved but I’m excited to see where it ends up.
@@madisonbrigman8186 Woodward's theory, and the Woodward's version of a Mach Effect or "Woodward Effect", is almost a throwback to the old "theories of impetus" from John Philoponus, Avicenna, Buridan, etc. Before Newton's concept of inertia, they used to argue that an object needed force to move, but that objects would exert forces on themselves to keep moving. The bulk of the evidence, particularly the Gravity Probe B data and the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment, suggests that there isn't a "Woodward Effect" or "Nordtvedt Effect".
I loved Larry Niven’s massless drive.
We just need a way to convert photons into neutrinos.
@@Jkirk3279 arguably E. E. Doc Smith was first. His Bergenholm drive used a particle accelerator to manipulate the (at the time unknown) particles which "carried mass", and so ships could go "free" (inertia zero) or "inert" (inertia infinite). It was the 1930s and he was talking about ships going at parsecs per hour. :-)
I think we'll get it eventually.
The universe is a vain mistress. She'll let you do anything if you throw enough joules at her.
*applause*
This deserves more recognition
That's one way to understand a concept. Quite unique for my opinion.
absolutely, as long as we travel light, we'll stumble upon watt does and does not work!
Underrated comment 👏😃 and I agree lol
I would not like to die before i see humanity travelling in warp drives.
I suggest you find yourself another goal or you're going to be very disappointed.
@@EnDSchultz1 😭
@@abhayrajsingh7587 Yeah sorry man not in our lifetimes. It might take centuries if it is actually possible. Maybe even millennias.
There are NO warp drives: the universe is a grumpy housewife who loves everything freshly ironed :D
@@EnDSchultz1 I guess it sounds far out what he's saying like these silly little fantasies that fantasies that people have told me that they have been a part of they told me they were on this strange looking rock that was spinning in the middle of nowhere and they could look up and see this big ball of fire how ridiculous
Having regular access to shows like this, explaining highly technical science papers in an accessible way, is one of my favorite aspects of the information age.
They did it... these mad mens actually created a warp bubble...
MAD MEN
"A cardboard box could be a warp drive" made me think of Spaceman Spiff's various vehicles. Maybe a transmogrifier next?
Time machine next :)
They were good weren’t they! The transmogrifier was my favorite!
What about a pickle?
5:44 I was not expecting an elite dangerous clip, nice to see.
I hate my physics addiction. I can never devote a full night to learning only things I can actually apply at work.
If you can't apply warp drive knowledge at work, maybe it's time to reconsider your career choices 😉
Become a professional physicist or an engineer ... problem solved.
I am addicted to all kinds of information I can't use and don't completely understand, so I feel your pain. Things that fascinate me enough to eat hours of my entertainment time budget are not things that I understand well enough to be paid for... damn it. I wonder if there's a job for enthusiastic amateurs.
i need sleep, but i crave physics
@@PaulPaulPaulson I tried that, but I didn't get a reply to my application to Starfleet Academy.
The fact that warp travel could be possible has made my day. I wish I could see it happen. Travelling amongst the stars is something people will take for granted, the way many take ✈️ travel for granted. It’s just not fair that we won’t get to live it out 😢
Agreed. Even though i personally dont think true superluminal travel will ever be a thing in the 1 billion years earth has left (though if we manage to save earth from the suns midlife crisis or already have colonized another planet in our solar system by then and get extra time, who knows) , i do think the concerted efforts that are going towards it will enable us to travel at speeds that seem impossible to us now and could help traveling through the solar system for easy exploring/terraforming and maybe do the whole generation ships thing over a reasonable timespan. Just hoping i get to see it
There is no exotic matter in our Universe. No particle, which have a negative mass. So the hypothesis of a warp-drive is not applicable.
If positive exist negative has to exist @@JubioHDX
0:28 that intro card though. Majestic!
New warp drive just dropped. Sick.
beyond being entirely hypothetical he says the new hypothesis still requires controlling energy equivalent to 10% the mass of the sun which is still well beyond any technology abilities anyone has now
@@tacokoneko yeah thx, I watched the episode tho
@@-mwolf I think he wrote that comment because your original comment didn't seem like you had actually watched the episode so he was just clarifying. Nothing has dropped :)
fixed a bug where warp drives required infinite energy
@@thedude4922 went from infinite energy requirement to 1/10 the solar mass energy... i say thats a big drop specially considering that what we are talking about here is traveling and warping space, this is an amazing work.
