Musha Jump Drive

[@DragNetJoe]

I put one of these together in my garage last week, but when I plugged it in it wasn't there anymore. If anyone sees it, give me a call.

[@OverloadOV]

uuuuum... i think i found it, i spotted it yesterday on google earth mars where one black n white stripe picture gots replaced. you can thank me later but just dont leave it there for 5 years, until the first ppl go to mars and they think its alien tech

[@garyschraa7947]

my mom bought it at a yard sale , but then my sister took it apart and scraped all the copper for a 30 pak of bud . wasted effort though , the raiders lost to the Denver rump riders

[@wncmartin]

I can just hear the conspiracy theories they will come up with when they discover the Radio Shack Logo on most of the electronics in it. They will be saying stuff like, "Radio Shack was a front for the UFO industries."

[@timweatherill3738]

Made me laugh. Thanks!

[@asteronx]

Make sure to bolt it down next time ;)

[@moonsorrow77]

I wish this technology really exists now in our lifetime..I wanna see it and I wanna travel to another galaxy or planets with just a jump..

[@richardsleep2045]

Who knows it might even be the reason for many reliable ufo reports (from airline pilots, military etc). But you'd probably need to see this for yourself as it's otherwise kind of incredible.

[@d.swanson4872]

No

[@nil981]

I'd probably board my ship and jump to another galaxy, colonize it and then fortify it like an impregnable fortress against anyone who would wish to take what is mine!

[@endrioinfiniti]

Gangsta till u get into an orbit of a black hole

[@TheRainbowKiss]

Patrick Milewski FOR HUMANITY

[@linz8291]

I also wish you -AsteronX can use this tech in spacecraft to achieve FTL to explore Local groups, and agreed with your words, quote, "A lot can happen in 60 years..."!

[@cmdrvaneia1498]

Thank you for these videos Even if these drives (Alcubierre or Musha or otherwise) are proven wrong, these videos you’ve made have given me quite a bit of hope for the future :)

[@MrKerr808]

I believe we have a kind of warp drive that wraps our crafts with some kind of energy bubble that keeps the subjects still.. while outside time moves

[@asteronx]

Thank you, it is important to look on the world pragmatically yet work toward a better future. Continually experimenting, poking at new or mysterious phenomena, proposing concepts that may be proven wrong, this is how science - humanity - advances.

[@jameshumphrey9939]

....if you are invested in that - hope fr the future of human beings - its just a pastime for humans nothing important.....really

[@bryanl1984]

@neil U If you're interested in antimatter or even conventional fusion & fission, you should check out Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - they allow you to shrink track sizes by 2 orders of magnitude. So a 1km accelerator track is equivalent to something that can fit on a bench. Makes Amat a hell of a lot more practical, also inertial confinement fusion or even muon catalyzed fusion. Still, it takes a lot of power to make Amat. You can probably catalyze fusion w/ it but unless you get better than 50% total efficiency on the energy collection of the whole system, it's probably just a really dense and dangerous battery. We have the tech, right now, to make Fission Fragment or Gas Core Fission Fragment engines which have absurdly good performance characteristics since they shoot off heavy fission products at near C. Think of an Ion Drive that puts out thrust in KN-GN range w/ a very high upper speed bound.... Yeah. That could get us to another star a lot more practically than an Orion.

[@LolanBadeauxMakes]

Lmao No no Worst idea ever. Can only be done on a scale and from affect that are not only not proven but considered by most in the field to be a joke. Like free energy, and just like all theorists they are looking for free money...

[@nickwalker4936]

When I started worldbuilding for a story called “Quantum Rising,” which involved the quantum tunneling effect for FTL, thought I was making everything up. I saw it as entirely fictional technology. But as it turns out, the folks at AsteronX did some searching and found that I wasn’t the only one- and it seems this other person was a scientist who’d done research on the whole thing in surprising detail. Thanks for pointing me in a new direction, guys. God bless Takaaki Musha.

[@asteronx]

No problem! This is one of the reasons why we make these videos :)

[@michaelmartin9022]

In my own sci-fi setting I want to rip of-, I mean, be inspired by Star Trek and have humans making an Alcubierre drive and exploring a star system nearby, which it still takes a week to get to, then they meet aliens who have perfected this drive. Only it seems that this drive is actually TOO GOOD for my planned far-future setting and the sort of distances I'd like the story to traverse in hours might actually take only seconds "in real life". Actually it would be kind of hilarious if people in the far future look back on Star Trek as "primitive" because "they actually thought we'd have whole conversations while travelling between systems!"

[@Joshua_N-A]

@@michaelmartin9022 do research crucial for writing stories with these elements?

[@Stalinsmustache]

I am making a stellaris esque game where there are both Jump and warp drives.

[@carlosandleon]

"far more impressive than any catapult" a trebuchet then

[@asteronx]

A trebuchet is a type of catapult, so... No, still nowhere near as impressive :)

[@timweatherill3738]

Yeah, yeah, be didactic. (smiles) You can't beat a trebuchet for sheer, elegant whomping intensity, though.

[@stevejordan7275]

Bigger than a catapult...you'd need to build a DOGapult! (HeeHeeHeeSnort)

[@LarryH54]

How about a watermelon seed? ;)

[@123WelshDan321]

Catapults are far superior to trebuchets. I have never seen anything to prove otherwise.

[@valla.6765]

Your video has inspired my grandson to take science in college. Thank you

[@craigvaughn]

Instead of trying to build it as a propulsion system in every spacecraft, set up a "Jump Bridge" pointing to the destination. When you do this you are not limited to size limitations. The Bridge or Gate has it's own power source, calculates the mass of the item (ship) that it is sending and it appears on the other end. A Gate on each end and you can send things both ways. Only exploration ships would need this drive.

[@asteronx]

A very good idea! Perhaps one day ;)

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

Almost like a relay, a "Mass Relay" if you will...

[@ericgolightly8450]

Sort of like a Kraskinov Tube

[@ARandomCogboi]

I personally hope that this is true! The one thing I want before I eventually die is to see another world with my own eyes. Even if that never happens, the hope that it will is more than enough to keep me going. But hey, at least I’ve got about 60 years before it’s too late.

[@asteronx]

A lot can happen in 60 years... 60 years ago spaceflight was just beginning, and we have advanced exponentially in many fields since then. The next several decades ought to prove very interesting indeed.

[@osvaldofranco9036]

@@asteronx the Department of Defense keeps releasing new and better video and now they're saying thay have physical evidence ( lots). and a more is coming in the next few months to a year (you'll see) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3rLmJyIfpxgmck and kzbin.info/www/bejne/nobVkId8btRqqbs what do you think of this ?...

[@X-boomer]

osvaldo franco you are confused. Ordinary people might get jobs in space within the next half century or so and that might include construction or mining on the moon or scientific/exploratory work on Mars,, but no human will be setting off on any interstellar journeys with the next century at the very least. You have to walk before you can run, but (1) we haven't even figured out how to me astronauts alive in deep space for six months and (2) we don't have even the beginning of a propulsion technology that could cover interstellar distances in any reasonable Earthbound timeframe.

[@Arachnoscribe]

Our progeny (manufactured beings with expandable memory) are more suitable for long-distance space exploration.

[@flippdoubt8057]

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[@cct2859]

Not only are your videos interesting captivating enough but that when trying to fall asleep the mind is captivated to the point that you're not stressing on stuff that's keeping you awake and so you fall asleep not to be confused with boring videos those will not help you fall asleep if your stressed.

