Two Scientists Are Building a Real Star Trek 'Impulse Engine'

[@Ohmriginal722]

I hope this 79 year old at least gets to see his idea tested in space. If it gets debunked like the EM drive, and I expect it will, so be it, but often science is all about finding 99 ideas that won't work before you find 1 idea that does, but those 99 ideas still taught you something, and I hope this teaches us something as well.

[@gracialonignasiver6302]

I doubt it will work, but I really hope he gets to see his idea tested in space.

[@cedriceric9730]

@@gorgthesalty and engineers have found that it could even be used to create enough negative matter for a wormhole By disconnecting a body completely from inertia the body's electrons act as negative matter You don't even need that much mass to begin with due to some wierd quantum effect That mass can hold a wormhole throat open as long as you can maintain it! That's even better than a warp drive since Even at Mach 10 of light it still takes too much time on a cosmological scale to reach bodies of interest

[@OktavianiFriska]

Agree, this is what we should learn on school. Even we learn about theory, they should push us to make another theory or technology

[@chrisbraid2907]

If it does work I hope that they can scale it to useful size …. We really won’t know until we try …

[@TheBreezus]

@@chrisbraid2907 I share the same sentiment. We should try. We won't know until we try.

[@johnhiggs5932]

Real science happens at the edge and it requires a person bold enough to risk being wrong. No matter the outcome, I applaud these daring people!

[@Piddlefoots]

This will go no where. This is just a scam for funding. That could have been spent on better things.

[@Pelletajuton1]

@@Piddlefoots Could you explain? Frontier science is always difficult to justify before the effects of a possible discovery are understood.. If the theory would turn out true, it could probably be applied to a huge variety of other fields than space travel, even though efficient space travel itself could result in moving some of our destructive behaviors off the planet we're currently destroying.. i myself don't really believe that this kind of inertial drive would be made to work, but i've been wrong before, and would like nothing more than to be proven wrong about something like this. My belief that it wouldn't work is nothing more than a belief, neither is yours. Even if you tried this same thing and didn't get it to work, it only proves that YOU didn't get it to work, not that it's impossible.

[@Piddlefoots]

@@Pelletajuton1 In short, it requires negative energy densities, which can't be strictly disproven but are probably unrealistic; the total amount of energy is likely to be equivalent to the mass-energy of an astrophysical body; like EARTH, the ENTIRE Earth, burnt as fuel, following, and the gravitational fields produced would likely rip any ship to shreds. Sean Carrol's estimate of the likelihood we will ever be able to build a "warp drive" is much less than 1%. And the chances it will happen in the next hundred years I would put at less than 0.01%. But they are very pretty pictures! Would look great in a movie.

[@belken117]

Absolutely well said!

[@Piddlefoots]

@@Pelletajuton1 Some of us in the real world have a scientific degree, and we know how hard real science can be, and the limits of the laws of physics are not something we can just break willy nilly with sci fi fantasy, like negative energy, in our world, we REQUIRE real testable evidence to confirm such facts......Less it not be a fact........Following ?

[@LukePuplett]

I need to pull that quote out by Mike McDonald, "Science isn't a tool that gets dirtied by use" because that's just as important in business as it is in theoretical physics.

[@PHlophe]

When i read that, i just went " Whew ! Chile, you took me out ".

[@FBandSpin]

It’s a great, truthful liner! Applicable is so many fields. I loved everything he said.

[@gregorygolando]

But scientists do.

[@tonysamaniego7875]

Not sure about that...in business you have to be conscious of costs, so you can’t just experiment away with every idea. It might not get dirty but it sure gets expensive.

[@dakinmaher4522]

Agreed

[@greggwilliamson]

I love the researcher's attitude!! That is exactly the way Real Science is done. I don't know who said it (sorry), but I've heard it quoted, "Great discoveries are not always the experiments intended outcome. It's when the Scientist looks at the results and thinks, *that's odd*"

[@schubertuk]

I think that was the late, great Isaac Asimov: “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka! ' but 'That's funny…'” The quote says "that's funny" rather than odd, but meant as 'peculiar' rather than funny-ha-ha

[@alanmalcheski8882]

well that makes me... a really great discovery, then. The best kind.

[@jv-lk7bc]

James Burke is another likely candidate.

[@MrFlexNC]

I have a soft spot for old scientists devoting their lives to one particular question

[@solver55]

🤣rick

[@Qwerty-qy9oj]

Wabalabadubdub

[@shaun906]

pickle Rick...🥒 actually it reminds me of SABRE and skylon in the uk

[@willymakeit5172]

Don’t know about these other replies, but I’m in your corner.

[@justkiddin1980]

It also can be a problem if it turns out the science is bust...

[@yourdeadfeet]

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”

[@andrewmaperson]

yes

[@jaymac7203]

Ricky Gervais to Karl Pilkington. Lool 😂

[@eventfulnonsense]

A beautiful quote ♥️

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

That's a beautiful quote but you never gave anyone credit for it. Is it anonymous? Is it you?

[@tisrettamton153]

@@PaulTheSkeptic Greek Proverb

[@clanpsi]

Even if it turns out to not work, I'm still really proud that there people like these guys who are pushing the boundaries. True pioneers.

[@dingdong2103]

What's interesting is that many times scientists draw inspiration from science fiction and actually manage to make it work. It's like fiction predicts the future. We should all start to write about amazing things in the hope of making them true one day :)

[@michaelarnold1672]

The works of this man & men will live on for 1,000's of years as people cook off of Woodward's Recipe's ,

[@kathleenmann7311]

Imagination is just as important as knowledge.

[@ianp3112]

@@kathleenmann7311 only if you can differentiate between fact and fiction, fantasy vs reality!

[@ianp3112]

So in your view, scam artists are pioneers just because you wish it so!

[@roberthiggins9115]

I can relate to this man. I am 82 years old and have been working for four years trying to improve the Cyclorotor drive. It gives me a goal at a late age.

[@anthonygordon9483]

Got to keep exercising your brain. And maybe you might discover something a long the way.

[@lillyanneserrelio2187]

The cyclorotor is one of those reinventing the windmill kind of things. Barges use them for their high torque at low speeds but they have been extensively tested by the military and ruled too inefficient for high speed crafts (air or water)

[@roberthiggins9115]

@@lillyanneserrelio2187 Thanks for the remark about inefficiency. I thot that when I looked at the device and my efforts use a different approach that I think will greatly improve efficiency. Cyclotech in Austria is pursuing the technology for use in air and just received a $20M grant.

[@business]

"I'm 79-years-old. I don't know how long I'm going to live. Maybe I'll see something in space, maybe I won't. If I live longer than that, I'm pretty sure I will see something in space. Science fiction will be vindicated as transformed into science fact in that regard." - Professor Jim Woodward To learn more about the MEGA Drive concept, read the white paper here: www.researchgate.net/publication/269207998_Theory_of_a_Mach_Effect_Thruster_I

[@polychoron]

Best of luck, Jim. Live long & prosper.

[@pedoboybear3792]

Do everything to bring your body outside of the planet earth to see the reality beyond your body vs the Spirit/Consciousness if they separated by Death and no hades can restrained on you after you escaped on to god's curse within this planet I try hard to Discover the God's truth but ended up in the Devils traps same like Judas failed on its own and don't succeeded until the right time.

[@nixl3518]

@Fun With Minerals what does "cor" mean?

[@nixl3518]

@Fun With Minerals he obviously has some health issues.