"Einstein and the universe appear to be trolling us. Alternately inspiring us and crushing our hopes for a star hopping future."
But that's how science works.
Such a Warp Drive has been built and tested many times already. The only problem is that each inventor testing it for the first time warped themselves into outer space and they died in the vacuum.
Source?
@@nerdykidnick joke
I can’t wait until we can occupy every point in space simultaneously at warp 10 so we can turn into giant salamanders.
"I GOT BETTER!"
Yeah that was a wired episode.
@@fnerXVI Well, its canon now, so what ya gonna do...
@@Slanghappy Pretend that episode happened on the altnerative voyager that disintegrated.
This is what we should be working on, and after a few years of watching Space Time, it doesn't seem as crazy anymore.
20 minutes of cutting edge science in an understandable format. Meanwhile, I'm stuck on how he pronounced "Miguel"
For anybody who is watching and doesn't know, THE U IS SILENT. MIG-EL.
Hahahahhaha mig el
As a “Miguel” myself, I couldn’t help but feel a sting when he pronounced it.
@@migoosan yeah it triggered me too
I'm a Miguel too. Ugh
"So, we need more energy than is currently present in the entire universe, and we need some exotic matter that doesn't exist... but _aside from that_ how could we make this work?"
Physics spitballing is just on another level.
Sure, the drive requires things that are currently considered not within our reach. Well theres other issues that perhaps can be solved.
Lets say we far into the future find a way to get our hands on exotic matter and unlock negative energy. Well now we have to figure out the physics for making our space bubble move at the desired speed...
Unless we've already solved for the issue of getting arround this absurdly large beautifully terrifying universe at crazy speeds!
You don't have to solve all of your problems in a particular order!
Are u dumb? Idk where you got that quote from but it's not from this video...
@@Nr1Sgt Not in those words, but that's basically what the Alcubierre drive is like.
I’m not really sure what you’re talking about. Obviously Joe Biden is working with the world to become solar. We’re not going to need anything but a horse and buggy when we’re done. Hahahahaha
We can still do it.
never stop this show, Matt thanks for sharing vast knowledge with us about the stars and science
hey that second paper is from the same university where i'm currently s̶u̶f̶f̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ studying physics :D
U spelled suffering wrong
Yeah? Well I invented the Super-Conducting Electromagnetic Levitation and Propulsion engine (SCELP). It does the same thing, as this one, but without all that Einsteinian nonsense about curving space.
In fact, the "Field" acts like a force-field, deflecting matter from it's path. It would have worked, too, if only I could obtain some super-conducting electromagnets -- or the hypothesized Absolutium.
And I was having significant problems controlling acceleration and deceleration. But I was sure I could overcome that with something better than a "space-bubble."
PS It still cannot go faster than light -- that's impossible.
@@humboldthammer "Absolutium" 😂😂
How do you do that strikethrough font?
@@WhiteCamry -This font?-
You use the minus sign ( - ) on either side of your text
For example, - hello there -
Now get rid of the spaces between the minus signs and the text and you get -hello there-
edit: Also, doing the same thing with underscores ( _ ) gives you _italics_
and doing it with stars ( * ) gives you *bold*
OK! OK! Who mixed the Spaceballs "pew" with the TNG theme?! .... You're a genius!!!
You gotta try a pangalacticgargleblaster....be warned you might not get back to the uni erse you you were in when you consumed the drink
What I love about warp drive is that it’s basically surfing on gravitational waves. 🏄♂️ 🌊
The science involved in this search is fascinating and I want more. Also, @8:35 I love how PBS made a cute animation of the Eagle 5 from Spaceballs with the I
I swear I thought you were going to say "spacetime" a dozen times before you actually said it
SAME
I wonder if he has ever NOT said that word in one of these videos.
As did I. Given that so many of us have tuned into the change in his voice's cadence in the lead-up to him saying it, I kind of have to wonder if he's doing it on purpose to troll us a little bit. I do sort of love that idea.
@@scaper8 That's pretty trolly, and also hilarious.
Did you take a shot every time he said "spacetime"?
That's two episodes in a row with an Elite Dangerous reference. I'm loving it! o7 Matt!
I immediately liked when I saw the hyperspace clip.