[@Simmlex]

Hard to understand what you are saying sometimes, the music is too loud.

[@philippemaria8678]

Music too loud, voice too low, and no care of prononciation : hard to understand specially for non natives...

[@Mrcheekymonkeyisback]

Aww thanks for the shout out my dude! I really enjoyed this video!! I personally believe if we manage to get the fusion reactor to work (small scale fusion reactors already proven to work) just we need it on a larger scale, if we manage to get it to work we could apply that to our starships!

[@esoxkid06]

They've gone to plaid!!

[@burper-oe6tm]

That’s ludicrous!!

[@thefirstsin]

@@burper-oe6tm dayummm son that's sum speed....

[@nil981]

Okay, seems legitimate. So, here's what I get from this: the musha jump drive works by inducing tachyonic effects in space-time around the ship to make the ships mass negative and then uses its reaction drives to boost it past the light speed barrier to achieve absurdly high acceleration with little energy. Okay, now I have three questions. 1. How does one go about navigating a ship at faster-than-light speeds? In space everything is moving, so you would need computers running at insanely high speeds to account for every change in the motion of your destination for every small period of time. Would an ftl jump have to be planned out beforehand so you don't fly blind? Or is there a way to actively steer your ship at faster than light speeds? That also raises the question of tracking faster than light ships in real-time as they approach a space port or planet. 2. Is it possible for an advanced civilization to use more than one type of ftl drive? In the dune series, the holtzmann drive is the most common type of drive but many smaller individual starships retain their slower ftl warp drives for emergency use. All the drives that you've discussed from froning's, to alcubierre's, and even Musha's all have limiting factors. Namely mass-energy needs that affect their range. 3. For longer-distance space travel to other galaxies in the laniakea (probably misspelled that) supercluster, and beyond we would need wormholes/stargates if you will, to create and project wormholes across vast distances using fairly little negative mass/energy. Wormholes are far more efficient because the larger they are, the less negative energy/mass is needed to keep them open. A wormhole network doesn't require you to keep on creating and expending insane mass energies to jump past the speed of light. Because of their relatively low negative energy requirements, wormholes could last a very, very long time and you only need to make that initial investment of negative mass/energy to create them.

[@freedomloverusa3030]

Great questions, engineering challenges to overcome...

[@bryanl1984]

I think you misunderstand how this drive is supposed to work. With warp drives, you travel FTL globally but sub-Ftl localy... You're sort of taking a shortcut by using massive amounts of energy to shrink space in front of you. With a jump drive, you disappear in one location and appear in another, you aren't really traveling; more like a stone skipping across a pond. Except the stone is a ship and the pond is reality. The best way of modeling this is like a decaying tachyon - the amount of energy and your starting vector will cause you to travel a set amount of time and distance, then you reappear when the precalculated energy is spent at your destination. This is like the way an unstable particle can be made arbritarily long lived by accelerating it to a specific relativisric speed, like a hypothetical muon cannon. As for energy, the whole point of the drive is to lower energy requirements vs warp drives. The best theoretical work on wormholes seems to show that you need to take a special time-like tragectory across the caustic, essentially like trying to thread the eye of a naked singularity. That means that from a global perspective, you go FTL but, locally the trip could take longer than a conventional trip. If you have cryonics or want to do bulk material transport w/ non-FTL ships, this may not be a problem, same as a laser communication system but, for awake passengers, there isn't much benefit.

[@bryanl1984]

Just to expand on why wormholes are a problem - thetlyre essentially a special type of black hole linked to another black he across space time. While they may be arbitrarily short paths in realsoace, their gravity warps space around them so much that it may take a very long time locally to travel into them. It's a similar effect to how an object will appear to slow down to an observer as it approaches the event horizon. Being in a massive gravity field is almost the same as going relativistic speeds. It warps your light cone dramatically.

[@kallekula1860]

As travel at speed of light or faster isn't possible, why do you nut jobs believe it is? Science fiction is beyond not cool.

[@bryanl1984]

You're an idiot. Currently *proved* GR & QM not only allows for effective "FTL" but _has_ to have at least 3 mechanisms - that we know of. Turning these things into a practical method is not a guarantee but very likely possible. The device you're typing this on most likely makes use of quantum tunneling, depending on chipset type. But hey, microchips are just "fiction."

[@markwilcons6397]

I propose 'Bounce Drive', in which a spacecraft bounces from one celestial body to another by way of Bounce Technology using gigantic springs. Just having a little fun. Don't mind me, if Jump Drive is possible, go for it.

[@jessestuart5756]

What about the Twinkie Drive? Poke threw to the universe's creamy filling and poke out to the other side!

[@SovereignStatesman]

Just don't bounce too close to a supernova up or that'll bring your little trip to an end really fast.

[@quantumquestthebillionaire1527]

Kinda screwed when you come to a gas giant lol??

[@ericgolightly8450]

​@@quantumquestthebillionaire1527 there is still a core inside though

[@IgottwormmS]

This reminds me of a Boyd Bushman interview where he speaks about talking to someone from a different solar system and they mentioned they accelerated near the speed of light then "flipped a switch" and they would enter "no time". And it took them approximately 45 minutes to get to earth.

[@surearrow]

>> You're low volume mumbling mixed with the background music make it hard to understand your words.

[@xcaliburn5684]

coffee needed for sure

[@Truth0700]

lol at the beginning he sounds like he's trying to preach to me enlightenment in some new age cult

[@SmokinQuixote]

Unless we can get Mars to generate its own magnetic field like Earth has. There is no way to terraform it without the sun stripping all that hard work away.

[@asteronx]

Actually, the solar wind will not strip away the atmosphere of a terraformed Mars that quickly.

[@tibetloga]

Plus there is that artificial magnetic field from a satellite that NASA is working on. phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmosphere.html

[@washingtonwebfoot9908]

Well, nobody is "working" on it right now. It's just an interesting idea at this point.

[@carlosandleon]

what if we get mars and push it somewhere else! (venus orbit) let them make love and make a new planet

[@jackfrosty24]

mmmm..... if mars had its own gravity like earth it would in time pull out of orbit and go rouge since all the planets have there own to keep all in balance.....so to keep mars where it is... use a heavy big machine built into the north and south pole of mars to fire a beam of lets say a artificial shield like earths then.... artificial clouds just like they do on earth this day and age to make a bit more breathing air as you don't want to give mars too much of what earth got or mars would pull in things that you dont want it to :)

[@deusexaethera]

Using quantum physics to give a spacecraft negative mass-energy so it accelerates as its kinetic energy is drained sounds great, until you remember that the crew would be similarly affected. I dunno about you, but I don't want my blood to be violently ejected from my body because its kinetic energy dropped in between heartbeats.

[@c-beem248]

Ah, a like-mind, Shawn. I just commented with similar observation!

[@wolfson109]

But the walls of your blood vessels would also have negative mass. So as your blood pushes against them, they would push back.

[@deusexaethera]

@@wolfson109: Possibly. I can't math hard enough right now to say for sure if that would actually happen, and whether the net effect would be non-catastrophic. I'll think about it more when I'm not writing code.

[@Constantinesis]

I am sure that in its early versions the warp drive will cause side effects to the passengers like headaches and dizziness.

