NASA/DARPA Scientists Found a Way To Create an Actual Warp Bubble (In Theory)

[@PlasteredDragon]

What could travel in a nanosized warp bubble? Information! Even if this doesn't lead to FTL spacecraft, it could lead to FTL communication, which would have a lot of useful applications. It would be fun, for example, to drive a remote-controlled rover in realtime on the surface of Titan from a lab here on Earth.

[@ollllj]

its fun, how quantum entanglement does not break causality, but may be used to instantly transmit information about an unpredictable state change over significant distances (and you may control the state-changes), because you still have to move entangled mass apart from each other.

[@stefanf922]

Proof of concept is a baby step, but it's in the right direction.

[@PavelSikun]

Exactly. Even if this concept works, but not scalable to big objects, it still could be used for timeline synchronization. Having 0-latency ping throughout our civilization would revolutionize everything. Also would break causality, which is future people problem.

[@ansonpui5855]

nasa should hire you, I really mean it

[@ansonpui5855]

now what's we need are nano everything

[@plvmbvm513]

Even if it's only on a nano-scale, just imagine what it could do for communication. Imagine what 0-latency communication between here and mars could do for future rover projects

[@caseynoface9439]

They already in use

[@kathrynck]

Sounds like they need to try a phone-microwave (name subject to change).

[@stefanschleps8758]

Without instantaneous communication ftl travel is not viable. The biggest challenge is ftl navigation. Thats the next hurdle we have to overcome. We should solve all three by the end of this century. We could have ftl propulsion in ten or twenty years if we pooled our resources and worked together. The biggest obstacle is a negative attitude. Good luck.

[@ublade82]

? Just put humans on Mars to drive rovers

[@God_of_Calamity]

Subspace communication.

[@marginbuu212]

These kinds of discoveries blow my mind. Hopefully I'm still alive when they find a way to put this to practical use somewhere.

[@Greg-yu4ij]

That’s weird, the first I heard about this, I said to myself I don’t care if Russia takes over Ukraine, wall the whole damn thing off for a few years so we can do more important things like not blow the world up or dial back society to 1700s because “climate”. Maybe , just maybe we can go visit the stars! That’s way more important than everything except survival.

[@danthespaceman9747]

You’re gonna need a major advancement in medicine as well if you wanna see it.

[@bluerilius4362]

@@danthespaceman9747 don’t crush our dreams like that 💀🗿

[@danthespaceman9747]

@@bluerilius4362 well if You want Hope for your future, it’s actually fairly probable such medical advances may occur within our lifetimes.

[@bluerilius4362]

@@danthespaceman9747 fingers crossed i can buy that at the future grocery store before i bite the dust 🤞💀🪦

[@kristapsmuravjovs7061]

It's been a while since I've been this space-hyped, almost giddy! Sure, maybe it really is some type of error, but the fact itself that humanity is actually considering FTL travel, 'flirting with serious intent', so to say, is just mindblowing to me, what a time to be alive. Thanks Anton, this is really cool.

[@Elenthiriel]

the fact that i can see this type of content and it is actually based in studies instead of sensationalism, makes love this channel

[@hawkdsl]

I guess the next question would be; Can we detect warp speed trails, and/or "wakes" from using such a technique. That could be a way of finding a tech sig for extraterrestrials.

[@_John_P]

It would require a space based LIGO spanning a few hundred thousand to million km in length with current tech.

[@hapybratt8640]

@@_John_P Source?

[@_John_P]

@@hapybratt8640 LIGO can only detect waves from massive objects orbiting each other very close on the verge of merging. There's a list of all events detected so far on their website and you won't find anything mundane there, such as a planet orbiting its star, much less other civilisations travelling around with that technique. The cause is how short LIGO is. In order to detect fainter sources, LIGO would need to move into space to cancel most of the noise it has to filter for being attached to the ground on Earth and then grow in span considerably to increase its sensitivity without increasing noise.

[@TheHuxely]

@@_John_P of course, there may be other methods of detecting a wake of the sort the OP is talking about. Other than the LIGO way. LIGO was designed to detect generic grav waves if they existed and was successful. Another experiment designed to detect something with a different character may be possible with current tech. At least I haven’t seen an analysis on this.