SO many references and in-jokes! This channel is awesome. Also... YAY, SCI FI!
Actually there’s been an update on that… after a lot of hard work and confirmation from many physicists there is now a way to conduct a spacecraft 100 meters across with the bare
minimum mass of Jupiter converted to energy, so
all we have do do now is harvest that much energy
from a Dyson sphere and conduct it through that
model and we’ll have a working warp drive that won’t collapse into a black hole, the only other
problems we will need to face are how to efficiently
collect this energy from the sun via dyson swarm,
since even collecting this much mass-energy will a megastructure encompassing a star of the sun’s classification will likely take a few hundred years to complete; and how to store this much energy in the
spacecraft
You gloss over the fact that their new hypothesis still requires something that doesn't exist to maintain the bubble, negative mass. Might as well require blue unicorns.
I want to live in a future where we have technology to freely travel through space with ease and have established planetary routes and an intergalactic economy. Think of the freedom and adventures. What an amazing existence that would be.
Government bureaucrats and politicians would find a way to F it up.
@@johngori9477 I reckon space is too big for bigwigs to ever have full control. They got enough problems managing medium sized countries
You are talking about real life Star Wars just without the force (usable), yet.
@@El_Fabricio Imagine if the force is actually just a kind of virus, or some kind of nano technology. A bacteria maybe? I believe that eventually in thousands of years possibly we will have a world similar to star wars.
I wouldn't say "with ease" I mean flying an FTL ship would still probably require a great deal of skill and training but I get what you mean.
When Star Trek first aired, people said the flip-top-phone was impossible. Yet here we are. Beam me up Scotty.
You're willing to die before you're reconstituted?
Whilst I see the appeal of this argument, it is a bit fallacious to argue for unproven technologies or sciences (such as ftl) with past discoveries, because for every example of a theory, tech or invention that was right despite popular perception to the contrary, there are dozens if not hundreds of falsified theories, techs and inventions. So whilst it is nice to stay optimistic, we can't justify the existence of future tech with the development of past tech, it represents a sort of selection bias, where we forget all the failed theories and technologies.
Uh-oh. When Holy Crusades were all the rage, alchemists were working tirelessly in the search of philosopher's stone. It's 2021 now and they didn't quite succeed.
well when you collect enough negative matter that dont exist and have a propulsion system to move you to the speed of light give me a call but i wont be holding my breathe
Einstein never demonstrated that miniature radio telephones were impossible.
The thing I love about quantum physics is that technically nothing is Impossible just sometimes difficult to observe or understand
This sci-fi nerd is encouraged that the Eagle 5 Winnebago from Spaceballs finally got its due in this episode, but I’m shaking my giant, Dark Helmet that the diagrams of “perpendicular energy” lines didn’t elicit a single “they’ve gone to plaid!” Moment.
May the Schwartz be with you!
"... but I’m shaking my giant, Dark Helmet ..." you could have kept THAT detail to yourself, dood.
I thought I was the only one who noticed the Eagle 5. My man.
NICE
Yogurt and his merchandising.
You talk specifically about the requirements to create a "useful sized" warp bubble - specifically with spacecraft in mind. What about tiny warp bubbles used to carry communication waves? One of the many hurdles to human expansion beyond earth is the light-speed communication barrier. Could a micro-warp bubble in theory be used to carry information at superluminal speed?
No
Yes.
I think you could but I don't think there's any way to get that signal out of the warp bubble
@@tomatofriend8840 isn't that what 5g LTE was supposed to accomplish?
@@maxb9480 no, 5G is just more information dense because the wavelength is shorter, still going lightspeed
There needs to be a law of the physics that whatever is declared to be physically impossible ends up as being possible with only a cup of tea and a rubber band.
That’s hilarious. I once had a dream that I invented time travel using a styrofoam cup, a rubber band, and a paper clip. I woke up with the most WTF feeling ever.🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dinoflagella4185 I've heard of a guy who invented time travel with a microwave, a flip phone, and a 42" CRT TV...
@@CedarAce1000 Oh no, I just wound you! Don't tell me you're broken! So not fair... I've taken extra good care of you and everything.
You mean like:
Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth, is to make the assumption, usually justified, that everything that is to be considered has indeed been considered. Let us suppose we have considered ten factors. Nine are clearly impossible. Is the tenth, however improbable, therefore true? What if there were an eleventh factor, and a twelfth, & a thirteenth...