[@thegamecrasherthemastergam8485]

And I don't see the point of making a FTL drive that can only be used by Uploaded minds and AIs

[@ericdary8421]

I’m a quantum physics geek so I enjoyed the video. Thanks!

[@BrokenLifeCycle]

When you were talking about changing mass to achieve ftl, I thought about the Mass Effect games.

[@thenamedguy998]

Same

[@gonzalomorenoandonaegui2052]

Thank you, this is a fascinating topic, there is great value in this channel, it's truly unique in youtube, I hope you make a 2nd part of the Musha Drive, exellent work !!

[@scienceofficer6291]

Do you think it is feasible to make this technology by the 2050-80's? If so that would be cool

[@asteronx]

Yes, by 2070-2080 we should have functioning Jump Drives.

[@killerpanda7405]

@@asteronx what do you base that off of?

[@feynstein1004]

I didn't know such a concept even existed. Kudos to the channel.

[@Shortsircut1]

Same here, I have not heard of this until now. Thanks AsteronX for posting.

[@asteronx]

Much obliged, glad you enjoyed it.

[@nicosmind3]

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is way simpler than a warp drive? It too needs negative energy, but the energy levels needed to power it are way more. If I understand correctly

[@asteronx]

The Musha jump drive would not would not require nearly as much energy for shorter distances. For comparison, the Alcubierre drive requires, at best, the mass-energy of the voyager spacecraft for a short flight to Alpha Centauri. Flying to the other side of the galaxy with an Alcubierre drive would likely require a planet or so worth's of mass-energy, whilst the Musha jump drive, for the same energy, can jump between galaxies.

[@nicosmind3]

@@asteronx my god that's a massive difference!!! Seen a video from PBS Space Time (I think that channel) on all the different ways to reduce the energy needs to that Voyager size mass, and there's a lot of steps. Some unrealistic if I remember correctly. Thanks for the vid, I've shared it with friends :)

[@asteronx]

It is indeed a massive difference :)

[@johncollado1151]

Good video... the violent acceleration reminds me of an old sci-fi movie, "Forbidden Planet". As they are about to jump out of their faster than light speed travel in the beginning of the movie, the occupants have to stand on some kind of pad that induces a beam to hold them in place. One of the actors briefly mentions that they don't want to be outside of that beam when the jump engages as they would be bouncing all over the ship. This concept was even back in the fifties. Amazing how some movies show us a glimpse of what can be in our future. Thanks for an interesting look at space travel, you now have a new subscriber.

[@deusexaethera]

Jump drives can't work because the energy used to collapse the space in front of you would still be limited to traveling at the speed of light. So the ship might be able to jump 1000 light years instantly, but it would be sitting around for 1000 years waiting for the jump to begin.

[@noneurbisness6521]

So basically if you try really hard to break the light speed limit you can?

[@asteronx]

Well, that is an extremely basic way of putting :)

[@andrewmount5809]

Well made Video (as Usual) I would love to hear your opinion on other methods to generate the astronomical amounts of energy needed for these ftl systems. In case fusion doesn't pan out

[@asteronx]

Given the recent developments in fusion, it appears very likely that it will pan out, especially considering that the sun is after all, a fusion reactor. There is also antimatter, though it must be generated and stored, or perhaps only generated on the fly to catalyze fusion.

[@williamreich5402]

If you paid attention to the video reducing the mass of an object(spacecraft) reduces amount of energy required

[@johnchalinder6682]

An understanding of Tesla and Keely gives you all the technology you need for a working star drive. With Quantum Physics, you then realize you don't need to GO there... you simply BE there.

[@The_0nly_N0VA]

Couldn't the shielding provided by the Alcubierre-Fronning Drive allow the (musha)craft to reduce its mass so as to reduce the acceleration required? Yes i understand that having the A-F drive would render the requirement of a musha jump drive redundant....or would it? - why not utilize a combination of both drives as it seems that their technologies directly compliment one another.

[@ericgolightly8450]

I guess

[@gaius_enceladus]

I've invented the "lefty drive". Strap a left-winger (facing backwards) to the back of your starship and the amount and velocity of hot air emitted means that you'll arrive at the Andromeda Galaxy in about a nanosecond.

[@sumgue4964]

j4d3 goat maybe strap them backwards instead and since they are so full of shit they will launch us into the stars.. 😍

[@Connie.999]

@@sumgue4964 say what you want about left wingers but they arent posting borderline hateful comments on a purely scientific and educational channel.

[@Swi55Milk]

Love the format, you did a great job. If you need any combustion/fluid dynamics/aerospace engineering/laser literacy for a future video let me know would be glad to assist.

[@harikrishnanks9366]

Hey Todd now I think you are okay Awesome video now you are on track When will the video about the future and from the earth to beyand speed of light part 2 release

[@asteronx]

We're glad you liked the video :) We never intended for there to be a second part to From the Earth to Beyond the Speed of Light, however, this video can be seen as effectively serving that as the second part, as it answers the questions posed and elaborates on the drive itself. Todd is more-or-less better now, still some twinges from his gum, but much better.

[@harikrishnanks9366]

@@asteronx thanks for your information Glad to hear the sound of Todd Get well soon

[@j.heseklon5168]

The Musha jump drive is better than the warp drive. If feasible, when do you think we will have them?

[@northernskies86]

I would agree, but whether or not the jump drive works is questionable. First off, it could only work if tachyonic particles exist, which many physicists doubt their existence due to violations of causality. Second, the claim that one can reduce the craft's mass by dampening zero point fluctuations is questionable. Third, an acceleration of 10^60 m/s^2 would literally break the current laws of physics. If the hypothesis of Unruh radiation is correct, the Unruh temperature would be above the Planck energy, which past this point the laws of physics break down, so such an acceleration may not even be possible (even if it was, you and the ship would instantly vaporize by the intense Unruh radiation, and if Unruh radiation doesn't exist, nothing could survive such an acceleration) However, the Alcubierre metric has been shown to be a valid solution to Einstein's field equations, but would require negative energy density, which we aren't sure exists. In my opinion, the Alcubierre drive is probably the most likely means of FTL travel in the distant future, because it has far less physics hurdles than the jump drive.

[@VerisimilitudeDude]

My like made it 69 likes. Just thought id say that. Awesome video. Thanks so much for your research and explanation. It makes space exploration a feasible and real thing. Exciting to say the least.

[@thegamecrasherthemastergam8485]

I hate you, but also love you for saying that. Lol.

[@benjaminconnor6640]

My only question is , where do you get the Ultra Intense LASER's and how do you arrange them to produce this effect in equal part's around the ship?

[@asteronx]

That would be the primary hurdle to overcome.

[@gunslinger434]

Wonderful presentation. You make the mind boggling ideas/theories easily understandable.

[@asteronx]

Thank you! This is our goal, we're glad to see that we are succeeding.