[@_John_P]

@@TheHuxely There's no theoretical alternative to LIGO. LISA is the space based version of LIGO and if successful it would be able to detect binary stars with its few million km long arms. To detect what the OP wants, we're talking about a space based detector, with a few million km arms and improved technology such the Holometer.

[@timwhitmire5569]

When I first found out about the news I thought it was clickbait but you proved me wrong. Your one of the few KZbinrs that don’t lie and thank you for that.

[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@timwhitmire5569]

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[@Toxyethanol]

@@Cliffordlonghead says the guy saying the same shit on every comment lmao get a life.

[@Toxyethanol]

@@timwhitmire5569 Yeah I like how he covers it with excitement and then gives a realistic, unbiased opinion.

[@gnomeofwar]

@@Cliffordlonghead LOSER BOT

[@Nova_Afterglow]

Honestly one of the most mind blowing things is that we have a nanoscale 3D printer 🤯

[@PavelSikun]

Even more mindblowing is that microscale 3d printers using photolithography are getting progressively cheaper. I know, it's 1000 times the scale, but still being able to print resin with 10 micron resolution at home is literally 1000€ tech. Imagine what will be possible in another 10 years!

[@johncox2865]

I remember when inkjet printers were brand new, and how amazing we all thought that was. Please, just let me get used to the idea of 3D printing at normal scales first ! ;-)

[@davejones9469]

I can't wait until we can 3d print drugs as long as we have the right base elements a la the Trek replicator. "Earl Grey, hot, and a bowl of cocaine."

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

$139.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

@@davejones9469 please no drugs only medicine

[@LemonLadyRecords]

Your reporting on scientific papers is far above most non-science news media and blogs. You are more careful, accurate, and cautious than they are, which is why you have such a big audience here (and deserve more). Just reading the linked The Debrief article about this "discovery" illustrates this better than even MSM's scientific errors. Their blog reads like clickbait Seventeen Magazine for science fiction fans.

[@greylance473]

Love, love, love your videos. I share with my teenage grandchildren. Thank you fir your time, energy and layman's descriptions. Bringing the Cosmos to the everyday person...brilliant!

[@niftybass]

This is amazing stuff! FTL travel is essential for the universe to change from a spectator sport to something we can participate in. Evidence of great science communicator: I'm not interested in *everything* you bring us, but you make everything you bring accessible. Thank you, Anton!

[@BladeTrain3r]

FTL isn't vital for us to expand into the universe, there are ways to build a galactic civilisation with STL, but FTL would certainly reduce the timescales and make it easier for us not to break apart into different civilisations and evolutions. It's essential if we want some kind of homogeneity as a species beyond a few light years, I think. I think the most important field for us to expand into the universe is actually medical science. Not only to protect us from all the weirdness that deep space and different planetary environments, but also to keep people alive and healthy for longer and longer trips.

[@julien5053]

@@BladeTrain3r Any technology that helps us get faster from one point to another in space is good to have. If we ever discover a planet that can sustain life as we know it, we should definetly try to send a colony of humans there. In the shortest travel time possible. An if ever that technology is proven on a larger scale (the size of a spaceship) we should definetly us it.

[@julien5053]

​@@BladeTrain3r I absolutely agree with you that we should definetly inncrease our knowledge in medical science the furthest possible. But medical science takes a lot of time to develop. Physics and engineering needs a lot less time. If I were to bet on the most promising technology, I would bet on that one, if proven possible.

[@levyan4718]

We can't even deal with issues on this planet... We are not ready to conquest space and other planets

[@julien5053]

@@levyan4718 It's not about ethics, it's about survival of our specie. And that's exactly because things will get ugly on earth, that a colony on another planet might increase the chances of survival of our specie.

[@ProfessorJayTee]

This type of experiment could also produce new data that helps scientists link quantum mechanics and relativity. Any experiment "on the edge" of our understanding of a scientific field helps us learn more about its limitations and attributes. This experiment, being on the cutting edge of both fields, may finally help to join them.