Isaac Asimov
Murphy law. Anything that can happen will happen. It's already a thing.
8:00 if u listen to the music ,, I love how it not supper loud,,,
I hate it when u have a video where u cant hear the person talking , because the music is so loud....
thank u for making a quality video !
"A super soldier only exists while you are looking at him. If you look away I will pull out a gun and shoot him." --Quantum Zemo Effect
when did he say this ? , which episode ?
@@RAVIKULRAORA Zemo. Not Zeno.
@@martinphipps2 Which episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier did he say this?
@@sammiller6631 It is a paraphrase.
A reaction-less, sub-luminal drive that enables high fraction of _c_ travel would still be pretty neato.
I love how there is just an Elite Dangerous sidewinder jumping to a star system :)
What I want to know is how they got it to jump with all of its holo displays powered off!
@@Datan0de #nouiwiki
o7 CMDR
"the interior of the bubble is causally disconnected from the front wave" yeah that's a real showstopper, now how i drift between galaxies at 10^12 * speed of light and then step on the break when i see a Burger King?
In high school, I wrote a paper on Miguel Alcubierre's warp field solution and the potential for FTL travel. I got an F because my teacher said it wasn't "real science."
Edit: Some of you guys are super upset about this lmao
Your teacher is a smart guy!
@@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 she was the worst. I still think about it 8 years later.
Nonetheless she was right. Alcubierre constructed an insider joke using the mathematical equivalent of a lack of energy in an equation that is formally valid but semantically nonsense. That joke went over many people's head and now he doesn't dare to tell them that they're idiots falling for a construct that is formally valid but semantically invalid. Alcubierre is a funny guy who doesn't want to do harm, but nonetheless his drive is just a case of trolling the science community.
that happened...
@@hans-joachimbierwirth4727 Thing is that any ftl drive - like the alcubierre warp field - would allow information to travel faster than the speed of light from one solar system to another if generating and regenerating the warp bubble wouldn't compensate for that by taking a lot of time.
Every time the video slowly comes to its conclusion, I'm just waiting for Matt to say "spacetime."
9:25 "The details are *technical*, to put it mildly"
Quote of the year folks
Imagine a universe where things appear to be expanding, because from our observation point we are actually shrinking.
Bruhhhh........
…and if that is true, then we may truly be living inside a black hole. As we fall towards the singularity, the rest of the matter appears to be expanding….
Expanding means points in space getting farther apart from each other, not that things are "growing" relative to us.
If you're referring to the idea that certain regions of space might be contracting rather than others expanding: I'm pretty sure that's just an equivalent statement relativistically?
We would expand like baby to adult, either way , but wouldnt konw if the universe its actually shrinking or growing , or cycling. thats true turning light into hard copy and memories takes more space, and creates a lot of heat, that requires expanding space to disperse it.. also the chaos we see all around needs room, organizing stuff makes more chaos and heat as you do the effort. that, generally goes in the forward direction, that stuff happening, creates heat, disorder in sum. so we remember a time when there was less space. say you are an actor in a film.. step out of the movie, at the beginning actors dont know the end. (someone could tell you the end, but they are a god who and know you already saw the film, or acted in it) Play the film backwards, everyone dies at the end. the actors dont learn whats "next" they remember it, as they go, they forget what happened "before" .. you forget stuff. as the world shrinks.
Let's hope when we have warp drive technology, we have developed some sort of gellar field just in case
Nah, I mean what could go wrong?
@@shan4697 definitely not demons or something
PBS Space Time video first 30 seconds: Me: "Gonna be a cool video"
PBS Space Time video 1 minute in: Me: "MMM..Ahh yes of course" *cries in unintelligence*
Mood. My brain checked out once the Spock cosplay went away.
LoL. ... he's already talking to us in Lamens terms
@@03bugeye Exactly 😆
Einstein’s Relativity is like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown before he can kick it.
The more momentum Charlie's foot gains, the more uncertain the ball's relative position becomes.
Or Isayama dangling death infront of Reiner, only to take it away.
You know, in a negative metric with positive(relative) motion in negative time, Lucy is putting back the football helping Charlie when the wavefunction is (-1+1)[i², √i] = Tμυ.
Exactly the same as entanglement, describeable in Feynman diagrams, also a wormhole of information.