[@donpiepgrass7020]

I have now listened to several videos and have noted that you often mention changes to the speed of light in a localized area (next to the spacecraft). I agree that the speed of light is not fixed but is instead related to the local gravity flux, only I can not define exactly what that is. I also propose that the speed of light is dependant upon the 'density of the medium through which it travels, which according to your broadcasts is very dense energy - wise. It has always bothered me (since I realized the contradiction which wasn't until after graduating university as an engineer) between the teacher in high school telling us about E=MCsquarred and C=300 K /sec, a constant and then the next year telling us about black holes that had gravity so great that light couldn't leave them, meaning that C is not a constant after all. It then seems a simple jump to conclude as you say that C is not a constant. One should be able to reverse the conditions of a black hole (no gravitational effect vs near infinate gravity) then the speed of light should go to near infinity. Presumably generating a field around the ship that the ship would transverse superluminally would also reduce the mass of the ship (presuming E=MS squared still applies) and create such a concentrated and fast-moving tunnel that it would act as a shield to divert or vaporize any small objects encountered or would deflect objects (and proportionally deflect the path of the ship) if the object was large. A rare perfect head-on collision would presumably cause a very energetic event. As I envision it the field would require a great deal of energy but well within the capabilities of the ship's fission (Heavy hydrogen to Helium plasma) drive and would also require the ship to attain a measurable fraction of light speed before creating the drive tunnel, a minimum of 0.5% or greater and the greater the initial speed the faster the ultimate speed. The required propagation of the tunnel the ship creates would compress the free space energy as it gets it out of the way of the ship so the ship can travel superluminally. I am not enough of a mathematician to propose a mathematical proof for this approach but it seems much simpler than most of those you site, and if simpler then probably much easier to disprove or develop a possible proof for. Perhaps you know a mathematician that would be interested in examining this approach? I would be glad to describe the approach I am using in the SF books I am writing, in additional detail. Detail that has been/will be greatly enhanced by listening to your channel. Don Piepgrass abd PhD civil engimeerimg [phone]

[@rodneycarpluk8052]

This is an important topic, that will make actual space travel doable. However there are details that become of concern if an engine like that can be made. Will routes have to avoid planets and possible smaller space objects when traveling that fast?

[@asteronx]

The Musha jump drive does not actually "exist" so to speak in the intervening space, so a ship equipped with it will not need to avoid anything during FTL jumps.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

They'll need to avoid appearing inside of or close to large celestial bodies when coming out of the jump though! Which means they'll still need conventional engines to get from the "safe jump zone" to the actual destination in my mind.

[@pluto3905]

This video was very intresting to say the least, It felt different from the others however.

[@pitchforksarecoming]

Yeah seeing that distances make up the biggest variable it would probably be simpler to jump between dimensions as tachyon energy does hopping in and out of (our) reality.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

It's the only way to also avoid the time dialtion problems that could seriously thrown a wrench into more traditional high speed travel in our own frame of reference. That could be seriously messed up.

[@gerardanderson9665]

You deserve more subscribers and views!

[@liezelstevens6834]

Excellent content and astounding visuals!

[@ericgolightly8450]

Could you escape a black hole with this? And what would happen to time if you could? If you couldn't, why not? What would happen to time dilation when crossing the lightspeed barrier? There seems to be a lot of things that would change. Also, I love this music. Edit: Now I know it couldn't escape a black hole. It also seems to "skip" the speed of light when tunneling.

[@brandonjimenez902]

Another great 🤣🤣🤣 video thanks for your guys hard work I just wish that in my lifetime (I'm a 90s kid) space travel would be affordable for the blue collar guy to have the experience of space travel would be nice

[@asteronx]

We're glad you enjoyed the video! As to your wish, we'll just have to wait and see, space travel is becoming increasingly less expensive.

[@brandonjimenez902]

@@asteronx 😎😎😎😎

[@deadknight1402]

For a setting I've been developing recently, then in order to bypass the problem of time dilation when going at sublight and superlight speeds, they developed what is in-universe known as a Sublight Anchor. This is supposed to be a piece of tech that causes the flow of time to interact with the ship as though it were still moving through space in the pattern it was going when it activated. Normally it's activated on the surface of a planet, so as to reduce the effects of time dilation. Anything on astro-physicists' part to address the problem?

[@prelude2nsanity]

@2:39, if you'd like to skip to the authors take on "how", not "why".

[@ANOLDMASTERJUKZ]

An interesting thing to note where acceleration and velocity curves are concerned. Physics established 1 Newton = to the force required to accelerate 1 Kilogram to 1 meter per second squared, represented like this 1 ^2 =1 this implies that 1 N of F will accelerate that 1000 grams to one meter pr second and then keep accelerating it exponentially. (ei ) 1 ^ 2 = 10 ^2= 100 ^2 = 10,000 ^ 2 = 100,000,000 ^ 2 = 10,000,000,000,000,000 in the absence of resistance implying that the 1 N is a steady state force and that it is not a limited by a thrust sealing, this very UN intuitive. Considering the other kind of applied force (ie) a 1 N pulse, in the actual world accelerates 1 Kg to only 1 meter pr second and that is it. it goes no faster, until you apply another 1 N pulse. each new pulse establishes a new Inertial frame of reference. Pulsed F sets up impulse in the frame of reference as conserved momentum another pulse of equal value add momentum to the previous frame of reference establishing a new frame. So now we read and watch and hear people describe this F of 1 N = 1 Kg accl. to 1 Mps ^ 2 an increase of velocity doubling with each doubling of distance this is not squaring. it is factoring by four. In other word 1 * 2 = 4 *2 =8 *2 =16 exc. It is a different curve if you were to lay it on a graph, than V^2 . So any way consider this thought, say you have a craft that comes in at a mass of oh how about 10,000 Kg and your out in space at 0 G already your biased centrifugal force propulsion motor (taz unit ) will deliver a nice reliable 10,000 N pulse once every second. You begin to accelerate in the end of the first second your V = 1 Mps by the end of the second second your at 2 Mps ext. So you keep going adding 1 Mps every second. in 299,792,483 second your V = 299,792,483 Meters per second ( light speed ) so divide it down to years = 9.49985052729 . so now go one further how far is it. the distance is the scalier of 1+2+3+4+5+ ext. up to 299,792,483 , it is a long way. next how old will you be ?.

[@garavsg8154]

Too young to comment But, in search for looking for habitable space wouldn't it be much cheaper to research setup habitat on sea. We have 2/3rd of earth is sea, waiting to welcome. Why chasing outer space living fantasy and justifying it lamely with lack of habitable space.. Or am I missing some sense here, common or otherwise ?

[@justinpyle3415]

you have a good point, but the engineering hurdles of building on top of turbulent water is too difficult. we still build ships which sink quite regularly.

[@asteronx]

As we begin moving out into the space we will also begin moving underwater and into the harsher regions of our planet, the various technologies that enable space colonization also enables underwater colonization. It is best to, as they say, not put all of our eggs in a single basket.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

I don't see the point of going to the seas to be honest. For one thing, our ever increasing population will make the seas deadly soon and for another, living in or on the oceans won't save our species from global disasters like super volcanoes or extinction level asteroid impacts. We MUST go into space or cease to exist at some point. Space has endless resources we can exploit to survive. The Earth's resources are limited.

[@garavsg8154]

@@justinpyle3415 We build spacecraft that goes down too. Sea is low hanging fruit and fruit of space is even unknown how it's look like. For space first find a place and our entire space research couldn't yield a single place yet. Then we would have to reach there and distances are in terms of light years not kilometers or miles then there may be challenges once we reach that spot which we would need to overcome. And between space and sea, space is MORE hostile at any hour of day compared to sea. Its only space glitz that is blinding us to look at sea as dwelling place.

[@benlong3016]

Remember, a object put in a bath tub of water, will raise the water level in that tub!!