[@Ghost-vg6iq]

Yeah especially that quantum gravity, that shit is puzzling us for 100s of years

[@james6401]

Yes, this is the attempt to quantise space-time or something like that? I'm not massively familiar with the history of experiments on gravity (was Cavendish the last??) but it's really worth mucking around with Einstein's theories in a hands-on fashion. Up to now his theories have just been 'confirmed' but I understand it would take energies on planetary scales to make a dent in spacetime. I've no idea how they'll be trying to do that but making hypotheses and failing often reveals unexpected stuff!

[@charley408]

Everything is connected out there, down here, everywhere. Right now I feel something going on in the planet

[@michaelallen2971]

I see you trying but unfortunately you are wrong. Ill give you all one clue. Space is expanding. Roll with the flow...

[@thenonacademy]

lmfao

[@isajmody2344]

You're giving me hope. I would have settled for a 20 year trip to Proxima Centauri, but this is amazing!!

[@simonpetrikov3992]

It's still probably going to be a relatively long trip in terrestrial time but instant in interstellar terms

[@davejones9469]

@@caseymoore4759 Wait, I want to clarify what you're saying. If say, you travel at near light speed, it would take 4 years for both you and onlookers? Because irl, by your perception (travelling near c) it would be a short trip (seconds to hours), but 4 years will have passed for the rest of the universe. That's how relativity works and I can't tell if that's what you're saying there.

[@CulinVlau]

@@davejones9469 Correct. Relativity allows for the traveler to experience a compressed time. This was proven with the ISS.

[@kunalsingh4418]

@@caseymoore4759 it really won't take 4 years for the passengers. I know that at near light speeds it only takes 20 years to cross milky way which is 10000 light years wide. All due to time compression. For people back on earth they probably took 10000 years but not for passengers.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

@@caseymoore4759 i know how light speed work but i think that the warp bubble had implications for the Alcubriere drive and FTL. I was referring in context to Faster-Than-Light travels and warp bubbles are constantly brought up to that warp drive

[@emessar]

Maybe it will never go anywhere, but sometimes things just start small. At first we were never able to make graphene in anything but small sizes but now it's getting to a size where we are starting to industrialize it. Excited to see where this goes.

[@Doozy_Titter]

You can literally create graphene at home with duck tape and some graphite, what are you on about 😂

[@Giavani-t4k]

Amazing. I actually understand the posit of a warp bubble surrounding the craft. After this discovery it doesn't rule out actually bringing to fruition this technology sooner than we think. Exiting. Only theory but still energizing.

[@kokari64]

I saw the article for this earlier today and couldn't wait for your video about it! Thanks for doing what you do Anton ❤️

[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@JohnSmithoriginal1]

i dont think the object in the bubble Moves.. i think it will probably vibrate /osilate. ..im just saying the math for a human is complicated

[@Huzaku]

I never trust articles until it's covered by anton. Glad to know this one wasn't just a farticle.

[@gnomeofwar]

@@Cliffordlonghead why yes, you ARE A BOT.

[@mikeuk666]

@@Cliffordlonghead Cliffordlonghead you're just jealous people are talking about the video content instead of attention seeking like you always do

[@dragonoflegend8798]

This is absolutely insane and I love every bit of it I’m imagining like the bubble is a treadmill and the belt is space itself. Like visually, a jet ski. Physically grabbing space to claw along and glide along Science fiction is becoming science fact right before our eyes 🥲😍❤️❤️❤️❤️ It almost sounds like a mobility glitch in a video game which only makes Me love this even more lol

[@preppen78]

Exercise will finally be within reach for everyone!

[@xyrus345]

The idea behind warp drive is that you aren't moving. Space is. Probably the first thing that could be done with this effect if we can get it to be a little more macro is artificial gravity. Create small warp emitters on the floor with just the spatial compression aspect, literally bending space towards the floor. Mini gravity fields. Maybe just for your feet at first, but gradually larger ones to recreate gravity itself.

[@LordWaterBottle]

@@xyrus345 this is really clever and I don't think most people could think of it. Did you get this idea from somewhere or is it your own?

[@xyrus345]

@@LordWaterBottle I'm glad you think it's clever, but really it just seemed like the logical first step in the process. If they can verify that they can create micro-warp fields using this effect, the next step would be to try and create a small-scale gravitational field by compressing very local areas of space (basically what a planet does by warping space, just on a much smaller scale). Artificial gravity, even if it's just sticking feet to the floor initially, would be incredibly useful.

