Are Warp Drives Possible? (feat Dr. Miguel Alcubierre)

[@kylehill]

Thanks for watching, and a *THANK YOU to Dr. Alcubierre for his time and to his son Raul for setting this up!*

[@Grey_Shard]

"Dollar Store Thor" - i applaud you. Let the memes begin.

[@Durbuz94]

Dr. Alcubierre really was an awesome guest and it was great seeing you both interact! Hope to see some you vibing with more guest speakers in the future (where it makes sense).

[@En_theo]

Btw, if one can move by just folding space-time, does not that violate Newton's 3rd law ? It means we can move with a reaction-less propulsion.

[@En_theo]

@Ryan Dick Sure, but then why do most of physicists claim that concepts like the EMdrive are impossible ? If we admit that we can have a leverage on space to push ourselves from it, then the EMdrive (or any other reaction-less propulsion) should not come as a surprise for them.

[@En_theo]

@Ryan Dick I got you the first time, people answering to you on youtube are not all idiots, you know. But you didn't answer the question, repeating the same previous answer won't answer the second question.

[@nuklearwanze]

Met Alcubierre a couple of years ago at a conference. He is not only a renowned physicist, he is also a true space nerd!

[@i.m.i.7310]

Awesome share!!!! To infinity and beyond nerds ahoy

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

Need more re of those

[@AifDaimon]

that's awesome

[@outerrealm]

Renouned. Is he also a reverbed physicist, are his theories resonating through the echo chambers of physics? You spelled renowned wrong. In spite of youtube spellcheck.

[@nuklearwanze]

@@outerrealm thanks, fixed the spelling. As for the "reverbed": hundreds of papers building on his initial idea, I'd say that's some reverb right there.

[@lazilexi]

No way did you get Miguel Alcubierre on there! Wow, incredible

[@ryanharkness6303]

Miguel kid came on a stream and started to set it up.

[@kirabey8946]

Hi L

[@renard6012]

He's doing a lot of research at the LIGO(?) observatory. I wonder if at one point he will get tired of people asking him about his first paper, but I don't think so.

[@lazilexi]

@@kirabey8946 hi Light

[@simonpetrikov3992]

That's surprising because I thought he was dead

[@mastershooter64]

"(feat Dr. Miguel Alcubierre!)" That has got to be the biggest flex ever!

[@VAArtemchuk]

Yeah, it was like "Meh, don't watch anything too smart this evening.... WHO DID HE GET FOR THIS VIDEO?!?!"

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

Yes

[@medexamtoolscom]

I don't see why, he was already on john michael godier's event horizon channel.

[@oreos922]

No one knows who that is.

[@RainAngel111]

Famous theoretical physicists are still not really that famous. They can walk down the street and probably not be recognized. Maybe we should idolize them more than normal celebrities, but that's not reality now

[@AlkisGD]

14:22 - One of the things I love about science: "It also means that all my talks are wrong," he says with a smile on his face. Love it!

[@YouMakeMyMotorRun]

I'd wager he's happy to be wrong in the finer parts of the theory, but happy that his basic idea has been ironed out by other scientists. Man, most of us don't even achieve a mediocre idea in our lifetimes, and this guy has come up with one that has been part of scientific debate for almost 30 years now. I'd be pretty stoked, too xD

[@scumbagnamechooser]

I heard a video of Sabine Hosselfender that those paper have been proven to be wrong and you still require negative energy so Alcubierre was right.

[@isodoublet]

@@scumbagnamechooser I have no idea what she said specifically so I won't comment on that one way or the other, but it is true that negative energy is always required. This was proven by a number of people. The most recent exposition is Visser et al's paper "generic warp drives violate the null energy condition" which lays down the argument in generality and evinces the exact errors made by these other authors.

[@AlindBack]

So, about 30 years ago warp was impossible. Now it's just ridiculously difficult. I'd say that's an infinite amount of progress in just 30 years.

[@UNSCPILOT]

And apparently his work is inspiring people to pursue all manner of alternative FTL methods too, so we may yet see even more achievable methods in our lifetimes, I've heard rumors of one or two that would be within reach of modest Fusion reactors for power once that technology reaches maturity and any needed further research can test the theoretical exploits involved

[@nahometesfay1112]

We still don't know if it's physically possible. Now we know it doesn't need exotic matter, but we don't know any mechanism to create warp bubbles. On the bright side, energy isn't conserved in warped space-time so the same tech that creates warp bubbles could potentially also provide free energy to power it too (if that sounds absurd remember we're talking about FTL)

[@skelet8337]

Actually still impossible bcs we don't have enough energy in the whole solar system to full it

[@paulohagan3309]

@@skelet8337 Yes. However, when it was thought only negative energy could be used, the amount needed went from the mass of Jupiter to a small car to nearing a manageable amount in something like 25 years (conceptually of course). Let's hope the same thing happens on the positive energy front.

[@nuru666]

"There are no continents between Europe and India!" "Heavier than air flight is impossible!" "Rockets are a pie in the sky fantasy!" "Space Flight is impossible!" "FTL is nonsense!" I'm seeing a trend, here.

[@illusivec]

I don't know why but I always thought Alcubierre was an Einstein era physicist. Kinda shocking the guy's not only alive, he's not that old either.

[@renard6012]

Yes. They guy is amazing. His first published paper and he gets a concept named after him.

[@danilooliveira6580]

most of the theories we hear about are from the 60's or 70's and named after people that are already dead. its a weird feeling to think the idea is so young.

[@nebroskitheraut6705]

Imagine what a genius this guy must be....maybe he was in his 20s when he published it! Again, what a Genius!