[@nixl3518]

​@Fun With Minerals I don't really understand your comment. Nobody here is discussing the aging process or what happens when you're over 30. This man does not look like a man of 79 but a man with severe health issues that make him appear to be over 100 years old! You obviously have no experience with older people to make a comment of this kind.

[@fancyIOP]

Jim should be relaxing at home at his age but he doesn’t wanna let his knowledge relax and die out. Big ups to the old people who are still active to make a change.🙌🏿👊🏿

[@esecallum]

MOST PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 25 ARE DISMISSED AS TOO OLD.

[@fancyIOP]

@@esecallum haha I hear you but you can see that Jim still has a mind of a 20yr old… he doesn’t wanna give up, he loves what he’s doing. So I guess it’s the drive within that keeps us going and he has a lot of it.

[@esecallum]

@Peter Evans with people like YOU we would still be in the caves.

[@phildavenport4150]

@@esecallum And this is relevant to the topic - how?

[@fancyIOP]

@Peter Evans indeed buddy, indeed.

[@taithai8726]

This level of devotion is just insane. Much respect!!

[@thewealthand_health]

You have to be insane to comprehend the science 🧪 🔬⚙️

[@OktavianiFriska]

@@thewealthand_health LeL, like what Einstein say

[@chrishayes5755]

can tell all that studying and working the the laboratory took a hard toll on his health and body. guy deserves a lot of respect for his sacrifices, even if his devices never ends up working to the extent he wanted.

[@Ottee2]

@@chrishayes5755 , I hope he lives to see his theory vindicated by proof.

[@ClaytonBigsby01]

@@chrishayes5755 working on a passion project fully funded at a university took a toll on his health and body 😅 lol don't make me laugh kid

[@timmo971]

I found it interesting that whoever built the graphic of the boat rowing @3:55 doesn’t even know which direction a rowing boat goes.

[@2019inuyasha]

normally the person rowing moves backwards. there is a system that can installed that changes the normal paddling direction to move you forwards however.

[@nephicus339]

If you mean the part with the trash cans of water; when the center of gravity 'moves back,' it's not actually moving, the boat is. So the boat will go forward to the passenger's perspective. They aren't moving the water as with oars, they're just shifting their weight and the boat is moving.

[@Zorlof]

Never mind the drive, this 79 year old man is the treasure.

[@OktavianiFriska]

Agree, what if his brain and Einstein brain is communicating on giant vial and talking about gravity and stuff, we already on the space like on jupiter or even several lightyears

[@ForgeMasterXXL]

Total agree and his dedication, even if it does not work is amazing.

[@steady3459]

COMMON WE HAVE ZERO POINT ENERGY THE CABAL ARE HORDING !

[@pjm760]

And his speech is made of gold

[@igkslife]

The drive is possible, and will work.

[@CarlosTheGreat-j7i]

These guys are real scientist. Sceptical to the core, as a scientist should always be.

[@leaguemastergg3647]

though I wonder if this will be another 3x+1 rabbit hole that isn't provable or disprovable

[@dijasom]

He's looking for the resonant frequency of gravity, he just doesn't seem to understand that yet. When you use sound, to vibrate Crystal to shattering, that is a runaway resonant chain reaction. The same can be done with pretty much any material, just the effect is different. For instance, in a liquid, it would create a wave, that would then come back, and be propelled again away, etc, etc. Do this right, and you have propulsion. Gravity is everywhere, so it would be really, really hard to find it, as its hard to make something, prefer a direction, when all directions oppose the system. Think of gravity as water, though we have no idea, where the shore is for testing what its like without it. What he's doing, can't be disproven, as he is right... though, his instrument, isn't likely built correctly, and that particular instrument, could be disproven. It would go a much farther way, for him to prove, he could create a Water based "Thruster" with no "moving" parts, rather than gravity... as that is orders of magnitude harder, as its Far, less viscous.

[@imengaginginclown-to-clown9363]

@@leaguemastergg3647 It is unknown if the Collatz conjecture is independent of ZFC.

[@Antebios]

@@leaguemastergg3647 Ah, I see you're a Veritasium person as well.

[@zyansheep]

@@leaguemastergg3647 It's a different kind of provable / disprovable. With math, we invent the framework, the rules for how it works. With physics we are testing things out to see if our models are accurate or not.

[@quigonbond]

I wish Professor Woodward a long life so that he may see fruition of his theory into applied science.

[@Gabriel-um9hm]

it's fake

[@earlmarshall6543]

@@Gabriel-um9hm how do you know? back in the 60's and 70's Cell Phone theory and technology was considered fake and the product of an over-exaggerated mind. Now today most everyone has one.

[@poodtang2104]

Agreed.

[@bigd5899]

@@Gabriel-um9hm i dont think nasa supports fake physicists

[@arkvoodleofthesacredcrotch6060]

I get what you meant but I don't think this dude needs any wishes for a long life, he already has that. Now he needs wishes for a sudden breakthrough/development in his work

[@einarcharleslarsen]

I really appreciate this old man's work to advance humanity. We need to stop saying that things are insane, idiotic or pointless. Any idea that can enrich us as a cosmically positive civilization should be viewed with great respect, even if it is controversial. It should be logical that it's precisely controversial solutions that give us new opportunities, and which we should therefore focus on. If it turns out that this will not work as desired, the creator of the idea has achieved a historic feat.

[@joshuadaly1295]

I like that this piece encouraged skepticism while also given the proponents of the mega drive a chance to make their case. I sincerely hope something amazing comes from this, but I appreciate that the scientists and engineers involved are willing to be proven wrong.

[@brianwright9514]

Science can never be fully realized if the people researching are so married to their ideas that they'll ignore contradictory results.

[@coralreef909]

Meanwhile there are extraterrestrial craft zipping along through our skies. What do they know that we have the inability to see. Our brain power has hit a roadblock.

[@TheJimtanker]

@@coralreef909 I must have missed that on the news. Where have you seen that there are extraterrestrial craft zipping through our skies?

[@thewizzard3150]

but are their detractors and competitors willing to have them proved right. I don't think so!

[@WCM1945]

They still have a lot of explaining to do...

[@DanyCesc83]

Mad respect to these scientist who’s worked on this his entire life, investing his own money! If they can make this work, the applications for use here on earth will be invaluable and then move to space use.

[@DhrubajyotiRaja01]

Should Give Priority to an American Company for Industrial Use if It's made Practically Usable .....

[@KWifler]

I can't help but draw a similarity between my quest to get a girlfriend and this old guy's quest.... Someday that old guy will be me, still trying to get a girlfriend...

[@Ryan-eu3kp]

@@KWifler Don't dwell on it mate, it will happen. But if your not doing anything to make it happen then nothing will change

[@RickMyBalls]

That research really took its toll - he's only 30!

[@Ash-yh5yn]

"Gee guys, I'm really sorry. You know, it wasn't real after all." The fact that he's willing to own up to being wrong if he's proven wrong makes me adore this guy. I hope this works out for him :)

[@rogerjamespaul5528]

Obviously not a Trumpian.

[@harrier331]

@MichaelKingsfordGray And neither is yours... how does that make him a hypocrite...

[@bongo3997]

@@rogerjamespaul5528 whats a Trumpian?

[@Ash-yh5yn]

@@harrier331 You know, my initials are actually A.S.H.