[@NeoFrontierTechnologies]

I am fairly convinced that getting from point A to B faster than the speed of light may very well be possible one way or another. Time travel into the past makes no sense though - it always leaves a paradox - which indicates that something is wrong with the hypothesis. Time slowing down or moving faster relative to another location is something else and happens apparently though. I think people ending up believing that literal time travel into the past on the macro scale is possible ends up with an imaginary number and a paradox - an impossibility. This video was very interesting. This kind of research could lead to faster than light travel which would be just amazing. Anton's research is usually pretty objective and thorough. His videos are recommendable.

[@TheSwanvillan]

👍On the one hand the idea of warping space this way seems straightforward; Almost simple. ...But then I wondered what it would do to time and ended up melting my brain. Thanks a lot Anton!🖖

[@TheSwanvillan]

@Evening Commenter I get what you are saying, I think. But still; I could get into a warp-ship, depart on a trip, and could arrive at my destination BEFORE I even departed (in terms of my initial space-time reference point). So...that's really weird. It hurts my brain. Maybe you just understand it better than me. 🇺🇸🏳‍🌈 (🖕the👮)☮

[@goobot1]

@@TheSwanvillan you wouldn’t be arriving before you departed just the light from the point you departed from wouldn’t have yet made it to your destination simply giving that impression.

[@TheSwanvillan]

@@goobot1 Thanks - That is a good way of thinking about it, and actually cleared it up a bit for me.

[@james-kc7xk]

Anton, you are definitely the coolest dork I know! You're killin it dude!

[@RogerM88]

Huge progress in Space traveling could happen when we learn more accurately how Gravity waves work.Then we could "surf a wave", with a Spaceship.

[@juzoli]

Unfortunately, we just proved recently that these waves are traveling at c, which makes impossible for the warp bubble to travel over c too…

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

It isn't dependent on gravitational waves, which are confined to c. But expansion and contraction of spacetime isn't confined to c.

[@corbenya]

If the constant was different from another point in our universe.. it may hold merit. We allow all these theories to be sound, yet we never question outside the box. It's a possibility that gravity and light hold different C's" and should be recalculated from what points of space it is being influenced by. Our own magnetosphere influences how we understand the constant of light and gravity. Why shouldn't it change slightly on every body or star we come in contact with? We should allow a test to see what the constant on Mars is. It should or might be relatively close to earth, yet could be a little different speed constant. Enough though to propose that a constant is only constant on the body your observing it from. My idea 💡 or theory 🤔

[@juzoli]

@@satanicmicrochipv5656 Gravitational wave IS extraction and contraction of spacetime.

[@juzoli]

@@corbenya We already have measurements confirming that light and gravity travels with c over millions of ly distances, not just Mars.

[@erideimos1207]

Thank you, Anton! You're even more cheerful these days! Glad things worked out. 👍

[@kevinstevens5309]

Great job on the video, Anton! My favorite channel ❤ Thanks for your hard work in creating these masterpieces 😁

[@Kid_illithid]

Star Trek fans when they hear warp travel: yes! 40k fans when they hear warp travel: NOOOOO

[@bravexxrecon9872]

EMPEROR HAVE MERCY

[@jimzamerski]

I wonder how good the vacuum was in the plate experiment. Were the remaining atoms accounted for in the pressure on the plates?

[@alexnaturalis1179]

At the least, these nanocrafts could be used to transport communication across space faster than current eletromagnetic transmissions. In fact, what if there are nanobubbles already out there transporting particles from across the universe?

[@peaceonearth351]

And people don't think we're being watched by an higher intelligence. lol

[@Gunni1972]

You better aim those "news" very carefully. Or they get lost.

[@lemonke8132]

@@peaceonearth351 uh yeah why do you act like it's so obvious? Nothing about faster than light travel has even been proven, hell its existence violates causality, so i would say you're pretty stupid if you think we're being watched.

[@CyberPilotKSP]

I thought about medical application. In theory these warp drive nanocapsules could be used to deliver medicine to a selected organs or tissues.

[@ИльяПавлов-я1ж]

@@lemonke8132 The whole point of the warp drive is that it doesn't move (so it cannot break casuality or something). It warps space instead.