[@akale2620]

Me too

[@TehZombish]

@@nebroskitheraut6705 Definitely! Although that fits with other physics geniuses. It appears all your good ideas are in your late 20's... and then not really a lot after there. Disclaimer - I am just using Einstein and Hawking for my statements. I am probably wrong, but it FEELS like that's the way it is.

[@anonimaus1618]

I love how Miguel gives such a genuine laugh when he mentions that he's been wrong in all of his talks about only being able to use negative energy. He's so happy to have been disproven because it just means another step forward in knowledge and science in a topic he loves. A true honest example of what a scientist really is😊

[@CCCW]

I also noticed and really liked that!

[@tonyh6194]

Being able to admit you're wrong makes you a real scientist, and a respectable person,I have extra respect for people like that

[@spvillano]

Well, negative energy and hence, negative mass then to be two specifications for the theoretical tachyon. I tend to shy away from anything that's massively negatively hot, as it's still way below absolute zero.

[@tonyh6194]

@@spvillano eh, maybe. But I saw a thing where scientists used lasers to manipulate quantum spin of cesium atoms near absolute zero to make them act as if they had negative mass

[@isodoublet]

He wasn't disproven though, and he never will be. It's a theorem that all warp drive spacetimes (and also all spacetimes permitting FTL travel) require negative energy (or, to be more precise, violations of the so-called null energy condition, which morally is the same thing). The papers claiming otherwise simply didn't look hard enough for a violation.

[@SportingRedwood]

Kyle: I’m not a supervillain! Also Kyle: We need to harness the power of dark energy!

[@God-yb2cg]

How else are you supposed to run the anti-matter reactor?

[@subowicz8255]

How else are you supposed to run anti mass spectrometer?

[@NEELZE99]

Funny😒

[@munirahmadahmadi2087]

​​@@NEELZE99Thank you for your opinion 😒

[@dum_tard5528]

how does that make him evil?

[@dallatorretdu]

We need to make sure that future humanity will say “ENGAGE” when using the warp bubble

[@EBFilmsMan]

Make it so.

[@myflippinggoodness8821]

TEA. EARL GREY. HOT

[@gogokowai]

Sadly there's no predicting the state of pop-culture in the far future, or even if we'll be speaking a recognizable language. It would be like watching chariot races 2000 years ago and hoping that if there ever was a horseless carriage, people would still say some phrase in Latin their favorite gladiator said that roughly translates to "giddy up".

[@Milk_Bag67]

@@gogokowai yeah but atleast it isn't unknown gladiator saying a line, it's recorded hundreds of movies saying a line

[@somebody7205]

Just make sure that who ever writes the protocols for warp drive operation or ship pilot manual is a big nerd and we'll have it

[@emiliollvtz]

Miguel actually studied at my high school and is a family friend. Love to see him here! He's so so great, and a jewel of mexican physics

[@bigmaxporter]

that's sick!

[@UNSCPILOT]

He really has caught the whole world's attention and imagination, even as a Canadian I'm proud of what he's achieved, every new variation and improvement I see of his theory gets more exciting!

[@crazysilly2914]

I thought he was Spanish…?

[@Ogrillian]

@@crazysilly2914 He's Mexican

[@okitasan]

I know what you meant but “Mexican physics” makes it sound like the laws of physics works differently in Mexico 😂

[@CuriousLumenwood]

“How long could it really take 4.3 light years for a ship like this y’know?” *69’420 years later* “Nice”

[@matty42087]

Nice

[@KiboraVT]

Nice

[@aeaeeaoiauea]

Nice

[@runningruski2232]

Nice

[@mimameta]

Nice

[@louisvisagie283]

Great to see a famous physicist in a science education interview. If you can get other scientists to interview that would be awesome.

[@zacharymesecke9638]

Yeah, and that Dr ALcubierre was pretty cool too!

[@MrKeserian]

@Nybbl er also, giving a scientist or engineer a chance to talk about their pet project/theory is like handing a kid a piece of chocolate. I work as a car salesperson near NASA at Langley AFB, and I'm the "go to" guy whenever we have an engineer looking at a car. I have no doubt that we'll eventually get there. If it's physically possible, we'll figure it out.

[@Redditaurus]

@MrKeserian "I have no doubt we'll eventually get there" go where?

[@paulohagan3309]

@@Redditaurus I'm assuming you aren't a native English speaker. In English 'get to' can mean 'reach' (an achievement) 'arrive at' (a goal) or simply 'achieve'.

[@mikotagayuna8494]

So we need large masses to make warp drives work? Here in my couch, I'm contributing to this worthy scientific endeavor one Dorito at a time.

[@franciscosoares2440]

We'll get there, one discord mod at a time

[@nil981]

You would need negative mass/energy. Which is far more abundant but more difficult to harness, especially on discord.

[@Hanmacx]

I like in Futurama: "The Engine doesn't move the Ship, But moves the Space around it"

[@Dimondminer11]

Yeah was gonna say that!

[@killman369547]

That show was ahead of it's time.

[@Waterdust2000]

😮 just like in the show.. hmm 🧐

[@memegoddave]

I've been positively glued to my pc-screen while listening to Dr. Alcubierre. How enthusiasticly he talks about this fantastical idea that is so far away in the future that even our grandchildren possibly will never witness this technology is simply intoxicating. Godspeed doctor, you, Kyle and your talk absolutely made my day.

[@simonphoenix3789]

grandchildren? this is something I don't think our descendants 1000 generations later will manage to accomplish, let alone two or three generations from now. I think we are all used to living in this era of incredible technological progress that we assume this will always be the norm. But it won't. Just like with the massive growth of human technology that accompanied the advent of agriculture, eventually we will reach a point where things slow down to a crawl again despite the internet, despite computers and despite the connected brainpower of an entire planet. Hopefully we will manage to do a lot before that wall hits us, but I don't see something as fantastical as a warp drive on this side of that wall.