[@mr.zafner8295]

You hope it works out for him? I hope it works out for all mankind

[@oeliamoya9796]

When I see these old scientists dedicating their entire life to one topic of research, I wish these great men had longer lifespans to keep pushing the limits of our knowledge

[@JP13795]

The theoretical physics side of these ideas aren't always wrong, its the ability to engineer the equipment that can actually do it.

[@michac3796]

New times, new materials, new possibilities, new Ideas, new possibilities, new materials, new times.

[@BerryTheBnnuy]

Dude, this isn't a theory, it's not a part of theoretical physics. 5:24 How do piezoelectric crystals change their mass? This is literally not an observed behavior piezoelectric crystals have. The only sense in which "the ability to engineer equipment that can actually do it" is even remotely correct is in that if something is impossible, it is necessary that no one has the ability to engineer equipment that can actually do it.

[@VSci_]

@@BerryTheBnnuy The total mass of objects do change due to their motion. He is saying the relativistic mass of the crystals increases then they turn it off and keep the forward momentum. Im not sure about this idea I have to think about it more

[@_____J______]

yeah yeah yeah, but you got to push theory further, if you will stomp the ground in one place -- you wont progress

[@eventhisidistaken]

@@BerryTheBnnuy They do change mass - they gain relativistic mass during acceleration. Relativistic mass is established and uncontroversial science. Conceptually, this is easy to understand. You use a current to cause momentary acceleration of the crystal, and during that time, the total mass increases due to the relativistic aspect. You push that system while it momentarily weighs slightly more, and then the acceleration/deceleration stops, and you pull the system, which now weighs slightly less. The net effect is the acceleration of the the thing doing the pushing and pulling - the spacecraft.

[@MichaelGalt]

I love seeing old scientists like that still working and trying to and making significant contributions. It's too bad he probably won't see it make it to the real-world application phase... but hopefully he has children/grandchildren who will.

[@warrencurtis7442]

Hopefully he'll get some credit.

[@baogiangtran1647]

I felt the same

[@alanmalcheski8882]

you must be saying that because you're not clear on what they're saying or how it works. I believe that if you were, you'd know that it's entirely possible and there's no reason that it shouldn't have been done already, and probably was. Piezo is a technology that was used in "fake" spaceships 80 years ago. Sure it had bigger crystals but it's piezo. You wanna know how a substance can change mass? the Higgs field, it exists. Not a secret if you study, just one of those things nobody will admit publicly.

[@alanmalcheski8882]

... and I said Field, not particle. Big difference. If you won't take the time to look into quantum physics, the power of the universe will never be revealed to you. money.

[@thastayapongsak4422]

Well you're a scientist. You're supposed to explore hypothesis, not turn down things just because the consensus is "this can't work".

[@IssasHusband]

You've got to understand that they cant possibly test all the wonky ideas people come up with, some may be so laughable they are akin to wasting time because none of the concepts of the device make any sense and the creator doesn't seem to understand the physics behind the device either

[@paulus121212]

he is young all scientific breakthroughs have allways been done by older ppl as they think outside the box the young like to stick by the book

[@krashdown5814]

@@paulus121212 Tesla wasn't old, such a shame his research is held by the USA.

[@cedriceric9730]

@@IssasHusband testing this is extremely low cost! They can do this test with 1% the cost of buying coffee for the baboons at ITER What the heck could you be complaning about

[@meleardil]

There are MANY things which work fine on paper, but in reality they dont. Not because of the "idea" behind it is wrong, but because the complexity of reality thwarts it, or the actual result is so minuscule that no practical use is possible. This seems to be the same to me. The key is the "change in mass" principle. How big is that? Also, is there ANY other effect countering it? It must be proved that there is NO possible "external" source of inertia. So, the "engine" can REALLY move on its own. The experiment is not built to prove that, which I see as a problem. The PRINCIPLE must be proven first, and THAN you can work on the most practical use of it.

[@goldiz1978]

It would be interesting to see something like this tested in zero gravity.

[@Mic_Glow]

Doesn't matter much if it's tested in leo or on earth surface in a vacuum tube... to get to "almost 0g" you would need to go far away from any celestial object

[@AZOffRoadster]

@@Mic_Glow No such thing as zero-g. Think of LIGO.

[@terryhayward7905]

Zero gravity does not exist, you mean zero RELATIVE gravity. The drive depends on gravity to work.

[@owenlaprath4135]

This needs to be tested in a vacuum, because there are acoustic and aerodynamic effects with what they are doing, that have to be excluded first!

[@kenrolt8072]

Agreed. The device uses piezoelectric transducers of the same type used in sonar. Testing in a vacuum would then avoid acoustic radiation pressure (a nonlinear effect) from the aluminum vibrating head.

[@leoleony1]

I believe I saw some vacuum chambers in their lab and office. I didn't read the study, but I believe they've set up in one of those chambers.

[@Gabriel-um9hm]

It's fake... It amazes me how they managed to con people into giving them money.

[@regmigrant]

@@Gabriel-um9hm you seem very sure, where is your data coming from?

[@ramirowendler]

Em drive flashbacks

[@worldcomicsreview354]

"Captain's log: All the engines are down, but luckily we all got home by brushing our teeth"

[@Djake3tooth]

This comment is underrated

[@gmork1090]

@@Djake3tooth Nah, I rate this comment extremely top shelf.

[@harrypothead4575]

Elaborate please?

[@HoHhoch]

@@harrypothead4575 The crystals they're using are the same ones you can find in an electrical toothbrush.

[@MIHMediaInc]

Albeit: impulse 😅

[@arfyness]

"science isn't a tool that gets dirty by use" i love that

[@coreyc47]

No but sometimes it's just dirty from the beginning! Not in this case though!

[@ShifuCareaga]

It gets dirty from corruption and abuse

[@gmork1090]

The scientific method. Not necessarily science itself as that can get sullied and perverted. The scientific method, however, can be utilized in all branches of knowledge.

[@DrRusty5]

The history is littered with occasions where an incorrect understanding was accepted to the effect that to say otherwise was hearsay - for example Phlogiston Theory. Eventually scientists realised that the answer was oxidation but having held onto the existence of Phlogiston for so long it had the effect of actually holding back science. Scientists through history who have challenged the convention are inevitably dismissed and ignored - only for some to be proven they were on the right track years later (often after their death). The pursuit of scientific discoveries should not be inhibited by the bias of think we know how everything works.

[@JosephKriz-f2q]

Truly happy to hear about this😊!❤

[@pauljmeyer1]

No matter what the result, the endeavour is marvellous.

[@alext5497]

So long as you aren't the one funding it

[@marcobertoglio7729]

Beyond the fragility of old age, keeping the dream and not giving up... That is Star trek.

[@peppeddu]

We built the International Space Station *specifically* to study these kind of things. Why not send a prototype over there and study it over a period of months and see if it actually works? I'm sure it's better than growing peppers, torturing insects or sending people to make movies.

[@jamiemezs9891]

Because that would make sense and you know the politicians would never go for it.

[@MrFujinko]

Almost all of the science made in the ISS could have been done in specialized satellites for a fraction of the cost. The ISS existence is largely political. And it has been an absolute success in this regard. Regarding science, it effects are net negative. The biggest cost is to maintain humans alive in space. As many experiments do not need humans per se, they could have been realized in crafts not human rated.

[@edwardj.coxjr.3031]

NRL and NASA get this going ASAP!

[@jessepollard7132]

but much less profitable than the movies.