The entropy is overall both negative amd positive, making it locally near 0, in our positive time growing in complexity of qubits fractally-infinite filling curve-like, where the surface(coupled to E⁴ metric)which describes a volume of |S×h> knotting in on itself, essentially coupling two qubits of information in a simplified version of a Feynman diagram.
Back in time. (?) Quantum entanglement as disappearing worlds of Copenhagen/everett?(?)
Quantifying entropy in qubits this way I think hasn't been done yet, but surely Juan Maldacena and Leonard Susskind are working on it.
Warp drive I think, requires an event horizon of entropy/information.
I also think the metric is locally deSitter, but non-locally Anti-deSitter. Cut in half (?) Like a mobius strip, a Klein bottle or a thoroidal hyperbolic spacetime (???) Which would represent negative entropy..
The "spacetime ship" would be on the inside of an wormhole. If quantifiable we can control it intelligently.
Black hole mergers by ligo are great to study negative energy(positive spacetime inflation) by extreme gravitational waves, something recently talked on Lenny's Stanford complexity studies TH-cam channel.
I can record a meta trailer for interstellar 2 by contacting kip Thorne (LIGO director of theoretical physics or smth, writer of the science of Interstellar, the original script for interstellar, Nobel prize winner 2017, genius.)to talk about ligo pretending I found his clues by watching interstellar.
Lunatic, delusional, crazy and genius.
Recipe for science and science fiction.
Ultimately two branches of thinking that balance entropy in our time travelling brains.
I can even build a TARDIS for a scene and perfect the animation with openAI or something like CAD frame by frame them filling in the frames and adding pixels to make it 4k(120fps).
Ofc I need help tho, I accept each and every creative and geniality-filled crazy people.
*Scientific reasoning and logical thinking are required tho, to take down creativity and bind it to logic , guiding insanity to geniality
Exactly even though he’s a legend I always wonder if he had woke up on the other side of the bed on a Monday Instead of a Wednesday where the human race would be today
Imagine this creature, the scion of untold journeys, it ask the universe for an unbreakable law and the universe tells "This the law, nothing in space and time can move faster than light", on hearing this the creature falls silent for a moment and then it smiles shrewdly and says "this the law, but no law forbids space and time to move faster than light".
This creature is you.
This reminds me of a futurama episode
Fry asked Farnsworth how his ship flies at FTL
Prof answered, the ship isn't moving, its moving the space (or universe? Been a while) around it
It's crazy... in around 1998 when I was in high school, I doodled something similar to this ( 3:25 ) in a sketch for an idea I had. I kept a journal of "wow moments" that I would get. Ideas that came to me that I knew I didn't understand the significance of at the time, but they were so profound that I knew they would mean something later.
I drew it to represent my idea, "Squeezing and pulling the space around an object to adjust it's position in space, rather than exerting force to physically move the object."
Whenever I get insights like that I imagine how many other people have thought of that as well.
I really hope this idea really becomes practical. Might be far outside my lifetime but still neat to think about.
That's actually pretty cool! My dad used to have a sketchbook where he would doodle some engineering ideas.
My favorite sketch was the wind turbine with solar panels built all over it. And this was was from the 1970's.
I think warp drive is inevitable. Science fiction often becomes science fact.
It's not an insight when it's already been written about in thousands of stories
@@user-tx5sw4hq1h It is if you've never read said stories though
Sometimes basic ideas flourish into more complex, we have to start from somewhere, the dude is like writing something of interest for the first time. Getting the basics or basic concept is the first to obtain before going in deeper.
@@DasRaetsel that actually makes more sense since he's an engineer with working understanding of physics. That's actually respectable.
"the details are technical to put it mildly" i'm dont have words to describe this fear
Does this mean that if we made this drive that you could pull enemy ships around you’re ships with you?
Over the past 80 years the energy efficiency of warp drives has increased tetrationally and at this rate they should be possible in the next ten minutes
Edit: or so
"and brought down the energy requirements to less than insane levels, but typically remain somewhat insane" Sounds like there is a chance!
The reason the stars are so far apart is because the evolutionary creatures of the inhabited worlds of space and time, are of animal-origin. They are naturally bellicose and quarrelsome -- until they evolve. Before men will ever be allowed beyond their solar system, they must end war among themselves.