[@makisekurisu4674]

Unless we get help from aliens, its not gonna be possible within probably even a thousand years unfortunately😥😥 I have also realized that a nice and sleek looking spaceship that can land any survivable rocky planet is impossible. They will always have giant ugly radiators sticking out, making it look like a jumbled mess, plus they will need a lander and a launch vehicle is as well. However, it might be possible to launch them from mars.

[@jarman_2000]

Well said MemegodDave

[@makisekurisu4674]

@@williambarbre4404 That's not a problem here.Look at Nuclear power, it should've been everywhere by now.We should already been using LIFTR reactors by now yet why are we using such primitive reactors? Its all because of lack of any political interests.We need something like the cold war to incentivise such innovations. Secondly, the energy required currently is impossible to get even with a dison sphere so we don't even know how much we could drop from the Jupiter mass-energy estimate. But, regardless of that we would need at least a partial dison sphere to do anything like practically proving the concept. And I don't see it happening within 1000 years.

[@Shikuro314]

@@makisekurisu4674 First of all, hi there Kurisutina! :P And yeah, I can agree that these are huge problems and the incentive isn't really there to put all our efforts into it, in contrast to electronics for example over the last couple decades. But just to keep it short (because I can write novels about stuff like that xd) my big hope in that regard would actually be the exotic matter / exotic energy. As long as we didn't solve other huges mysteries like dark energy/matter and as long as we don't have the all-mighty-all-describing "theory of everything" we still have space to work with and possible aces up our sleeve.

[@danilooliveira6580]

Dr. Alcubierre is actually a lot younger than I thought. I've been hearing about the Alcubierre drive since I was a kid, so it never downs on me that it was proposed just 27 years ago, most of the theories we hear about are from the 60's or 70's and named after people that are already dead. its a weird feeling to think the idea is so young.

[@danilooliveira6580]

@chonky chink yeah, the idea of Warp Drive is from the 60's from Star Trek, and I think its based on an older novel. so this is usually what comes to mind when I think about the Alcubierre drive. but the idea of the warp bubble is relatively new. he basically gave a "face" to all those sci fi ideas people had in the past. that is probably why its so weird for me to think how new it is.

[@Bliss467]

I love how despite it being his claim to fame, he's so humble and realistic about it. He points out it's not a matter of advancing technology, but a limit of the laws of the universe

[@goodcorwin627]

He is also seemed genuinely happy that he was actually wrong and someone else proved him wrong. Science at its best, just amazing.

[@FuriousImp]

@@goodcorwin627 Exactly! Self-correcting, seems completely opposite of religious fervent dogmatic belief.

[@sacasticdata1840]

Requiring something that doesn't exist for your theory to work doesn't make it realistic at all. That's the opposite of realistic. You might as well say you found a way for warp drive to work but all you need is a planet's worth of invisible purple unicorn farts.

[@goodcorwin627]

@@sacasticdata1840 1) Casey Stratton was not claiming the theory was realistic, but that Alcubierre was humble and realistic about his theory. 2) AFAIK there isn't actually anything prohibiting negative energy from existing per se (I could be wrong, feel free to correct me anyone), it simply has not been observed, we have no idea how to create it and have no real reason to think it exists, which doesn't mean it can't however. Kinda like white holes.

[@1988ryan1]

@@goodcorwin627 Energy conservation law basically guarantees negative energy exists and takes up 50% of the universe because for one object to ever have mass one has to loose mass so the universe must be equal parts mass/energy to negative mass/energy to remain balanced, and we know negative mass particles appear around us all the time it just disappears really quickly due to quantum tunneling. We have already observed 'negative mass', just not negative gravitational mass which is what would give negative energy. So negative pressure density is about as close to negative energy as we can get right now.

[@martinlastname8548]

I always watch these videos expecting a different answer. It’s like when I go to the fridge knowing what’s inside and stare with a blank face hoping for a different result.

[@Smoking_cat11]

Lol I'm the same

[@manfromaland]

If only I could live long enough to explore the universe...

[@Smoking_cat11]

@@manfromaland let's hope reincarnation is real

[@enricofermi3471]

Insert Far Cry 3 madness quote here.

[@jamesmnguyen]

I mean there are basically three solutions to space travel: FTL drives, "Immortality", or Generation Ships. All of which are hard for their own reasons. FTL requires a lot of new science or technology. Immortality requires biological/medical science, or uploading consciousness to computers. And Generations Ships mean you won't live to see the destination, but your descendents will.

[@AllieGee95]

My jaw literally dropped TO THE FLOOR when I read that you would be talking “live” with Professor Alcubierre... AND OMG was this amazing. I so so so SO wish to see warp drive become a reality within our lifetimes. The first person in command of such a spacecraft better say “Hit It!”, “Punch it!” Or “Engage!” 😁

[@AllieGee95]

Whoops it seems it’s Doctor, not professor. My bad. 🤷🏻

[@O4C209]

So Cubert from Futurama was right Cubert: I understand how the engines work now. 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. Bender: That's a complete load! Cubert: Nothing's a complete load! Not if you can imagine it. That's what being a scientist is all about.

[@meowistforlife]

That always fascinated me as an idea, to think that’s how it will actually work makes me giddy

[@leeman27534]

then this might come as a surprise to you, but some of the writers on futurama were legit science bois. the series was written with science literacy in mind, very much. there's plenty of artistic license, plenty of 'themed' stuff rather than being legit science, but it was not written by people who just threw out the book in favor of writing a good story. in fact, an actual mathematical formula was printed up about the body switching episode. there's also a ton of math and science references in there

[@innerg_92]

@@leeman27534 and that's the whole reason I loved Futurama, plus it was hilarious too!