[@tapewerm6716]

@@MrFujinko How has it been an absolute success when the U.S. and NATO are engaged in a proxy war with Russia?

[@ravd8082]

great to see these scientist still have the motivation to create this concept

[@phxzedior6823]

i like to imagine that in a parrarel universe, Jim is actually the father of the golden era of mankind, where he already invented this many years ago, leading to the expansion of the human race onto the cosmos.

[@BerryTheBnnuy]

I like to imagine that in a parallel universe, I don't have to deal with a constant deluge of pseudoscience from deranged, hyperenthusiastic neophiles.

[@Westwardsir]

@@BerryTheBnnuy Is that... someone who's sexually attracted to the matrix series?

[@kidyomu89]

in this universe, we'll have to wait and see

[@ManicPandaz]

The hard question of science isn’t “what can I prove true?” real question is “what question am I going to devote my life to try and answer?”

[@timokreuzer1820]

Sadly these days science is most often not about answering a question, but to get a publication claiming to answer one.

[@disgruntledwookie369]

No, it's "how can I disprove this theory". Your comment is so typical of pseudo-science videos like this one. No surprise that the commenters don't understand the scientific method.

[@TheRootedWord]

No. The hard question is that question you are most afraid to ask. Second hardest is that question you would immediately dismiss as silly.

[@ManicPandaz]

@@disgruntledwookie369 Dude, what’s your problem? Try reading the comment again... Spending your life tying to answer “is this wrong?” is also asking a question. I specially juxtaposed”answer a question” with “prove. After all “proof” is only useful in math, baking and alcohol.

[@ManicPandaz]

@@TheRootedWord I hear what you’re saying and I understand how hard those are but I tend to disagree. Mostly because I see spending 30 years of your life trying to answer a single question as harder than simply asking any question. What you spend 1/3 of your life doing is a hard question for everyone, science entirely aside.

[@axem.8338]

9 days before Wright brothers flew their aircraft, there was an article in newspapers saying human flight is impossible.

[@JackTheMurderer]

I still don't believe that humans will ever be able to fly.

[@EleanorPeterson]

Newspapers? Journalists? Bah! It's always conveniently overlooked, but Sir George Cayley achieved man-carrying human flight in 1853, exactly fifty years before the Wright peeps got airborne under power (they credited Cayley for his aeronautical research data and original development work). Cayley's flight was in an unpowered aircraft because there were no suitable engines available at the time, but whoever was writing for that newspaper should definitely have Googled 'human flight's already been done' before going to print. 😁

[@graham1034]

@@JackTheMurderer On Earth anyway. But in the clouds of Jupiter in a specially designed suit? Maybe one day.

[@agentredbone1667]

Just like "getting the jab saves lives" One week later "you can still get covid and die and also die from the jab "...."oh and mask up, do as we say, and rights? What's that?"

[@carlrodalegrado4104]

People even said no aircraft could fly over the Atlantic ocean

[@N1originalgazza]

It's amazing to see a man of that age still devote his life to solving an, almost, impossible equation!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@nathanmoses1953]

Which equation?

[@N1originalgazza]

@@nathanmoses1953 The "equation" to tap in the the gravitational potential of the universe, the MEGA drive.

[@passerby4507]

"Are we collectively smoking something?" -- Professor Jim Woodward 2021

[@inlustrismedia]

I'll have what he's having.

[@krashdown5814]

Tesla was smokin in his Tesla cage.

[@dmacpher]

Canada checking in - yes

[@arson8582]

Why yes. Yes we are.

[@rogerjamespaul5528]

Elon is one of those collective smokers who discovered a way to think outside the box, by learning to control what he smoked instead of being controlled by what he smoked. I assume.

[@dsdy1205]

Wow, didn't know Woodward was still working actively on this, mad respect honestly.

[@Piddlefoots]

ZERO Respect is what he deserves, he is in it for grant money, not to actually build a warp drive, learn the factual science, this is nothing more than a fantasy.......

[@twixxtro]

Hope he still is hope hes sucessful🙏

[@dlperk5035]

What do you mean by "mad respect"? Do you even know what it means...

[@dsdy1205]

@@dlperk5035 It means I greatly respect him. That's it.

[@god4943]

@@dlperk5035 lol what?

[@nelsonvallin3535]

Amazing!!! To pursue one vision even though it's extremely unlikely to succeed or bring any immediate gains. Is a level resilience I wish to attain one day.

[@neeneko]

careful what you wish for, it is the same mental trap that makes things like Nigerian scams work. People do not like being wrong, and once enough energy is sunk into something, no amount of facts will convince a person that they are wrong because they have invested their very sense of self in being right. People like woodward are not to be admired. They are not resilient, they have tied their idea to their identity and are trapped, for failing to believe in their idea is so psychotically devastating they will do anything to avoid it.

[@nelsonvallin3535]

@@neeneko Only the crazy ones keep going when all the metrics and all the data is going against them. 99% of fail, only 1% are lucky enough to be right. Despite the odds. But the 1% are the ones that change our reality. Being an entrepreneur or scientist you have to be comfortable with the likelihood that you will not make it. But you want it so bad you will risk it all anyway.

[@MrJdsenior]

@@neeneko "failing to believe in their idea is so psychotically devastating they will do anything to avoid it" Wow, you must have watched a different video than I did. From what I could see he is a guy that believes there may be some physical property of the universe that might be utilized for space ship drive. And he pointed out several times he definitely has his doubts...who wouldn't. And I think you maybe meant psychologically rather than psychotically devastating.

[@neeneko]

@@MrJdsenior yep, psychologically. ah autocorrect on a small screen. It isn't just the video, it is having rubbernecked this guy for years now. He has long since been dismissed by domain experts but has a strong in the fringe crowd and from time to time hooks mainstream sources like this one,.. enough to keep him validated.

[@pragyavats7776]

i just realize how important my age and time for me right now for accomplishing my ambition... if they are wild enough they need years of patience and work by hard work and smartness you can make those years less but it all unpredictable.

[@garrithsmith799]

All that dedication wont go unnoticed. One day this research could be a catalyst for the next step into space travel. Very impressive!

[@JosephDavies]

It may also prove to be a dead-end, but the information gained is still valuable.

[@dial8702]

True people, devoting their limited lives to improve and evolve humanity so that the future ones can live as long as the universe exists. Not looking for profit, looking for eternity in a history book. A big cheers to them.

[@williamjames9515]

The difficult part is getting enough Dilithium Crystals.

[@Visbalalam]

That's for warp drive, not impulse 😀

[@Lennis01]

Impulse drives are powered my fusion reactors. Another handy thing to have if we could actually build it.

[@Saint.questions]

Exactly

[@MasterMayhem78]

@@Lennis01 Some have been built and actually work but only for a short time. The problem is containment of the plasma.

[@gordonpeacman2126]

@@Lennis01 Fission ....

[@mrvolcada5355]

I was always taught that there is no such thing as a bad idea. The bad thing about ideas is a lack of them. Even if you think an idea is bad it may stimulate thought or provide a nugget for a newer and better idea.

[@vidalvasquez1123]

I like the fact that these scientist and engineers are very humble about it.

[@Piddlefoots]

Because they know its TOTAL BS..... But a grant for Billions would be nice........Mr tax payer.... ???