[@2150dalek]

My Uncle once built an Interstellar Taxi out of an old refrigerator...It wasn't very luxurious, but it did have an ice water dispenser.

[@miketisone728]

that means we got a lot of quantum physics homework to perfect this technology....lol

[@debray-kingbomatthieu5579]

Impressed by your realism. I'm metaphysician and visualist, i even successfully determined the flow time speed in a photon and closer around. You will understand,... I talked with some physicians, the Supra Light compensation thing like this... The ubiquitous Tachyonic Field, phantom. The quantic jump in the wave function These things are extremely hard to understand in detail even the action of the void spaces in a vacuum. And the problem is show it in equation, it often violate the Constant, you see it's why a ton of physicians doesn't believe but a part believe. We are this little part. When you talk about energy required, you must be able to understand local requirements and universal, it's different as density (example) but you have a very good understanding, as on simultaneously transfer. Some physicians believe (we take a black hole) after the horizon you can determine you are going on singularly. It's so wrong... It's simultaneously you crush on or pass through. Singularity could even be the size of event horizon due to the perpendicular angle of space so light is 100% jailed but I add not more, the spin being a factor. Thank you for your documentary.

[@kennethferland5579]

This is not 'technology' it is THEORY, huge difference.

[@resonanceofambition]

Nor is it THEORY but a HYPOTHESIS.

[@krozareq]

A large number of hypothesis at that, all having to be right despite being mathematical fabrications that are neither tested or observed in the natural universe. I am not downplaying the importance of such areas of study, but it has to come with a healthy skepticism. With our lack of knowledge of the sub-atomic universe, a lot of holes have to be filled based on educated assumptions.

[@mrspeigle1]

@@krozareq yeah but it makes good fodder for scifi authors

[@appraised7090]

buzzkill

[@wernerboden239]

E=MC² means: You need infinte energy to move a mass beyond light speed. But the energy is provided from the perspective of the observer. If we try to accellerate mass, like a particle accellerator, we provide energy to a mass, from the perspective of the observer, which makes it impossible to accellerate beyond the speed of light. If the mass that is accellerated, carries it's own propulsion, then things might be different. I hope I make sense to some people. Because, then ... energy might become infinate to the observer, in which case it might be possible to travel beyond the speed of light.

[@deusexaethera]

"The Alcubierre Drive seems the most promising, but it does have issues." LOL, there's an understatement. The Alcubierre Drive would require more energy than exists in the observable universe to generate the concave-curved space needed to make it work.

[@tnc9458]

Now Energy requirements are down to the negative mass of a voyager

[@deusexaethera]

A Voyager space probe or a Voyager starship from Star Trek? Just making sure I know what you mean. Either way, generating ANY amount of negative energy on-demand is technologically impossible at this time, so we can't test whether the latest hypotheses actually work.

[@telumatramenti7250]

@@deusexaethera What is the mass of Voyager from Star Trek? And does this number include the weight of information media like fake technical blueprints and drawings of Voager and pages of text about Voyager? And the DVDs and VHS tapes, and the mass of all the synapses of trekkies' brains dedicated to Voyager? Shit that's a lot of negative mass to generate )))

[@deusexaethera]

@@telumatramenti7250: Good question. I don't actually know. But you can subtract this trekkie's 8-pound brain from the total, because Voyager was never my favorite series. DS9 is my jam.

[@jeremypace249]

Dr. Musha is mixing a lot of theories here - ZPE, ZPF, squeezed light, negative energy, laser/photon arrays, as well as the tachyon theories of reversed-logic for F=ma. What was not covered was if the Musha Jump Drive would stay in the known universe or go interdimensionally to another realm while FTL. The former would require some kind of protective element to the field effect while FTL, or else shown (by the red-and-blue balls example), hitting even a hydrogen atom while FTL would cause the ship to veer off-course. I am also interested in who did the animations? Especially the saucer-ship in the last 5 minutes of the video.

[@PaddyPatrone]

wow great

[@maurozirbes1960]

Wonderful video! Excellent job, great explanation thank you!

[@fuzzylumpkin8030]

Hell yeah bro a new branch of research

[@Domtxn]

Before watching this video I watched the one about the Alcubierre drive. If I understood correctly the drive has a side effect of reducing the apparent mass of any ship to zero. By doing this wouldn't it allow the energy necessary to accelerate the ship to be easily obtainable? Thus making super luminal travel very possible. We are talking about the energy necessary to accelerate zero mass to superluminal velocity.

[@MacarthurLouissaint-rz7tl]

This was a great video

[@abizair1832]

Where is the *Star Trek Discovery's Spore Drive* ?? It's also a *Jump Drive!*

[@asteronx]

The Musha Jump Drive is a proposal for a real drive. Star Trek's drive is only science-fiction.

[@davidalynnepippert6530]

Warp drive is better when they get the bugs out of the warp engines

[@asteronx]

Indeed, that applies to both overgrown tardigrades and software or engineering bugs ;)

[@davidalynnepippert6530]

A Warp drive on a starship would get the ship to its destination quickly

[@asteronx]

The jump drive is faster for the same energy.

[@nil981]

@@asteronx I'm not so sure about that. I mean NASA tested warp fields in a modified interferometer and got "inconclusive results". So for now, the warp drive and the jump drive are both equally dubious propositions. The musha jump drive seems pretty bad for intergalactic travel.

[@asteronx]

The energy requirements of Musha jump drive for a shorter jump, even one between adjacent galaxies, is quite reasonable--especially when compared with the energy requirements of the warp drive. Even with Dr. White's modifications (should they prove valid) the energy required to travel via warp drive, at merely 10c, from Sol to Alpha Centauri is the mass-energy of Voyager. The jump drive would require a tiny fraction of that energy to do the same, and to do so at speeds so great as to be instantaneous.

[@chazfatur1929]

Okay still, unlike Star Wars, could we then plot feasible course or direction to other solar systems? And can the Musha Jump Drive pull them out in time?

[@asteronx]

The whole process occurs instantaneously and automatically. The ship accelerates in the desired direction, and provided a certain threshold is exceeded, the ship will dematerialize and subsequently rematerialize some distance away in that direction. Accelerating faster increases the distance travelled.

[@chazfatur1929]

@@asteronx - Sure, I get that part, but still, can it pick n chose a desired direction, say like another solar system? How accurate can it be?

[@chrisgriffith1573]

Well, the first thing, (and last thing) to go thru my mind is the back wall of the "Musha Jump Drive", when you make the mind boggling jump past 186,000 mile per SECOND. No amount of fictional "inertial dampening" can prevent that, and altering the mass of a person will definitely kill them as well. Let's just take a gradual jump of say 30,000 mph at a time, STILL lethal. Ok, how about jumps in increments of 5000 mph? STILL lethal. 1000? STILL lethal. 500? ... Lethal. Its the sudden stop that kills you right? In this case, it's the VIOLENT start. Besides the problem of the "sudden acceleration", there is the question of what happens inside the bubble of "negative energy"... more than likely, the contents of this space would be totally annihilated by instability of the content touching or atomically vibrating against the bubble's edge, and as that happens, the entire contents would soon, (timescales on the quantum scale) be "splatted" or exploded into oblivion. This might make a hyper-luminal bomb? (SWTLJ hyperdrive-ramming) What is funny is, the explosion might not happen at our end for an observer, but at the exit point or destination where the bubble "cuts off". Besides the issues of physicality, mathematics are theory only, and many "mathematical correct" diagrams and thought experiments are not part of the "real universe" of the 4 dimensions that we live in and are held to, therefore, the "extra-dimensional" parts of this equations will certainly prove to be unviable for humans.