[@ricktifierful]

@@leeman27534 Yep, there is something like 5-6 Phd holders writing for futurama (please correct me if i am woefully underrepresenting) it is like the expanse of adult animation and i do recommend people at least watch the initial run.

[@headgames3115]

@@leeman27534 I was going to say, some episodes are lifted right out of sci-fi classics and thought experiments, such as Gray Goo being the tiny Benders episode.

[@nicolaiveliki1409]

Arthur C Clarke: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong". Cool video and gracias Miguel Alcubierre!

[@acharronoir]

A friend and I were always weary of asking him about the A drive during lectures so as not to waste his time as we always thought he might be tired of being asked about the same thing over and over for 30 years. This is one of the most friendly people on earth and whether or not he’d feel annoyed it wouldn’t have shown. That much of a science educator soul is what Miguel is.

[@cnaisbitt5013]

Kyle wearing ALL black even down to the shoes, makes me feel like he's wearing the void instead of being inside of it. How times have changed.

[@valiroime]

More a a stage hand thing than a social statement I would think.

[@OuranHighCosplay]

One of my grad friends while I was in undergrad was working on specific circumstances surrounding Alcubierre Space Bubbles. He was looking at how this type of spatial manipulation creates a sort of sink for light to be trapped in until the bubble is broken at which point the light is released. The power of this light is so immense that it would obliterate nearly anything in its path.

[@Inglonias]

Any sort of FTL makes the Fermi paradox even more terrifying to contemplate, because suddenly we need to worry about the ENTIRE INFINITE UNIVERSE not having intelligent life besides us.

[@UNSCPILOT]

It's also possible that we're just further ahead of everyone else than expected, with how long it took to get multicellular life on earth, we might have gotten lucky, everyone else might just be catching up or nowhere close yet

[@69Kazeshini]

Also even if we're the only ones so far, we can make it our duty to seed life across the universe, genetically engineer organisms and even other humans to live on alien worlds after 1000s of years you'll have actual aliens via human subspecies and cultures.

Maybe we are in a "grey" area of the Universe, so boring that no one comes near us.

[@sacasticdata1840]

@@UNSCPILOT If there is one thing about the universe it's that if it happens in one place it's happened in another. I highly doubt humans are the most intelligent, technologically advanced species in the universe. Quite possible? More like barely possible.

[@UNSCPILOT]

@@sacasticdata1840 That's the thing, it should be unlikely for us to be alone, yet we haven't seen any obvious signs of other major civilizations yet let alone been contacted, so there is a non zero chance we might be the highest level of technology in our given region of the milky way, and even if there are plenty of others the universe is so mind breaking huge we might not run into them until well after we've left our own star, if we find them at all, we can't begin to be sure until we have a intelligent species sample size greater than one, as ridiculous as some Fermi paradox solutions can sound until we have firm evidence either way a lot of weird possibilities could be true

[@danieljensen2626]

Dr. Alcubierre seems super friendly and enthusiastic, what a great guest to have on. I bet he's great to have as a professor.

[@vonbrownYT]

Hearing Dr. Alcubierre so passionate about his work was awesome to witness. Great interview Kyle!

[@kazma8149]

Uno de los mejores científicos que tenemos en México, que bien que lo pudiste entrevistar. This episode was awesome

[@cineblazer]

The fact that you actually got the real Alcubierre to give an interview about the Alcubierre drive is the kind of high-effort content that really sets your channel apart. I learned a lot!

[@philwasson]

I've been hearing about the Alcubierre Drive for so long that, I have to confess, I actually got goosebumps when he came on screen. I guess he's kind of a rock star and I am such a nerd.

[@jeffk1482]

He is. Welcome!

[@corvusdove874]

I can't help but wonder how long Kyle had to cool his jets in front of a mirror before the interview to keep from fanboying hardcore at Alcubierre (like, you know, most of us totally would).

[@item459]

Yo nice profile pic , remember there is always a spot for us in the eternal garden of the Many...

[@corvusdove874]

@@item459 Glory to the Many! I am a voice in their Choir!

[@AifDaimon]

@digifalc0087 Kyle was probably screaming on the inside.. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@urrrr]

It's incredible that you actually got the man who popularized the whole thing in an interview. Be as impossible as it may be, I love thinking of a future where a Proxima centauri trip is nothing but a trivial matter.

[@kamlong7358]

In my writings, the work around to superluminal question is "We salvaged it off of an alien wreck and reverse engineered it, we don't know how it works, only that it does"

[@rhov-anion]

That is likely how we'll one day solve this. Scientific plagiarism.

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

My favorite solution.

[@johnilarde8440]

@@rhov-anion Scientists: YES! We now have a successful warp drive! Oh, and there goes the aliens to greet us.. Alien: Greetings humans, now you people achieve Warp drives. We can finally acknowledge your existence in the universe... and sue one of your scientist for copying one of my people’s invention. Scientists: Wha- wait, you’re suing me? Why? Alien: Because you could’ve come out with something original rather than copying us?

[@gargoyles9999]

@@johnilarde8440 sigh *Loads Bolter* For the Emperor

[@Tantalus010]

That's the plot to Mass Effect.

[@PhotonPnk]

I hate that I won't live long enough to see advancements like this become a reality

[@cropunisher5879]

No one of us will

[@dr.insanity9087]

Technically we might but the probability that we will is infinitesimally small, though still technically possible, but I see what you mean.

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

Just hold onto the hope that the chance of developing technology to extend out lifetimes to such a point, is infinitely closer than the development of it. Live to see that, and all else follows.