God vs God is next. Is I vs I Am. Then the Re-Set on 09/23/26 or sooner. That's when we'll unveil the NEON GAUD. hint: In GAUD we Trust -- men have proven that they will lie and cheat and steal if allowed to govern themselves.
And so ends our 250-year experiment in self-government.
There's an Epochal Eclipse a CROSS the US on April 8th 2024, when more shall be revealed to those with "eyes and ears." The rest will see only an eclipse. The next morning, April 9th, the Aliens ask -- audio only -- "Will Earthians ever agree on our creator?"
Exercise faith if you want to "SEE" anything.
It's like this guy saw the word insane and took it as his queue to let loose his own insanity.
Alcubierre's Warp Drive is like surfing a wave in the sea. The only difference is the warp drive controls the field. If there was a rudder to control the warp field's direction like a regular ship, that would allow better control of direction.
Problem: we still need to find a way to make an infinite “wave” so far the only way we know of to bend space is having something massive and dense like the sun to propel it, like how black holes are made, the denser it gets the more likely it is to rip straight through space time and create a black hole. That being said we simply need to create some sort of exotic matter to be just dense enough to warp space in front and behind the craft, one way to propel would be to get these dense matters to interact with each other, one on the “front one on the back” think of it like an interaction between two magnets.
Folding space is most likely the answer.
You can do this with mass, take an incredibly dense material give it massive amount of spin that it will have even more mass functionally so it would be more capable of warping space, warping is the first step to folding.
So basically a superluminal black hole?
Nothing will come out of it cuz too much mass creates a black hole
@@n9s3nse10 yes a certain amount of mass could create a black hole however it's not because of the mass it's because of the density created by the gravity created by the mass.
You can have a black hole created with no more matter than is in a grain of salt. All you have to do is make it extremely dense. Also black holes are possibly some of the best batteries in the universe. So theoretically if one could be created that is small enough to be maintained yet large enough to not disappear immediately while also keeping it in a vacuum where it would only receive the matter that was fed to it then that could be a great way to generate electricity and a massive amount of it. Granted we would need to figure out a way to keep it moving with the ship & then make sure that it stops with the ship.
@@dalton6173 you know that even a slightest mistake could ruin the whole solar system
The risk is too great
@@n9s3nse10 that's why you wait to do the warping of space until you reached far enough away from your home solar system to not theoretically risk the solar system at least until you have proven the technology viable and reliable. There's a thing called testing if you haven't heard of it.
If and when this is created, it would be the greatest invention since fire.
The invention of the internet and near instantaneous communication in general would arguably still be more important.
@@Thuazabi I would generalise that to computers. Without computers the internet could not exist, but computers also encompass many other great technologies.
As others have said. I think electricity and computers are in that mix.
Can't get there without those. Not to mention if/when we get quantum computers and/or fission reactors.
And then shortly thereafter we will discover that using it does horrible things to the fabric of spacetime.. cause that seems to be humanity's luck. 'Oh look, all the energy we could ever nee--wait it's running out?--oh it's so much worse than that.'
I imagine humanity's best case tech tree progression would be something like:
Fire -> Electricity -> Computers -> Artificial Superintelligence -------------∨
'-> Fusion Energy -> Efficient Antimatter Energy Store -> Warp drive
Picard > Kirk. Fight me.
He was ruined by the new show.
Dude! I hope you ever come back to publish videos. 🖖😊
@@Pyxis10 i guess he needed the work.
Why? I’ll fight by your side :P
@@Pyxis10 YOU HAVE INSULTED THE PICARD!!!!!! I WILL SLAY THEE!!!!
I like that we're at the "will it create a black hole" stage of things, but we've been here for a while. Let's find out already
REAL
@alejandro m Are you ok?
@alejandro m Hey king, I know a therapist if you need to talk to one. You don't have to be this way. I'm assuming you'd be happier if you weren't.
@alejandro m what does the BLM movement have to do with anything?
@alejandro m Blazing Saddles was a great movie but why are you trying to sidetrack exciting scientific news with silly political drivel? Be excited mate, the future is here!
Just stumbled across this video as the interest in warp technology never gets old. Being about a year after this video there's a bit of a breakthrough on warp tech, can't recall the scientists names but they actually and accidentally created a small warp bubble at NASA that lasted mere seconds. Another guy is working on impulse engines and that seems to be making strides too. Give it 50-100 years and Star Trek may become a reality.
I'm constructing in my garage a negative mass quasi-particle, so relax, warp drive will be available soon.