[@wazooboy]

Chris, would not the people aboard the craft have to be affected the same way the craft would? If the craft's mass is altered to near zero, then so would the crew's! And their blood and internal organs. Otherwise, the interior workings of the craft would be left at the initial location as well. Less mass equals more and easier acceleration. You would be within the laser field of altered mass.

[@TMPCarbs]

Great job guys! Give us some more options for future videos

[@xp9792]

The big problem all these theories of FTL and Jump Drive never address is the massive G-forces created during acceleration & deceleration that would turn any live passengers to pudding. Star Trek referred to these as inertial dampeners. No one has invented those yet and without them, FTL is a moot point for human space travel.

[@OldNavajoTricks]

MmmmmPudding.....

[@asteronx]

Actually, the jump, and the acceleration preceding it, occur so quickly that there is no time for any g-forces to be felt by the ship and passengers.

[@juanfernandez1696]

The warp drive doesn't have that problem. It does not move instead it moves the space around it making g-forces and inertia into a moot point.

[@montanvs]

Too quick to be felt? Huh? Sorry that doesn’t make any sense at all. What’s the science behind that?

[@fen4554]

AsteronX What about time dilation?

[@SuperMadpom]

Maybe I missed something but wouldn't accelerating that fast just turn a Human being to mush?

[@christophermclachlan4625]

Like the other drives, it only accelerates from a 3rd party perspective.

[@aminbe3079]

I hope Elon Musk invest in this

[@vistaero]

He's not that rich. He can barely get BFR funded, not even talk about brand new science.

[@Pippinn13]

He'll be even less rich if he keeps calling people he doesn't like paedophiles

[@vistaero]

"people he doesn't like" Yeah, he just didn't like him. That diver insulting Elon and telling lies about his submarine had nothing to do.

[@darktrooper9813]

Asteron, I just got here and I’m enjoying the hypothetical tech videos. I know there’s a company out there called Positron Dynamics working on making positron-based engines. Maybe a video idea? :)

[@MrBorceivanovski]

It looks very promising #

[@muttleyjones2]

I know one way to reduce the mass of a body (lets say spacecraft and get it over with) that you wish to accelerate to speeds approaching the speed of light or c. The way to reduce the mass of a body that you wish to accelerate to the speed of light is really rather simple. Have it crewed by little people. I am surprised that nobody thought of it.

[@jennifermcdonald5432]

Absolutely mind blowing! Sadly, in my opinion the human species is deeply flawed and the sooner we die out and a mark 2 starts its evolution the better. I can think of nothing worse than us spreading across the universe.

[@marcparella]

jennifer: you need to date better men.

[@zurran00]

The plasma field drive works in a similar way. The Warp-field drive would render it self to a Mass Effect kind of situation. Where a rail-gun shooting a ship with a warp field around it would also make for fast one way trips.

[@jchoneandonly]

Frameshift drive charging

[@piggypiggypig1746]

*Friendship drive

[@borntodoit8744]

My take : two concepts E=MC^2 and catapult effect AT speed of light. To get a spacecraft up to speed of light C reduce the mass of craft by reducing the bonds between atoms/sub-atomic components (seems these bonds account for actual mass more than the weight of the atoms bonded together) THEN also observe that you can jump beyond speed of light C into superluminous light speed. I dont know how they get around Einsteins theory of E=MC^2 but seems they do so they can use the catapult effect to then "jump shot" almost instantaneously....sounds like complete hookum but they are doing maths (which i cant follow personally). I prefer to believe if it could be prooved to some degree otherwise its pure science fiction for me.

[@positronundervolt4799]

Mars has no terraforming potential. Sorry.

[@joshsat9106]

Incorrect. The report said that with current technology it would be nearly impossible. But only 100 years ago biplanes were fighting over Europe. In another 100 years who knows.

[@Nijoshae]

the mass of mars can´t hold a "thick" type of atmosphere for long + if we could manage to built one there, we would first have to move mars´moons so that they are not scraping the future atmosphere and fall towards the surface - ... so good luck increasing mars´mass and dealing with the moons

[@joshsat9106]

de orbit the moons. a touch more mass. and a bunch of heat energy.

[@washingtonwebfoot9908]

Deorbit the...?! Ok, an artificial magnetic field at the Lagrange point, while currently cost prohibitive, is still feasible but knocking a moon out of orbit...man, that is technology way, WAY off into the future! You are talking about truly massive...staggering, actually... amounts of energy.

[@joshsat9106]

@@washingtonwebfoot9908 or just a lot of time and a highly effecient way of doing it. Its not beyond us. Just really fucking hard.

[@jefferyclark2114]

I actually have done some works on propellant less and jump.drive in an electrophoresis environment, as I don't have access to space. Some of the spin offs are things like ionic force fields are possible. It is possible to move objects at very high speeds without thrust. It's possible to reduce an objects weight and resistance to motion by vibrating it at a very high rate etc. It's an interesting field if study,that among other things that FTL propulsion is not only possible but something we've simply been overlooking. If we treat the speed of light as a barrier like the sound barrier then a field to make an object slippery and a non thrust drive that is sufficiently energetic should be able to reach sufficient velocity to punch through the barrier. We have found that such a projectile for lack if a better term falls back into normal space when it encounters a solid physical object. We believe the forces with in the obstructing object repell/slow down the projectile causing it to fall into normal space.

[@markissboi3583]

Anyone👉💬😲 got a spare flux capacitor left hand screws' ❓ short 2 s/s ones thanks 👨‍⚕️👍

[@GIguy]