[@blockhead1899]

@@Piddlefoots As if the government cares about your pathetic excuse for tax payments

[@Piddlefoots]

@@blockhead1899 Dude pay attention, you obviously cant read properly, the TAX is about YOU the tax payer, and corporations getting grants to do BS that will never go anywhere, are nothing but a tax rip off, corporations getting YOUR TAX MONEY for things they should not...... Get it now mate ? And if you think that's rubbish explain the Us military block mate...GAMEOVER your simply wrong...... 1/3 of US economy internal, is nothing other than Military corporations, all paid by TAX MONEY ya genius..... So YES governments absolutely DO CARE about tax payments, in both directions....... Inbound and outbound.

[@nautilosad6024]

You have to love geeks. All they need is an idea, no matter how extreme, they'll find a way to make it happen if it inspires them.

[@cedriceric9730]

Imagination is what sets us apart from animals Yes it's a geek superpower There is absolutely nothing naturally impossible if you give us geeks enough time

[@OktavianiFriska]

Agree, just put us a lot of money and our idea would be next breakthrough innovation that maybe can beat Einstein

[@nixl3518]

That's quite a statement there @@OktavianiFriska !!! Didn't anyone teach u humility when u were growing up, or is that one of u're geeky attributes that keeps u away from civilized society? Perhaps, judging from ur avatar, u still have a ways to go!

[@leek6927]

nick are you saying that being smart/ a scientist makes you uncivilized?

[@nixl3518]

@@leek6927 your logic escapes me!

[@whiterottenrabbit]

1:25: Narrator: "Nasa is taking the idea seriously" Video: shows Comic Sans Me: **facepalm**

[@mms09]

It wasn’t just me 😅😬🤦‍♀️

[@imstupid880]

Beat me to it

[@al424242]

I went to a lecture by a visiting Nobel prize winner and they used comic sans, must be some sort of joke.

[@bluelpgamers8509]

@@al424242 I use comic sans out of spite

[@o15523]

That's how you know it's the *real NASA*

[@arinallen]

It's a great idea, how in general, an impulse drive might work. It does make sense. It is interesting that inertia is the force in focus here. If those crystals can deliver this I would certainly like to know how they increase and decrease mass in that manner. Thank you for your inspiring work!

[@AZOffRoadster]

Einstein's equation E=MC2. Energy is mass. A compressed spring weighs more than an uncompressed one.

[@lordnk3698]

if we ever build a first starship ... we gotta to name it after Jim Woodward

[@saxmidiman]

Could the first Interstellar Starship be a "Woodie"?🤣🙄😎

[@garypeatling7927]

Jim enterprise

[@calebclunie4001]

I'm definitely distantly related to Mr. Fearn, but yes Jim Woodward deserves the credit.

[@MrJdsenior]

@@saxmidiman Just couldn't let it go, could ya? Funny, though, in a pedestrian sort of way. :-) Thumbed.

[@Warrenwalker30]

They honestly need to bring in more people because when engineering something new there's one outlook or perception from each person if you bring an outsider in he can give a brand new perspective and ideas to the project that just might bring it to life

[@MIHMediaInc]

With how science has been compartmentalised that's unlikely to happen.

[@Warrenwalker30]

@@MIHMediaInc yep because your always ridiculed if your the one that comes up with the new theory or discovery until it's deeply proven correct ..but until then they call you crazy

[@MIHMediaInc]

@@Warrenwalker30 right on

[@fahimp3]

@@Warrenwalker30 But there is new tech that is always coming out... I don't think people dismiss this as much as the stereotype goes since they got a govt agency looking into it...

[@lostgleammedia]

more Women brought into these things.. who knows what will be discovered with an even more brand new perspective

[@mr.stand_by6316]

So...its a vibrator, that moves itself in space? Fascinating. 😊

[@outerrealm]

I don’t see why anyone would call this a Star Trek impulse engine. Even mega drive has no page in wikipedia

[@PhillipAmthor]

What a cool man doing all by himself and even paying for it. This is how the ideal grandpa looks like you may not like it but this is how peak performance and being badass looks like.

[@steady3459]

COMMON WE HAVE ZERO POINT ENERGY THE CABAL ARE HORDING !

[@RickMyBalls]

What. What it looks like.

[@ryanaiden]

Jim totally looks like he could be the great great grandfather of Jean-Luc Picard.

[@geokon3]

If his idea works, he could become!!

[@Dalicaruncho]

But the actual actor STILL playing Picard, Sir Patrick Stewart, is in fact older than him :)

[@ryanaiden]

Still… in the timeline that would unravel I. ST, he would be the elder and Picard yet to be born.

[@Dalicaruncho]

@@ryanaiden My brain hurts now…

[@Jezee213]

It's people like this that will move our world forward. I love this story.

[@Piddlefoots]

People like that just sap funding from much better science projects....... We need a sun, 10 times bigger than ours in a very small bottle to even come close to the energy levels needed to curve space-time fabric, THIS is what these dreamers ignore and fail to mention....... E=Mc² tells us there is absolutely no way around this energy density problem.....So they toss things like exotic matter and negative energy around, as a way to fool people.......

[@Piddlefoots]

No they wont, they will do only ONE thing, drain your tax system of Billions for ZERO result, wake up, 50 years havent even been back to moon, you folks are just tripping to fall for this fantasy, get grounded in real science, not what BS theorists say, they dont do the experiments, go ask a CERN scientist about this, they will LAUGH at you and palm it off, yea theory doesnt always mean we can do it, will be there reply, there is a reason I know this......

[@Piddlefoots]

Its people like this that will send our society broke, for nothing at all..... Wake up and get grounded in REAL SCIENCE, not this fantasy........

[@oberguga]

Crystal don't get mass when it expands and don't lose any mass, when it shrinks. Such mechanism already tested in space (But they probably shouldn't). Force produced by such "thrusters" is result of uncounted friction in system, in the vacuum of deep space it stop producing any force. Its already tested multiple times. Btw If it work it should work in microscale too, so MEMS is a perfect technology for magical arrays of "thrusters". Also in such form-factor it should be easier to isolate most parasitic forces and keep them inside a chip, so testing will be more precise. Also different thrusters in the Array on chip may be arranged in a way that system will provide continuous force (decouple individual thrusters with some kind of springs and dampeners, so vibrations will be filtered and any constant force should remain. that alone will reduce vibrations, but if nearby "thruster" assemblies will vibrate with phase shift, say 120°, it should completely cancel out vibrations (without decoupling it may cancel useful force as well), so you get hard-to-refute results). I don't believe that it work, but if chip would generate some measurable constant force in vacuum chamber, I'm probably would had change my mind.

[@smking100]

The university moved Jim to a quiet corner rather than fire him, just in case his idea has merit. I mean, he got a small grant from NASA, and money is money.

[@fancifulfilly]

Only he squandered most of his NIAC grant for that last project on new toys for his lab. There was a pittance left over to pay his "research team". Of course that panned out zero. I think this latest project he and Heidi are working on is new. I wonder if NASA would pony up again. If this Mach effect engine has a chance of happening, they need a team of engineers, not physicists. This is not really their field of expertise.

[@scubaguy007]

It’s funny how education administrations respond to money.

[@westnblu]

@@fancifulfilly I beg to differ. Physics is the driver of major engineering feats. Just sayin

[@daos3300]

@@fancifulfilly they need to prove the theory first which certainly is a job for theoretical physicists. if they manage that they'll have an endless supply of engineers.

[@daniellynn3240]

I love that even though he might not be around he's still trying to help out Humanity

[@invertedxtrovert]

That’s how you get a wing of a University named after you.