[@heatherperleberg7816]

I mean, given how far we've come in just a few hundred years of semi-scientific liberty, I'd say anything's possible at this point in time.

[@GR-ym8po]

I mean we went from horse and buggy to rocket ships within 1 lifetime....it's possible

[@Nickle_King]

Kyle's a Lvl 20 Necromancer! He knows Clone. He has his own dungeon COMPLETE with minions. Plans with an ethereal, disembodied voice. Necromancer!

[@maxxcreese9911]

I say warlock

[@silic8873]

oh

[@iPhoneeditor]

15th level or higher wizard of any variety or an 18th level lore Bard. I think the later is more on point because he's both an educator and an entertainer who is capable of inspiring others :)

[@TheHornedKing]

Necromancy deals with negative energy, and negative energy could be used for warp drive. Kyle is planning something...

[@evannibbe9375]

He only needs 15 levels to get access to Clone.

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

Humans: *living in regular spacetime* Universe: You cannot go faster than the speed of light Humans: *invents warp drive* Universe: Excuse me, wtf

[@B1gLupu]

More like "Ok universe, just listen, how about YOU move then" 😁

[@jameshumphries5931]

Well we do see the warping of spacetime already,all things with mass warp space time, the denser the mass the greater the warping of space time we have observed this in the universe, typically by a super dense mass like a black hole, so it does occur in the universe, the challenge is creating it on a localized scale and controlling it!

[@Soken50]

@@jameshumphries5931 Yup, for now all we can do is make time pass more slowly locally by hoarding a bunch of mass in one spot

[@nehpets216]

@@Soken50 So, your suggestion is a held micro black hole in front of the ship to accelerate the ship towards the hole while some super-strong material holds the black hole at a certain distance in front of the ship?

[@Soken50]

@@nehpets216 I wish it were that simple, sadly the more mass you accumulate the harder it is to de/accelerate it or escape its gravity

[@Firespark81]

If we did everything we could to accelerate the singularity wouldn't that also increase our chances of solving problems like this much faster?

[@physics_hacker]

Working toward the Basilisk I see.

[@innerg_92]

surprised to see you here! right on.

[@ungodlytemptations]

@@physics_hacker By saying that you're now safe. Good job!

[@synthemagician4686]

I would assume so. I'd think we're much closer to the singularity than a warp drive, and the singularity would absolutely figure out how to make a warp drive faster than us. That depends on what the singularity AI decides to do though. Theoretically anything can happen with the singularity, but if it goes well then solving problems like these will happen way faster.

[@razeezar]

It could be a quicker way of learning (by ultra-intelligent AI informing us) that FTL travel is not feasibly possible by any known means.

[@mezoss6424]

The quality of Kyle's video are just going up and up. Thank you so much for what do. You make science fun and accessable. Salutations de Montréal!

[@liggel04]

Very cool you were able to get him on the show, well done and kudos to him for doing it!

[@bove6767]

If enough of us support the facility Kyle will inevitably have to finish his phrase of "I dont even know who I'm going to pass the ti-." And that, does put a smile on my face....

[@tunatutuncu2221]

7:18 "Dollar store Thor" LMAOOOO

[@mytoe420]

cmon now hes the dollar general

[@yungbloodas3789]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Soken50]

Dollar Thor for short

[@bf3and4highlights83]

"Oh for heavens sake mankind, it's only 4 light years away. I can't help it if you don't take an interest in your local affairs....."

[@VinceValentine]

Oh freddled Gruntbuggly.

[@fogdelm]

energize constructor beams...

[@Iiphaedos]

Best trilogy ever

[@Markus_Andrew]

Oh no, I forgot where my towel is!

[@pyronix]

Miguel Alcubierre is such a lovely guy. Thanks for featuring him, Kyle. This was fantastic

[@JAGtheTrekkieGEMINI1701]

Damn as a Star Trek Nerd/Veteran, this was highly satisfying... Thanks! 🤘

[@syko2164]

And to think, this great interview was because his son sent a superchat.

[@H33t3Speaks]

The internet is AMAZING.

[@Gooberpatrol66]

Is there footage of him getting that superchat?

[@elansleazebaganno]

Wait, Alcubierre's son or Kyle's?

[@vonwux]

I've seen a couple of interviews with Dr Alcubierre now - he seems like a nice human and it's awesome that he's happy to take the time to talk with science communicators for their shows.

[@ardnys35]

"it also means that all my thoughts are wrong because whenever i talk about it i say 'you need negative energy' now it turns out you don't." it's so funny i really liked this man

[@RFDN0]

That is the common thing that happens to people who pioneer an idea. They find one way to do it and miss something. Others take that knowledge and look from other angles to see if another solution can work. Eventually some one finds another solution and then the cycle continues.

[@joda7697]

I am most worried about what happens while creating and while collapsing the warp bubble. Traveling in it is fine and all, but what kind of damage is creating what equates to a spacetime-cutout and sewing it back on elsewhere going to cause to the rest of spacetime locally?

@@joda7697 i think the idea is to compress space-time in front of the bubble and expanding it behind the bubble. So no long reaching problem I guess. The thing that scares me a little is what happens when the bubble stops and all the "bugs in the windscreen" follow their route? What speed would they have at that point?

[@joda7697]

@ But you basically take a region of spacetime, section it of to turn it into a bubble, and then move that bubble through the rest of spacetime. But... What happens to the part of outside spacetime where the bubble once was? And when the bubble reaches the destination, what happens to the local spacetime at the destination in order to fit the bubble into it. I'd imagine both parts get deformed considerably, and what kind of effects would that cause?

[@hudsonj.2786]

@@joda7697 Yea,I remember that episode of Star Trek NG too.