Despite Einstein‘s theory of relativity, I honestly believe that the speed of light is not the universal speed limit. Not long ago, scientists showed that they can actually go faster than light speed, in a much much smaller scale course, but in theory, it is extremely likely that the speed of light is not, I repeat not, the universal speed limit. Throughout human history, the naysayers has said that we could never ever beat the speed of sound, that we could never travel in a car going hundreds of miles per hour, driven by the computer and not a human, they claimed countless things, yes we have proven them all wrong, and that everything we were told would be impossible is now not only just possible but a part of every day life, well, perhaps not yet regarding the car going hundreds of miles per hour by itself, but we already do have autonomous vehicles, it’s only a matter of time until it’s perfected, and will allow us to zip along at speeds we could never have obtained by a human driver. In that same spirit, I see the light speed barrier, as just one more limit for humanity to break, and we will, there is absolutely nothing we cannot do, it’s just a question of time, especially considering how quickly our technological abilities are advancing. I was born in 1968, when I was a child, the technology today’s children play with, if brought back in time to when I was a child, would seem like magic, and something from the far far distant future, when in reality it was only really a question of 30 years or so. Using the same logic, at 51 years of age, if I’m lucky to live that long, I can’t wait to see what we have in a further 30 years from now. Things that we now consider impossible will be common place, and that I have absolutely no doubt. I think it’s human nature to doubt, but I have always kept a very open mind, and have always considered possibilities instead and saying it’s impossible, and not giving it a second thought. I honestly believe that by the time humanity reaches the timeframe that Star Trek is supposed to be set in, our technology will far exceed anything Star Trek has on it show. That’s not crazy, that’s not unrealistic, that is a fact. Within my lifetime, we went from having practically no technology, To having technology practically run every single thing we do. For the young people reading this, you can’t even begin to imagine how incredible that seems to me, but when I stop and think about it, it’s nothing short of Americal as to how far we have come so fast. If you were to tell me back in 1978 when I was 10, that I would have the access to the sum of human knowledge, on A device no larger than a cardboard envelope, with a high definition screen, and abilities to talk to anybody anywhere on earth face-to-face, I would never have believed it. Yet I am dictating this using the voice control on my iPad Pro as I speak. If we had come that far in such a short period of time, just imagine what we are going to accomplish in the future? These are the times I wish I could live forever, although I will admit that while I am 51, my doctors have already told me I have the health and the body, of a 25-year-old man, and how? I use my technology, programs specifically designed to help keep me young play suggesting exercise and diet, along with lifestyle choices, and it is working perfectly, and this is all without any biological implants. Cybernetics will be a huge part of our future, and will indeed increase humanity’s potential. I am not afraid to use technology so it’s full benefit, i’ve already consulted with several doctors on certain cyber Tronic implants throughout my body, which will guarantee me a very long and healthy life. Of course there’s no guarantees in life, that’s just a given, but when I die it’s not going to be from a disease. My immune system has been strengthened so much thanks to technology, that it is almost impossible for me to catch any type of virus or genetic abnormality like cancer. I have participated in several studies, unfortunately I am bound by secrecy, but these studies were conducted in government laboratories in cooperation with several pharmaceutical firms, and the main focus of their study, longevity, and what they can do to increase it. In the not too distant future, people living to 150, two 250 years will become commonplace, unfortunately it creates a whole new set of problems socially. We’re already suffering from the effects of overpopulation, the scientist with whom I worked with told me that they are desperately searching for ways for our society to cope with people living more than double the lifespan their predecessors did. It’s a very complex, expensive, and extremely combustible topic. Government across the world are just now beginning to prepare for a society, when we all start living past 100 years. It’s already affected that we will not be retiring at 65, if we can live to almost 200 years old, our health will be adequate enough to keep working for as long as we want. Again, I cannot tell you exactly why I did in the study, but I can tell you that I know for a fact I’m going to live a very very long time, which is why I am so excited about future technologies. I’ve always prayed to God that I would be alive to witness man’s first faster than light travel into the galaxy, which will be a huge milestone for humanity. I now know that I will wait long enough to see it, it’s just a question of when, not if.

[@asteronx]

Need not have the time to read all that you said, but with regards to your statement, "universal speed limit", you are basically correct. The speed of light is not so fundamental ...

[@MrKerr808]

I believe we already have warp drive... and i believe we been using it for over 30-50 years

[@geoffreystraw5268]

Why do you believe this?

[@now-you-know-it]

ANY proof?????????

[@nicosmind3]

I believe that you're wrong. Way wrong.

[@superluminalprobabilityclo6884]

personal truth = belief objective truth = science

[@MrKerr808]

@@superluminalprobabilityclo6884 correct, or family that works for NASA and the NAVY and airforce but I wouldn't disclose that anyway, so personal belief is good for me ;)

[@gamaray992]

Would the sudden acceleration not kill any humans inside

[@asteronx]

No because the warp drive negates all g forces.

[@danielbudney7825]

I'm fine with a video about a Jump Drive, but Living Space is your concern? The Population Density of France is 120 persons per km-sq, and the U.K. is twice that. The USA is 33, with 6 times the available area. Humanity could easily fit another 5 billion people in North America alone ... and Africa has enough *space* for 10 billion. It's not about "Living Space", it's about Food and Energy -- both problems we have been solving for decades, and will continue to solve by applying new tech. Global Warming is the real challenge ... and heading to another planet when we're not evolved enough as a society to take care of our own? That's irresponsible.

[@asteronx]

Eventually population pressures on Earth will force us to find additional worlds, it is a long-term challenge.

[@moguldamongrel3054]

Food actually isnt an issue, the issue is waste. We throw away alot of food. Energy also isnt an issue again its waste. If every vehicle on earth had a copper sphere built around the engine block to absorb radiant heat the amount of energy lost would be contained and easily converted back into electricity. Humans have a huge problem with efficiency.

[@asteronx]

Efficiency is important and insufficiently implemented, yes. However, efficiency alone will not prevent nor alleviate all our problems.

[@geoffread2707]

Daniel Budney Isaac Arthur’s channel has many videos pretty much dismissing most concerns that stem from ‘lack of living space’. A Kardashev 2 civilisation would have space enough for literally quadrillions of people. We’ll likely get there within one to two hundred years.

[@EnhancedCognition]

Another perspective (as the video maker originally alluded to) is the concern of a cataclysmic meteor strike where having our entire species on a single planet greatly increases the chances of extinction from such an event. We certainly have much to improve with ourselves as a species before we should go out colonizing other worlds in the best case scenario. But it would be a shame if we were wiped out before we had sufficient time to make those improvements.

[@daryllect6659]

*_The vital component of the light-speed jump drive is the bi-polar subatomic counter-wound induction windings used to produce semi-neutronic anti-particles broadcast with magnehelic repulsion transmitters and pulse-polarized using bi-directional episodic dipole diverters. Semi-acoustic vertically-interspersed harmonic wave transducers are frequency modulated with proton-injected capacitance inverters and phase-synchronized laminar condenser windings._*

[@tomlies506]

I would have let you borrow my microwave if you had just asked.

[@wernerboden239]

No idea what he is talking about. But it seems to me, they are mashing up some bunch of different theories with quantum physics. Looks like they want a large mass to become like a photon or whatever. Zero point energy, quantum tunneling, casimir effect. Just a bunch of loose terms, imo. Anyway, it is propably a bunch of nonsense, that just sounds complicated and interesting. Einstein said, if you cannot explain things simply, you dont understand it. Clickbait..

[@wernerboden239]

You cannot avoid those in math, like the Lorentz curve in Einsteins's special relativity, it exists. But does it really exist in physics ? No one knows. Does real life physics follow the math that 'we invented' to make us understand things and fit with with our models and equations ? It is what you speak of, I think. We are trying to explain the beach, according to a grain of sand.

[@MunicipalityCity]

I smoked a Jeffrey a few minutes before I watched and it made a lot of sense. I’m feelin pretty excited for the future of the human race now.

[@Yora21]

Quantum, whooo!

[@lewisd56]

just come across this video, the problem here is that it's actually 'faster than light' travel, whereas the alcubierre drive isn't actually faster than light travel. the issue with this is the fact that as you accelerate, space is 'compressed', at the speed of light, space is compressed infinitely, hence, you reach your destination immediately. There's a problem that demonstrates this (though i cant remember the name) where you have 2 spacecraft leave earth, one travels at .98c, one at .99c, neither crew will be able to agree on who got there first, how far they travelled and how long it took, since time would not equally have slowed for each craft, and the distance would not have compressed equally. Therefore, say a distance of 5 lightyears, the time taken would be substantially less than 5 years, in fact probably closer to 5 weeks, for the crew on board the spacecraft, this is because space is compressed and time slows, relative to an observer at zero. therefore, FTL travel doesn't really require actually travelling faster than light, but it means that breaking this theoretical 'light barrier' actually isn't necessary, the issue that exists here is the fact that a spacecraft may travel somewhere in weeks at .99c, but on earth it takes it 5.5 years for 5 lighyears of travel. This then brings me to the alcubierre (warp) drive, which works on a principle of compressing and expanding space at the front and back of the spacecraft, to propel it at a faster than light speed through space, once again, this isn't truly faster than light, but we are pretty certain that space itself can move faster than light. Since the warp drive creates a static field of space that maintains the properties of the space before warp was engaged around the craft, teh spacecraft itself never moves any faster than it originally was, the space that is is in moves, therefore, no time dilation, no compression of space time, no horrible FTL and close to light side effects, and a distance of 5 lightyears would appear the same distance for 2 ships travelling at different warp speeds, they would be able to agree on who got there first and how long it took. I may not be 100% correct here, but FTL travel suggested, according to the current laws of physics, can't really happen. Now, unless some details were omitted from the video (like spacial compression and time dilation), there are things missing from these theories that mean they can't work.