[@DJShadesUK]

Someone else posted this ancient Greek proverb, but its too apt not to repeat: "society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit"

[@mrbacchus6127]

For a scientist like him there would be no greater lifetime achievement.

[@bluementor6466]

I thank Bloomberg and this Man for all of their hard work. Thank you.

[@RickMyBalls]

Capitalised man

[@Ghost-wn9cf]

I have a feeling our understanding of the laws of physics is a huge approximation and many rules are not as written in stone as we assume. Scientists need to be bold and think of the impossible instead of falling into dogma. The threat of ridicule needs to be lowered. Same as when anyone suggests extraterrestrial origin. Every possibility should be investigated, instead of treating people who put forward such theories as lunatics. Most meaningful progress was made by people who ignored the naysayers telling them its impossible. Even if it turns out to be a "failure" just the fact that they tried is success.

[@Ghost-wn9cf]

I really hope we are wrong about the speed of light being the limit. The future would be so much interesting if it was not. Maybe even time dilation could be avoided... One can hope.

[@jaredwsavage]

"Guys, we were wrong. We made a bad assumption based on sketchy data and wasted a lot of your money. We're sorry. " - No politician in human history

[@Durzo1259]

Kinda like the over $2 trillion and thousands of lives America spent on Afghanistan, now right back where it started.

[@seamon9732]

@@Durzo1259 Partially true, it was a BIG SUCCESS for the military industrial complex's corporate welfare scam.

[@giin97]

@@seamon9732 hey, at least they employed a lot of people in the meantime ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@5226-p1e]

Yeah most politicians would rather use the excuse of. I have investigated myself and found no wrongdoing.

[@jaredwsavage]

@@5226-p1e That is genuinely the case here in Ireland!

[@welinder01]

I remember about a decade ago when Jim Woodward was trying to raise $60k to further refine the Mach drive concept. The same year Kim Kardashian earned $50 million. Everything wrong with our species in one single observation.

[@wambamit344]

Lol

[@MrJdsenior]

@MirroredVoid Not really, I think you misunderstand human nature 101. Moving people somewhere else will only move wars somewhere else.

[@Larsonaut]

Wow I love this younger guy. Open minded, positive and scientific. Traits you don’t see often in academics or ‚scientist‘

[@volatilesky]

Out always amazes me when scientists and reporters act as if all science is fully settled. It comes across as the old Victorian proclamations that we already knew everything there was to know, about everything back in the 1800s. I remember when the argument over plate tectonics was still ongoing, and that or solar system was the only one with orbiting planets. The list of things discovered just in my lifetime is near endless, of things that we "knew" only for those known things to be quickly done away with as antiquated notions.

[@brandonsmith3060]

Either way, this work will prove a path is viable or not…That is valuable to science.

[@dbmail545]

As "science" beclowns itself over Climate Change and the plan-demic, this kind of flat earth type BS is taken seriously by more people every day.

[@brandonsmith3060]

@@dbmail545 so what do you do to make a difference for the future? Are you out contributing to make change or keep it the same and hide away in a bunker naysaying others sacrifice?

[@brandonsmith3060]

@Peter Evans the links to the research is in the description…Didn’t notice braces, but I’m sure a dentist can solve it. Still any person out there working to push science is a value to it…Especially when it comes to humanity expanding into space.

[@brandonsmith3060]

@Peter Evans it’s pretty impressive they made it to phase II thus far in an Innovative Advanced Concepts for NASA…How far has your R&D made it?

[@JNCressey]

@Peter Evans, "No mention of where this energy is coming from to power the crystal". They did mention where the energy comes from to power the crystal. At 9:20 they say a nuclear battery would be used to power them.

[@chrisose]

Discoveries are not made by those following the consensus. I hope that Woodward is shown to be correct and that he gets to see the fruits of his lifetime of work.

[@MikeTrieu]

Uh, all science must be repeatable to be useful. That is the very definition of consensus. If you just hide your discovery in a cave and take that knowledge with you to your grave, how have you actually advanced humanity?

[@It-b-Blair]

@@MikeTrieu exactly…

[@bobdobsin6216]

@@MikeTrieu That's not what he said. He said "following the consensus." If you don't test or interrogate strange ideas off the beaten path, you're less likely to encounter data which falsifies existing ideas - which is all the scientific method is capable of. You're also less likely to encounter strange phenomena worth exploring. Besides the physical realities of treading the same experimental ground (or at least not deviating from its assumptions), there's the social component. Scientific institutions are just as often tied to academic politics and convention. Scientists are not saints, either, but apes like the rest of us. They are tied to tribe and resources (funding). New ideas don't just dethrone old ones - often, they dethrone the people who hold them. Many breakthroughs in physics were enormously controversial in their day, and they only survived the gauntlet of intense scrutiny because they held up to testing. It's an uphill battle. Laymen have a much more idealized image of the scientific establishment - ask any working scientist, and they can tell you how full of backbiting it is and how easily peer review is weaponized. Lots of great discoveries have been made because people challenged assumptions and devised novel tests that would falsify long held principles. In other cases, they looked at old problems with fresh eyes and that unique spark of creative genius. Newton and Einstein come to mind. We made incremental steps after Newton, and after Einstein, but their different perspectives gave us progress that was much more than incremental. Those were fundamental transformations in how we saw the world.

[@earthknight60]

What gets my respect is not his dedication, but the fact that he can admit that he may be wrong even after making a vast investment in time and resources into the idea. Any cook can be dedicated over the long term, but kooks generally don't have the self awareness and humility to admit that they may be wrong despite their convictions. This fellow understands that his idea may be wrong, but that's not going to stop him from trying to work out the details and actually coming to an answer rather than just sticking with an assumption.

[@johnlshilling1446]

I'd be pleased beyond my ability to express if this works out. However, I too am old. I'll probably never know. Still, that's no reason to stop.

[@chrisharten1308]

I think that sci-fi and real science go hand in hand. Sci-fi is the motivation behind most scientific innovation. The dreamers give ideas to the practical minds. Without one there cannot be the other. Balance.

[@Piddlefoots]

Really, where are our HOVER BOARDS then mate ?

[@Piddlefoots]

Why cant we go back in time ?

[@Piddlefoots]

When will people start to get super powers like, lol, Superman...... ?

[@christopherjc54]

@@Piddlefoots Maybe we don't have that yet, but One Wheels are now a thing :D

[@Piddlefoots]

@@christopherjc54 Unicycles have been around for ages, only the electric ones are new ! Not all sci fi will become real tech. They are not two sides of the same coin....

[@tessiepinkman]

Wow, just wow. These people are amazing. Thank you Bloomberg for interviewing these fantastic scientists. Real inspirational people!

[@Gruntbaseball]

"Life's work" one of the best statements to hear... everyone needs that dedication to one thing they love and the world would be awesome.. if only

[@MyrKnof]

problem is funding it for most people.

[@Gruntbaseball]

@@MyrKnof dont I know it lol.. been funding my business for 1 year not exactly millions lol but doing it alone is still not cheap.. but i love it

[@0neBadMonkey]

Please plan a follow up video to this.

[@johndewey6358]

Think about all that we have accomplished since the first Steam Engine. I say we have not looked hard enough to find that Pink Elephant. Thank you Professor and all the people who are making big differences in our lives by pushing the boundaries of what may be possible. Never give up, I admire your optimism, tenacity and creativity.