[@shugucchi]

I actually wrote one of my university assignments on the Alcubierre Drive, and how although negative energy may not exist, dark energy does seems to have anti-gravity effects and how it could be used as the energy source instead of positive energy if harnessed. I didn't go through any maths it was just a hypothesis at the time. Nice to know I wasn't the only one thinking about it. I orginally got the idea because of the way mass effect the bioware game uses dark energy for ftl travel.

[@BlackHoleForge]

You actually got the scientist who help create the idea of Alcubierre Warp Drive. Mad Props.

[@IceMetalPunk]

This was amazing! Super cool that you were able to get Dr. Alcubierre on as a guest, and possibly even cooler that his son is a fan of your channel! Also, beyond amazing that we've solved the negative-energy problem. Obviously, as mentioned many times here, there are still tons of problems to solve before an Alcubierre drive ever has any hope of being invented, and it likely won't be at any point in my lifetime or even the lifetimes of my nieces and nephew, but one step at a time! Being one step closer to it is still a massive achievement, even if there's a whole marathon ahead of us.

[@ChancellorScar]

"The McConaughey Situation" It's official, that's what it called now.

[@Fakespy]

“There’s no negative energy.” Have you met my boss?

[@johnilarde8440]

Man, feel sorryfor you..

[@valeon7303]

As a fan of theoretical physics, I almost started crying when I saw this episode

[@Jackthetech]

Someone told me to look you up when I was trying to do research for a sci-fi universe I've made, because I wanted to use logical possible theories in it. Some of your videos here and on the because science *hears a feline hiss* have helped me understand some of the various things that have made me contemplate drinking or made me stare off into nothing as I try to work it out in my head. People like you help people like me not simply just slam out heads into our desks trying to understand something, granted I've ended up creating a fictional compound for something because nothing discovered yet had the properties I needed. Thanks for helping explain stuff and help people like me work things out in at least a logical and scientifically based way.

[@Obez45]

If you want negative energy all you have to do is just get a bunch of Karens together

[@spvillano]

Th problem is that when enough are gathered into one space, the mass-energy equivalence of their intellect causes an implosion where a Planck mass travels a Planck length in under one unit of Planck time, resulting in a singularity.

[@dsdy1205]

@@spvillano That's a very weird way of saying 22 micrograms travelling at the speed of light

[@iocu]

so we gain the means, but at what cost Obez? at what cost.

[@balazsadorjani1263]

True. Pack a bunch of MegaKarens together, and I guarantee that all baryonic matter will want to travel away from that spot faster than the speed of light.

[@kula_lala739]

No wonder Karen's always want the manager, they just want to be managed into a positive form.

[@nebroskitheraut6705]

7:27 the legend himself! Damn, what an honor!

[@Spartan2818]

I love how in futurama the professor explains that his ship doesn't move, it moves the universe around it and everyone it like that's impossible. Then comes along mr alcubierre and makes science fiction a science possiblity

[@-Offstar]

Interesting fact that was based on the Alcubierre theory. A lot of stuff in Futurama is based on actual science, of course they take a lot of artistic creativity with things but there is a lot of actual scientific basis on things. Such as the Professor's ship which was based on the Alcubierre theory of instead moving space time and not the ship.

[@Spartan2818]

@@-Offstar my favorite one is they actually created a math equation to explain the mind swapping episode lol

[@lizardlegend42]

@@Spartan2818 yeah they made a proper paper and everything to go along with it lol, so cool

[@DiomedesStrosMkai]

Dr. Alcubierre wrote his paper in 1994, 5 years before the first episode of Futurama

[@-Offstar]

@@DiomedesStrosMkai Yeah... and? no one said Futurama came before his theory.

[@justicebaker5819]

Two questions. 1: could you theoretically make a sun, find some way to keep it at a certain mass and use that to power it 2: could you use the compression of space to basically teleport, by that I mean compress space between to places to like a single step? If you could would there be differences in using it on the same planet versus from one planet to another?

[@lotus7781]

well a fusion reactor is like a miniature sun, as its the exact same process the sun uses to power self

[@Tystros]

@Kyle Hill you did mix up the two illustrations from the two different papers. At 12:41, when Alcubierre was talking about the first paper, you showed the illustration from the second paper, and at 13:13, when Alcubierre was talking about the second paper, you showed the illustration from the first paper. So the illustrations show the opposite of what Alcubierre is explaining in those cases.

[@beowolf83]

I envy you so much right now, you got to talk to "the dude", "The Master of all Nerds", Miguel Alcubierre.

[@UNSCPILOT]

The man who made an Actual warp theory while watching Star Trek, the man is truly a King of Nerds in the best possible way

[@ChrisCro]

We need more "dollar store Thor" talking to scientific minds because that was genuinely interesting to watch

[@NekoFallen]

Hey show, love the Kyle! Two of the other sci-fi ideas for interstellar travel that I like apart from Warp Drive/Hyperspeed are that of: A Graviton Engine that would fold space-time to allow near-instant travel between two locations like in the Battletech universe or Event Horizion, perhaps using two or more "Gates" that link up; or Subspace travel through a gateway like in Babylon 5.

[@ChengHooSew]

The first time I was introduced to the concept of time dilation is when I was around 12 years old when I watched Gunbuster. I spend several nights being haunted by the feeling of sad and loneliness when I think about Noriko coming back to his friends that have been long dead for more then 10000 years. Even the time of 10000 years blown my mind back then.

[@jasonbieber6431]

Welcome Home!

[@Sundablakr]

Miguel seems like a really genuinely fun guy to talk to about scientific concepts. All smiles and enthusiasm.

[@mark_williamh1340]

We could also opt for the 40k method... Literally tear a hole in reality and travel through hell with no concept of time or location....