[@carlousmagus5387]

Very interesting and informative. My only question is how is Warp Drive too slow. The Enterprise A could travel the 16 ly to Vulcan in less than a day T maximum warp, ( 9.2 ).

[@asteronx]

Well, Star Trek is fiction after all, a real Alcubierre Warp drive could not go so fast without massive amounts of energy, even Dr. White's variant would still require enough energy that premade antimatter would be required to fuel it.

[@novasolarius8763]

Current estimates put a warp drive at around ten times the speed of light. Higher speeds can be attained, but they would require increasingly advanced technology to reduce the warp bubble wall thickness further. To illustrate why this is too slow, travel from our system to the nearest other star would still take around five months. It would require five months of food, water, oxygen, waste storage, energy and exotic matter to complete that journey.

[@nil981]

@@novasolarius8763 I have heard different things from different sources regarding warp drive speed. Let's use alpha centauri for an example. One estimate I've commonly seen is that an alcubierre warp drive can allow a starship to reach the star system in two weeks. Which means that in that case, the warp drive has a rough speed of 114.2×c (114.2 times the speed of light). I've heard estimates as high as 2 months. There was another source that said that warp drives can attain such high speeds that you could reach the nearest galaxy within a fraction of a fraction of a second but the kind of speed needed to do that is the hard limit on how fast a warp drive can go. Therefore I think it's unwise to assume speed limits on ftl drives. Only time will tell if any of these drives ever come to fruition.

[@chriggsiii]

You might want to look up what Space Warp Dynamics is working on, headed by Professor David Pares. They are exploring the possibility that negative energy might not be the only way to create a spacetime bubble or warp.

[@nil981]

@@chriggsiii links please?

[@OldNavajoTricks]

The first people to travel Ftl will use a Musha drive to become just Mush, this puts people off attempting any further manned launches until a viable inertia field system is implemented some fortysix years (Sol) later...

[@kayrosis5523]

Ok. You have my attention! And a new sub

[@fahermsen]

Hey that music on the background where did you get it from IT's so relaxing. Nice Information i'm exited what the futere Brings.

[@peter8488]

my brain hurts, could super cooling help to reach near negative energy to the outside of the skin while keeping the inside habitable?

[@asteronx]

With laser cooling, we can cool a small number of atoms down to nearly zero, but to go below zero, into the realm of negative energy requires a different approach, such as the one proposed by Dr. Musha.

[@timothyg967]

Pilot wave theroy is why of the standard model - just needs updated with 3d resonance patterns for every ‘particle’ and their interactions

[@jokuvainen7053]

Idk about The paper, but seems odd comparison-electrons can only tunnel to lower energy. There may be such state(s) both ways but this seems to be same, needs negative energy/mass to work. And what would negative mass do immediately ? Infinite energy for you If you ever caught it on your garage.

[@jirachaipanyarith3969]

I think that in space has no air and no resister except,spacejunk,meteorite, space dust and any stars,so it is not nessesorry that the starship will be sharpen disigned like a rocket.That means any shape of starship or space craft should be any form,any shape and without wing .The most important thing is the technology of spaceship moving , not the format.That is why UFO in the sky has unlimited shape,isn't it?

[@ericgolightly8450]

The lunar module was designed for space, and it's not sharp at all. Satellites aren't either.

[@Salah9999]

So the one thing that no one seems to mention, in the video or in the comments as far as I've had time to read is that by definition this kind of craft would be taking it and it's passengers back in time. Furthermore, this really is NOT a jump drive, while you are going faster than the speed of light you still are moving at a speed (again a kind of reverse speed because your moving back in time), but that still means that the farther you want to go, the further you are also going in time. And there in lies the biggest problem with this kind of spacecraft, you would still be violating the laws of entropy. Still is an interesting thought experiment though, thank you loads for the video!

[@asteronx]

As of 2018, it is still a mystery as to the source of the arrow of time, also, entropy is routinely violated on ultra-microscopic scales. Given that the Musha jump drive utilizes these same ultra-microscopic phenomena, it is not violating the laws of physics anymore than a tunneling electron.

[@justmehere2180]

By going super luminal, you would in effect be jumping to a different plane of existence, or dimension. I do not see where in there anything indicates that you would travel in time. Normal time should pass while the vessel is in a super luminal state. Besides, time, or our concept of it is relative to where it is being observed from. The very name of the Theory of Relativity, indicates that the observations of the indicated fields are relative to how and where they are observed. Are you saying that if I were traveling at the speed of light, that if I turned on a flashlight and pointed it in the direction that I am traveling, that there would be no light coming out of it? There would be a beam of light traveling at the speed of light relative to where the beam begins. Therefore essentially the light coming from the flashlight would be traveling at twice the speed of light from an outside observation, but only at the normal speed of light for the point of the initial beam.

[@osmosisjones4912]

An Electronic Coil Tite close together around each coil and focusing energy into one point in front and then releasing. it and pushing it around your ship also fuel that gains desesity before rest of material craft is made of and tiny nanoscopic wiring to release it around the craft. And the Galaxy is spinning go against it's spin a flow of Time

[@chingompiew1]

I enjoyed the video and am glad that you covered the topic. It was a little difficult to understand because the music sometimes made it difficult to pick out the words. The song from 2:00~5:15 was at a good volume but the trumpet was playing at frequencies similar to your voice muddying it up. From 5:20 to 7:40 the song had nice contrasting high frequencies but was a little loud and drowned out your voice. Criticisims aside, thank-you for making the video.

[@rainer1980]

Multiple Light Speeds Theory proposes though that there isn't one constant speed of light barrier to overcome, but in terms of String Theory, there could be multiple speeds of light traveling like strings of light speed across the universe, and a space craft would have to catch one of these light speed strings, and ride it across the universe.

[@CP3clippernation]

Here is an interesting thought: There is a theory that each minuscule spot or space in the universe has it own frequency and vibration. We don’t yet have the technology to measure this. Say you have a certain object in area A, and you want to teleport it to area B. If you are able to hit the object in area A with frequency vibration of area B (if had the measurement and tech available), in that theory, object in area A will cease to exist and appear in area B. Anybody else heard something similar to this?

[@onaughto]

thanks great video! I love these FTL drive ideas.. what happens to anyone who is inside the spacecraft? Does the negative energy bubble protect them or are they subject to the full brunt of instant acceleration? haha I hope not.

[@ericgolightly8450]

I think getting rid of mass gets rid of inertia, so you could barely tell if you tunnel pass lightspeed.