[@DenethorDurrandir]

While this is definitely not a working "engine", the theory will help us learn more about physics when we will find out what caused the behaviour that made it seem as it is valid, and that is valuable and important

[@zdenekburian1366]

This engine will not work, because is based on faulty theory. Mach was an idealist, for him there are innate forces acting in mysterious ways in the universe. Nor mach's innate inertial force, nor einstein's curved space, nor newton classic gravity can explain why earth has a tangential velocity around the sun. Why and how a body can transmit a gravitational force upon another object? From which place does the energy necessary to create all the gravitational forces in the whole universe come? There is a huge hole in all the available theories, so i don't believe in a machine that taps these forces out of thin air without any sound and mechanical explanation.

[@ddegn]

You could look at small robots using a vibrator motor and a toothbrush head to understand how it works.

[@kcopara1]

The pineal gland in the human brain contains crystals called calcite crystals (made up of oxygen, carbon, calcium) that produce a piezoelectric effect and borrow the same energy. Discovered by scientists as far back as 1996. What they need to look into if they dig deeper is the antigravity bubble that forms as a result of the energy produce ie zero point energy & electromagnetic energy. Which they are not aware of. Moreover they don't need to apply electrical current to the crystal. Applying mechanical presure to crystals with piezoelectric properties produces an electrical charge and generate electromagnetic waves... just like the pineal gland.

[@MrJdsenior]

@@zdenekburian1366 Yeah, blah blah blah. I don't know how to break this to you but what you believe means exactly zilch to any of those ideas and statements. Belief is not how the scientific method works. Belief is reserved for 'guys in the sky' and the like, not theories that hold every single time they are utilized or tested, belief is a concept that is beyond useless in science. And BTW, Einsteins relativistic theories have been tested a million ways from Sunday, and are even utilized for everyday devices now, like GPS clock deltas from those on Earth and they've held 100% throughout....so there's that. And you can read EXACTLY why bodies travel around another body in orbit in his published material, if you so choose. And I think you meant "sound mechanical", rather than "sound and mechanical".

[@rastrisfrustreslosgomez544]

@@zdenekburian1366 why earth has a tangential velocity? that's just inertia at action son. The sun's weight way more than earth so it suffers less drag from space-time. The gravitational force is though to be carried by an undiscovered, massive graviton through the Higgs mechanism. The energy to move around stuff in space-time comes from the basal state zeroth-point energy of particles, I believe that's called vaccum energy. There's a huge gap somewhere I'll give you that, but it's certainly not in thermodynamics nor in relativity

[@tonyharford4625]

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. A C Clarke.

[@MrJdsenior]

You do know he writes science FICTION, right? :-/ :-)

[@tonyharford4625]

@@MrJdsenior Three things to consider here. (1) Yes he wrote science fiction (2) He is dead at the moment so doesn't write anything now. (3) Most importantly he invented the communications satellite so was probably quite qualified to comment on things scientific.

[@siegfriedkleinmartins7816]

CORRECTION....Clarke wrote science speculation, because he was a science based writer as Asimov. The actual internet could not exist without the satelite comunication network. And he predicted both. Greetings from Brasil

[@KylieDesire]

Use plasma to see the effect. In Star Trek it is shown how Impulse Drive works. They use Fusion Reactor as source of energy. I study and quantum physics is Newtonian one. Gravity is an Effect in our dimension. Probably "gravitons" using "tachions" hehe ,P

[@Wolf88888]

It's not really an 'impulse engine' per 'Star Trek'; my understanding is that the impulse engines on starships in Star Trek were actually ion engines. This is more of a slow warp drive.

[@JohnDlugosz]

IF the impulse engines used any kind of normal Newtonian reaction, there would not be enough fuel on board as it would necessarily outweigh the ship. In an _early_ novel (1970's) the author explained that it's "I.M. Pulse" which indeed sounds more like this video.

[@Wolf88888]

@@JohnDlugosz I don't claim to know. I've been kind of a 'Trekkie' all my life, and my understanding has always been that the ion impulse engines were for relatively short, low-speed travel within a star system, while the warp engines were for true interstellar travel.

[@alext5497]

There is nothing 'warpy' about this drive.

[@ArchangelChi]

@@JohnDlugosz That's why they were equipped with hydrogen collectors to scoop hydrogen gas from open space to be available for the ion impulse engines and the secondary fusion reactors

[@bernarddouthit4647]

Professor Woodward is a hero in my book. This is terrific! I think he's really on to something, and even if not our world needs more men and women like him - people who aren't afraid of taking risks and defying conventional thinking. I wouldn't be surprised if he is the first person - or the first in a very long time - to be awarded the Nobel prize posthumously.

[@Miked1332]

This is why I believe we take 1% if the US military budget to fund wild ideas like this.

[@cruss4612]

We already spend more than 1% of the defense budget on research. That's only 6 billion. The defense budget isn't even the largest expenditure by the federal government. Health and Human Services spends 51% of the budget by themselves. Maybe we should take 1% of that and reallocate it. That'll be about 14-20 billion.

[@ArchangelChi]

They already spend WAY more than that, at DARPA and a plethora of black budget R&D projects

[@davidowens9597]

Much of the military budget does fund cutting-edge research like this.

[@circlebodo991]

@@davidowens9597 yeah but they wont tell ya. so its useless

[@deerazor8280]

My electric toothbrush doesn't do that, it is a simple electric motor which revolves, that motion ⬆️🔁 is transferred into forward, backward motion ↔️ using a strong rubber gear, I've taken a few of them apart to build something else.

[@josephpugh7047]

Everyday Childhood dreams become closer to reality. Thank you for decades of Clarke's Magic at work.

[@balinetwork]

Very inspiring documentary, Jim Wardwood give the mankind a new hope to travel faster & efficient in the space, so all the scientist around the world will try to find the way to make it happen.. well done bloomberg

[@jessepollard7132]

A very expensive test.

[@PK-tt5kk]

It always inspires me when I see people at his age working in science.

[@odbo_One]

I wish I'm smart as these scientists, I would love to continue their research with them. Time is of the essence here.

[@TalenGryphon]

Video: "It's called the Mega Drive" My brain: S E G A

[@NoSuRReNDeR001]

I was thinking..."The Mega Drive, but Sega couldn't even get past Saturn" lol !

[@guywithknife]

@@NoSuRReNDeR001 hahaha genius

@@NoSuRReNDeR001 but could cast dreams.

[@williambeckham4656]

I have said for the last few decades, that there are really only two major projects in space science that are most important. The first is in astronomy, we need to identify those places we should go to. The second is in propulsion science. We need things that can move us really, really fast in space. This I believe will come from discoveries of new physics. It is also the most difficult because you need open minds and imagination.

[@danielrazulay]

There's a third thing: identifying those things that could destroy us

[@westnblu]

The key word is imagination. Einstein acknowledged it as the true driving force of human endeavor and discovery.

[@ciberiada01]

IMHO, there's a third project: *hyper-communication* ❗ Even when we explore our solar system, the radio waves (speed of light) appears to be too slow, let alone for interstellar travel. So, we need a method of communication, faster than that. Because, as usual, the first ships will be unmanned.

[@williambeckham4656]

@@ciberiada01 I wonder how well quantum entanglement will work?

[@ciberiada01]

@@williambeckham4656 KZbin, where's my reply to William Beckham❓❓❓ I'm sorry, William, somehow my reply was deleted.