I've already built my warp drive craft. It's easy. The hard part is heisting some of the parts and materials from the LHC. I'm now working on trafficking Earth drugs to the race from Kepler 186f. They have observed the substances we take and are curious.
I can lend you a screwdriver.
Rick and Morty vibes
Just got to the part about the Eric Lentz paper that explores solitons. That’s amazing because the TNG episode “New Ground” includes a whole subplot with an experiment to use a soliton wave to send a ship to warp!
Erik Lentz mentioned he was a huge Star Trek fan when he was younger, and that ever since then, he wanted to try to make warp drives real. Of course back then, he knew he does not know enough about physics to actually advance the research. But now, during lockdown, he felt like he actually has enough knowledge to work on it, and the time, so he started to sit down and try to find a way to make warp drives possible without the major issue of negative energy being required. I found that whole story very nice, it shows how much one bright mind can advance science, and how much it depends on external factors (like being bored from a lockdown due to a pandemic) to spark such research!
@@Tystros That’s amazing - thank you for sharing!
@@justinoser9482 You're welcome! Did you see the talk Erik Lentz gave on a TH-cam channel a while ago yet? If not, I'd definitely recommend watching it, that's where he mentioned those things. Search for "Science Speaker Series: Dr. Erik Lentz" on TH-cam. He also has a blog where he posts about his continued warp drive research.
It was a failure as I recall..
@@Tystros I’ll check out that video - thanks again!
Omg odin's uncertainty principle made me LOL so freaking hard! Good job Matt
This has to happen because there are problems with a generation ship
-supplies don’t last forever
-energy doesn’t last forever
-it’s too slow and you don’t know if the world you’re going to is even habitable to life
It could if we include asteroid mining. It is too slow though, instead of traveling through space it would make more sense to create another planet.
@@XenogearsPS but the sun isn’t going to last forever
@@manuqtix8874 True according to google the sun will die in 10 billion years, so unless we figure it out within that time frame human civilization will cease to exist. Personally I believe we will just end up tranfering our consciousness into new bodies. Like robots or bio engineered forms that can continue existing and solve the space travel dilemma. Elon Musk neuralink is the first step.
You can travel at light speed and beyond. What You can't do is ACCELERATE to light speed and beyond.
but can you decelerate from beyond lightspeed?
@@DankDungeon When we get to light speed ill let you know
@@DankDungeon Eh, just drop an anchor, that'll do it.
@wisdom seeker but of course
@wisdom seeker If you're confident about what you're saying here, how about you write a paper on this and get it to be peer reviewed?
just imagine what we might discover, what beautiful places are awaiting us, when we finally have warp drive!! :D
You dont need it though with a bit of shift in perspective. Plus as it was said in the video, it's most likely gonna work, but be as good an engine as a carboard box XD
I've already built a warp drive craft. I can drive it and accelerate 300,000x the speed of light. I've been to planets and seen crazy things. And garbage disposal is easy: just throw it out there. This works better when you are within a few million miles of a neutron star.
@@scottvelez3154 XD
"no thing can travel faster than light, but space can do whatever it wants"
That's because space is not a thing. It's nothing.
Nothing can travel faster than light.
You make a good point,we actually don't know that much about the fabric of space and how fast it moves and stretches. We mainly know gravity is caused by this "fabric" being deformed by large mass.
@@adarshmohapatra5058 Space Expansion could be faster than light but a space perturbation cannot move faster than light as gravitational wave.
@@myhalong Take another look at Adarsh's brilliant post. He was playing with words.
@@adarshmohapatra5058 space isn't nothing. it's a three dimensional fabric that ripples and moves in gravity fields. this is what we're indirectly measuring with experiments like LIGO that sense gravitational waves: they're measuring ripples in space itself.
Dude I get chills when listening to people discovering something which sounds impossible also feels bad cuz most of the people rn spending time on tiktoks
0:28 yes that new intro card. I like it |-o-|.
Lol, sweet avatar
I know that's an emoji, but I see it as a TIE fighter.
@@mvmlego1212 I just assumed that's an intented joke (like that "#1 star wars fan" shirt with the enterprise on it ^^)
@@mvmlego1212 well, I have spellcheck replace “lol” with |-o-|.
@@renderproductions1032 -- Ah, so both of my interpretations were wrong. Derp.