[@maxxcreese9911]

Without a gellar field lol? Have you seen event horizion or how to travel through the warp without a geller field.

[@shuginubi]

@@maxxcreese9911 daemons are not that strong yet, my friend

[@marrqi7wini54]

No one likes using the warp so let's not use it.

[@deathhog]

"A'IGHT BOYZ! OIZ WROIGHT BORED! TURN DA GELLEY FIELD OFF FER A BIT. WE'Z GUNNA KRUMP SOME GITZ!" -Captain P. Morris, high as a kite on PCP, bath salts, and DMT.

[@Epicmonk117]

@@deathhog Are you sure that's Captain Morris himself and not the ork he keeps as a pet?

[@patricksarama4963]

Imagine how trippy it would be to see a warp drive functioning in real life

[@astrobullivant5908]

How could we even actually see it if it existed? If and when the Alcubierre Warp Drive exists, I think ships using it would "disappear" from sight and then reappear out of nowhere.

[@patricksarama4963]

@@astrobullivant5908 exactly

[@spvillano]

@@astrobullivant5908 nearly correct, observed, it'd appear to be an impossibly fast moving inversion of what gravitational lensing looks like.

[@dsdy1205]

@@astrobullivant5908 Look up gifs of tachyons passing an observer. You'd basically be seeing some sort of FTL after-image of the bubble passing by.

[@astrobullivant5908]

@@dsdy1205 I think that would be very different, Dean, because Tachyons would travel locally at faster-than-light speed without the need for curved spacetime.

[@battlefieldcustoms873]

I saw that featuring and I could have squeaked with excitement lmao. This was a great video. Really great to see someone like that just talking and being a person. Makes you feel like putting in the work is what it takes to be that cutting edge.

[@r13hd22]

Physicist Patrick Johnson explained that Star Wars mode of travel is more realistic and achievable. Both Star Wars and Star Trek has "Light Speed" capable travel. But in Star Wars once light speed is achieved you can enter "Hyperspace" which is and I quote "a set of extra dimensions beyond the three that we experience daily. These extra dimensions are able to connect distant points in real space." "The Physics of Star Wars" is a great read and shows just how more realistic Star Wars is than Star Trek. From space travel to weapons...most of them are NOT LASERS...light sabers are heated plasma, just like the blasters are. A hand-held "phaser" is not going to disintegrate someone, it could never generate the kind of power and heat required.

[@hortus4701]

Watching this while playing elite dangerous, braking the laws of physics while watching someone explain how you can't do that.

[@UNSCPILOT]

*can't currently, not to say that we can't yet find a way, interestingly his theory has inspired many others to find ways to break the speed of light or at least get close enough to get most of the benefits

[@magicweaponr072]

We just gotta find some Guardians or Thargoids and steal their tech, smh

[@housetheunstoppablessed4846]

Can't currently, but his idea has inspired many others and even a paper was published just last year that fixed the Negative Energy issue.

[@kingpachacuti9536]

I suck at physics and mathematical stuff, but stuff like this almost makes me want to study stuff like this. It's just so cool.

[@LordXyntharn]

I be early Kyle! When that donation announced this potential interview, I was worried it was a troll to be honest. Amazing opportunities can come from anywhere now.

[@Kappamsu]

Same, but i'm really happy it was true

[@ssjaang9284]

When you were on because science you made a bunch of "Why you dont want (superpower)" episodes. Could you make a "Why you want (superpower)" series. Essentially its about powers that are really helpful with no bad drawbacks, just really hard to achieve.

[@joshigun]

Awesome. Thank you Alcubierre!

[@HeartOfStone.]

I remember when you first found out about being able to get in contact with Miguel Alcubierre in your live stream and I'm glad it came to fruit!

[@Nater2004]

Meanwhile in 40k " WE GO THROUGH SUPER HELL GUIDED BY THE EMPOROR AND HIS LIGHT!"

[@Marth667]

Science fantasy always does it better

[@peterheinzo515]

the emperor protects.

[@spvillano]

Bleh, Hari Seldon has a plan. OK, will have a plan...

[@redleg1376]

Doom, Event Horizon, and Dune are all in the 40k universe.

[@Nater2004]

@@redleg1376 maybe.

[@europademon]

Saw the notification and warped here right away. 🚀

[@jonathanamoros6148]

@Kyle Hill Just a short 6 months-ish ago an exciting announcement was made that a team of scientists accidentally made a "warp bubble" around some particle. You should take a look at it and do an episode around it! Huge fan of yours, thank you so much for all the hard work you put into these awesome videos! ~Jonathan

[@rigilkentaurus4262]

I'm really proud of seeing Dr Alcubierre talked with you!!!! This is insanely great! Love your vid so much

[@aliteralsliceofbread]

Not notif squad, but i just got lucky checking KZbin

[@chrisreilly1290]

Not having warp drives to get to another solar system in a single lifetime is one of my biggest pet peeves about living during this time scientifically

[@bradysmith4405]

Technically, even though it’s still probably a century off, you wouldn’t need ftl to get to the few nearest stars. There are a few between 10 and 4.3 lightyears which I’m sure you know. We’d just need near light speed travel. Still way above our capabilities but wouldn’t need any new physics.

[@twenty-fifth420]

Why is thor teaching me about warp drive when he can just use the Bifröst? By the way I just started but if I dont hear anything about Lentz’s new paper I will be disappointed in the god of science. Thunder. I don’t know anymore.

[@jgostling]

What did you expect them to do in order to build the Bifrost in the first place? Break the laws of nature?