[@FutureAIDev2015]

Seems like a real-life Kraken drive (Kerbal Space Program reference)

[@kapytanhook]

Yeah, but this exploit does not work. Their mass fluctuation is not happening

[@rylian21]

@@kapytanhook Right. It's an illusion. While adding a charge adds mass to the crystals, it doesn't add mass to the whole structure it would be attached to and receiving the charge from.

[@kapytanhook]

@@rylian21 yeah, just fooling themselves with density changes, vibration and an inability to face contradiction. 1 person can debunk it in a vacuum chamber with a scale, get real

[@AntneeUK]

Did they... write a potentially groundbreaking paper in comic sans?

[@exnani]

it will be like the EMdrive, they will spend decades of "yes that works" "no that don't work", rather to just test it in space !! a cube sat is not expensive to send in space, much less expansive than the pay of a researcher for a year.

[@Andres186000]

It would be neat for them to test it in a vacuum and point it in both directions to try to see if it works independent of some bias in how the measuring instruments are set up.

[@danisyx5804]

the emdrive doesnt work wither thats why they didn't spend the money to put it in orbit

[@iIiWARHEADiIi]

just put it on the water, 2g is enough to push anything. and control it wirelessly

[@davidowens9597]

@@iIiWARHEADiIi I also thought about putting it on a sheet of ice. Very little friction so you'd see almost any push it generates.

[@eventhisidistaken]

Suppose you launched one and it works...would the research stop? Suppose you launch one and it doesn't work, would the research stop? Neither of those outcomes would cause research to stop, so there is no savings from launching while it's still half baked.

[@aarshpatel2000]

These scientists were always my favorite professors

[@koushikdhulipala9786]

i heard of this drive a couple years ago and thought it was bs. now that i’m seeing this actually work on a small scale, this might actually be better than a nuclear powered or chemical powered rocket. i hope there’s more funding for this so we can actually explore whether it’s reliable enough for future space exploration.

[@jessepollard7132]

reliability isn't the question. whether the concept even works and then why it works are the questions.

[@blueplanetoff]

Amazing work, you all who are working on this project, have my respect. I take my hat off to you. I can't wait to the results of the Cubesat test, cuz if it will be working, we are on our way to stars.

[@survivalinthezombieapocaly2142]

Sure. It's really super cool! Maybe, maybe.

[@tariq3erwa]

1:55 "an object at rest stays at rest" Time Crystals oscillating : hold my equilibrium

[@chrisbraid2907]

At rest relative to what ?

[@tariq3erwa]

As far as I know, in Newtonian Mechanics and Galilean Relativity at rest means in an " inertial frame of reference"

[@40watt53]

Kyle Hill fan?

[@enterprise59]

NEVER apologize for trying something you're passionate about, and failing. Failure, is the best teacher.

[@TheRootedWord]

Failure is still failure and not all failures are equal. Most of them have no lesson in them. It is the rare failure that contains that diamond of learning. So stop with the glorifying of failing! This produces a nation of losers!

[@ReiseLukas]

@@TheRootedWord losers are people who don't even try or give up too quickly

[@yaps02]

The mega drive could be the genesis of a master system that could take us to Saturn, which was previously just a stuff we cast in dreams.

[@saeedadam8397]

Bravo Sir, bravo!

[@moduleheadindependentcreat8158]

Hehe

[@SpeakHearSeeNoEvil]

Love it :)

[@cedriceric9730]

Yes , its needing of no fuel mass will defeat the rocket equation tyrant

[@Curious_Citizen0]

These guys are pushing boundries of engineering!! Salute !

[@TheNefastor]

Here's the thing : we _want_ to believe it's possible to travel to distant starts, but the universe is under no obligation to allow it. There is always the possibility that interstellar travel is in fact impossible (at practical speeds). That's what bums me out the most. On the other hand, it also means we can never be invaded by space aliens...

[@incription]

well, not really. What is a practical speed? You get a fusion drive with some insanely efficient ion thruster and accelerate to close the speed of light, time dilation starts taking effect and your relative speed has now increased beyond the speed of light - you can go anywhere in the universe in a second if you are fast enough, but you dont have to break the laws of physics. And aliens could totally invade us, maybe they started a million years ago

[@dschledermann]

Yes, we definitely have to be most sceptical about the things we want to be true. Interstellar travel will never be a thing. At least not in the way it's portrayed in scifi. I find it plausible that civilisation (provided we don't exterminate ourselves within the next couple of centuries) eventually reach other stars and spread through the galaxy, but it will be a slow one way ticket.

[@TexanUSMC8089]

@@incription There was a time when scientists said it was impossible to go faster than the speed of sound. A hundred years ago my Iphone would have been beyond comprehension. I admire people that aren't satisfied with the status quo.

[@deusexaethera]

Interstellar travel is entirely feasible with current technology. The PROBLEM is that humans don't live long enough and also get bored too easily. We evolved on a ball of poop-covered-rock that a person could walk around at least once in their lifetime if they were well prepared and very dedicated, but that ball of poop-covered-rock is infinitesimally small compared to the universe, and our biology and psychology have not evolved any means of coping with it. Here's a fun fact: If Proxima Centauri were as close as the Moon is, the Moon would have to be 11.6 feet away -- close enough for you to bump your head on it if you climbed a ladder. That's how big the universe is.

[@missingno2401]

@@deusexaethera if proxima centauri was as close as the moon is a lot of people would die

[@wascadoo8946]

True pioneers, I wish them luck in this life long journey.

[@brettcooper3893]

This is where we need to be focused. We know that attaining the speed of light is impossible with current technology, but we can try and go as fast as possible towards the speed of light as our current technology will allow. That's way more realistic and it almost seems like a necessary step towards warp drive.

[@theonefreeman5451]

I remember the following quote from StarTrek. "Everything is impossible, until it is not." We need to stop wasting fossil fuels, heating our planet even faster, just to get off of it. Billionaires don't care, though... in fact, they probably want to make Earth as uninhabitable as they can before they succeed in leaving.

[@kerryburns6041]

I think that recognising "location" as an essential property of any physical object will lead the way to instantaneous translocation. It´s not about going faster, intergalactic distances preclude travel as we understand it.

[@lucidx2]

problem is as you get closer to the speed of light the mass of the object becomes almost infinite so requires also infinte amounts of force/energy to keep it moving our only hope us some sort of spacetime drive that doesn't move us along using energy as we know it but bending and warping space time which I'm sure is also a form.of energy but we haven't discovered or figured that out yet

[@9SMTM6]

@@theonefreeman5451 Yeah sorry to burst your bubble, but the reason scientists get paid is to make discoveries, and just ignoring the basic laws of physics for no reason than belief isn't likely to lead to new discoveries. Yeah, EVERYONE would love to reduce emissions, but backing meritless pseudoscience that promises the blue from the sky isn't going to get you there. The sentence, everything is impossible, until it isn't, carries a true sentiment, but that doesn't get you towards the part where you make the impossible possible.

[@ahmedsyed3001]

Actually if you're travelling at half the speed of light, you will cover 1 light year not in 2 years, but maybe a couple of months. The reason for that is because distance in front of you will also contract. So we don't need a warp drive to go "faster than the speed of light". If you were travelling at 90% the speed of light, you could cover hundreds of lightyears in maybe 30 years only.

[@TheNewPhysics]

People don't discuss Mach's Principle because observations have proved it wrong. LIGO observations showed that gravity and light travel at the same speed. Hence, there is no non-local interaction (a body with the whole universe instantaneously).