[@MegamanXGold]

1. Stoked by Dr. Miguel Alcubierre being on the show. 2. Distracted by the Enterprise-E, Tie Fighter, and Death Star on the screens in the background. And is that a Stargate? Maybe a Dyson's Sphere? The Caretaker's array or maybe a Borg sensor array from Voyager? Super curious what all the graphics are in the background now. 3. Dr. Miguel Alcubierre is a pretty cool guy.

[@intstantoctopus]

So I've been thinking. If something could travel faster than light, would there be a visual equivalent of a sonic boom?

[@victorhugoeh974]

Interesting... Maybe it could be something as that Cherenkov's luminiscence which happens in nuclear reactors.

[@fencserx9423]

My man called himself “a dollar store Thor” like a freaking legend

[@ddaneh3090]

Roasting himself like no other 🤣

[@widdershins5383]

Never forget the Gellar field when traveling through the underverse hahaha

[@NightLexic]

Hey now, we're not ripping a hole in spacetime and travelling through the literal warp that would be ridiculous. Its interesting to think though the closest game that can be most possible would be the FSD from the Elite series.

[@JaxMerrick]

@@NightLexic And with Kyle's remarks on economy class, this is giving me Beluga Liner flashbacks from Elite Dangerous.

[@NightLexic]

@@JaxMerrick Your not wrong

[@Blackwind_Legacy]

Warp Drive is not hyperdrive. You're not tunneling into another dimension to bypass light speed. Just stretching and condensing space.

[@NightLexic]

@@Blackwind_Legacy Just to note the FSD is a hybrid drive, It acts like a warp drive when in normal space (interplanetary travel) and when jumping to another system its in its hyperdrive state opening a stable hyperspace corridor for the duration of travel.

[@Winged_Snek]

That Dazed and Confused reference caught me off guard, even though I should have seen it coming. Well played, Kyle.

[@MrHavadollar]

Sci-fi writer, here. I read and research, but I only have a layman's idea of what's going on with theoretical space travel. I'm glad we're closer by knowing it takes positive energy, which is easier to find, and won't take a collapsing brown dwarf star's worth of energy every time we would want to "warp." We can do the "creating a warp bubble" part, but the problem is aiming it. There's currently no way to sense just where you are in this transitory state. You could end up literally anywhere. Space bends and curves in waves and eddies, like an ocean. The current models feel like trying to build this think like a steamship, crashing through the waves, pointing in a direction without considering the compression and expansion of space outside the bubble. I'm with the idea that following the curvature of time/space, understanding the rate of time outside the bubble and moving within that range, is the only way to be able to aim where you are going. That means facing each obstacle in space/time that effects it is a new problem. Black holes, supermassive stars, and even nebulae all provide different sets of problems when it comes to how space moves on the scale we have to view the universe from. We're still just little bits of carbon that want to traverse this universe.

[@TheMarilith]

I become really a fan of Miguel Alcubierre since I heard about his theory about the Warp drive concept, I really hope mankind will be able to make it meanwhile we're still alive and so by the way allow us to see this creation becoming reality and the start of a new ERA, if such happens Dr. Alcubierre will for sure deserve a Nobel Price in Physics.

[@bhuvaneshs.k638]

Now topics like this does put a smile on my face... ❤️

[@darkdracha]

"Space surfing" is my absolute favorite FTL travel method.

[@brookbouvier7749]

Kyle, congrats on a crazy good episode. your hard work is showing, thank you for bringing us science in these trying times 🥰🥰🥰

[@jasonhaymanonthedrawingboard]

I’ve often thought about warp drive. I hear the major issues are energy threshold. However there is a way to get around it without expending too much energy. If warp drive is a wave form in space time then. There is a wave computation that could be used to create a freak energy spike( rouge wave) basically absorbing energy from it surroundings and realising it back once you drop out of warp. If negative energy is a wave trough and the peak the positive point on a wave. The the difference between the two would be the warp effect. More over if you measure the whole distance as a whole number say 360. anything divided into 360 never reaches zero. So if using a distance over time calculations combine with that the wave function over that distance. should give you the warp factor. you need to reach the furtherest point in space. Or at the very least the frequency you need to use to get there. A freak soliton wave would be your best bet. You may be able to influence the acceleration curve by where exactly you input energy into the system. Never forget suck,squeeze, bang, blow. Any point here could effect the warp effect you might be able to achieve. Be that induction compression power exhaust. I can’t run the numbers but believe this to be about right. Star Trek has warp 9.9999 ect, we could have it shown as 0.0000000001 for example. If they were using 360, then their scale would make sense. As nothing can break that constant. No Matter how big the numbers were. relativity would still apply to some degree here based on distance need to travel. Love it when geometry comes to the rescue. I hope that this helps, good luck! To infinity and beyond!

[@YoJesusMorales]

Nice interview with a friendly scientist. I like this format honestly.

[@Qsie]

Hell yeah, warp drives!

[@hyenalingo]

i believe the book "a wrinkle in time" (i think it was that one) explained this very well, with an ant on cloth

[@TwoWholeWorms]

"Dollar-Store Thor" *chokes on coffee laughing*

[@moorflower4118]

Aww I love how excited he is about what he's working on!!!!!

[@MullinerLtd]

Shoutout to Kyle and Surfshark from Bulgaria!!! 🇧🇬

[@sonicartist91]

I have a question about the “Warp Bubble” What would happen if something or someone intersected/came in contact with a warp bubble? Would they be okay? Or would it act like a cosmic knife cutting the object where it was intersected?

[@bottledcat6255]

the fields seem to be 'smooth', at least from what my (probably very wrong) understanding I got from reading the papers, so id suppose stuff infront of a ship would be more like stretched/twisted rather than cut through. like how u get noodle-fied when being sucked into a blackhole but in weirder shapes

[@PaulZyCZ]

@digifalc0087 Was it passing through or around? But if I remember correctly, either should work.