[@harrietharlow9929]

Very interesting. If this could be a faster-than-light propulsion this could be used in bringing exploration of the galaxy closer to reality. But even if nothing comes of this, it's very interesting.

[@RobertTempleton64]

The one upside of this is that in the process of experimenting and hypothesizing on this idea it could actually lead to the elusive connection of GTR and QT. This in itself, even without successful warp drive, would be a huge milestone.

[@peceed]

There is no need, in String Theory these phenomena are really good researched. And String Theory connects GR with QFT for 50 years.

[@the_unrepentant_anarchist.]

@@peceed QUOTE - "There is no need, in String Theory these phenomena are really good researched." No, they are not. QUOTE - "And String Theory connects GR with QFT for 50 years." No, it does not. 🙄 🍄

[@peceed]

@@the_unrepentant_anarchist. Don't write about things you have no clue about.

[@peceed]

@@RockBrentwood Gravitons and black holes are very well understood, to the point that String Theory is a quantum theory of gravity.

[@kennyvr1392]

one of the few channels without tumbs down and rightfully so keep up informing people with science 👏👍

[@scottmiller2591]

> Brilliant > EM drive This told me everything I needed to know.

[@sebkurry9174]

He was involved in falsifying March's theory about the EMDrive.

[@tayzonday]

Star Trek was fine until Discovery decided teleportation with some organic make-a-guy-crazy drive was needed to tell popular stories.

[@bridgetveralidaine3761]

I completely reject the idea that Discovery is part of the Star Trek universe. It was ripped off from I believe an (Egyptian?) guy's video game, and has abandoned actual.scientific theory and plausibility to pander to a different kind of audience.

[@stephenkolostyak4087]

@@bridgetveralidaine3761 Egyptian, apparently, but point stands.

[@JimElford]

@@bridgetveralidaine3761 I'd love to know more about this game they ripped off. I love TOS and TNG and the other shows were ok but this new wave of emo-Trek isn't for me.

[@ollllj]

warp speed was always exactly as fast as it was needed for drama.

[@commerce-usa]

Magic mushroom drive was a bridge too far? 😉

[@ajn465]

One of your greatest videos right here and proof as I felt for a long time that you are about the best science commentator on the inter-webs. 🖖😎. (Live long, prosper and stay cool!)

[@Emerald-Media-Productions]

Love this channel, you make very educational stuff and are always right on top of exciting news!

[@gregknipe8772]

no words really, you take people like me places we never thought of or completely comprehend. thank you. obviously you know many of us are not physics maestros. again, thank you.

[@solapowsj25]

Brilliant depictions to introduce a new idea, apt for today's science 🔬. Taking small steps👣: This principle of using a fluid cavity around the craft has value here on earth for the following: Reduce heating of spacecrafts during reentry. Reduce vibration of aircraft at Mach speeds. The power required is low since the shield is just a thin layer of ionized air around the craft that reduces friction. Today's FET devices achieve this. The principle may be used for any fast transportation vehicle, including the bullet trains and those using levitation.

[@Canthus13]

THANK YOU. I read the paper months ago and I saw the DARPA article and.. Yeah. I need a better breakdown.

[@_John_P]

The math in the paper is fringe, also they made a simulation, there was no experiment. The guy that wrote the paper is the same that worked on the EM drive, which has been debunked several times now in a few countries, and he's based on the visual appearance of what he saw in the simulation, somehow to him the picture (a sphere) looks like an Alcubierre warp bubble (a donut).

[@bhu1334]

It's sorta frustrating to realize that our progress in engineering is being halted by our inability to understand the universe and it's workings

[@demondeity9816]

The universe didn't come to be with an intent to be understood by us. The fact that we know now as much as we do is amazing.

[@FloofyMomo]

It's actually being halted by capitalism and greed.

[@hzechgamez]

@@FloofyMomothis just isn’t true lmao

[@obo2881]

HzechGamez ….well actually

[@DougyFresh69]

@@FloofyMomo how?

[@ZombieFBody]

"Make it so." Come on NASA, I'm 42, I want to see Proxima Centauri before I die!

[@jackvos8047]

You could always make a trip to the southern hemisphere. I see it whenever there is no cloud cover.

[@_John_P]

There are pictures taken from telescopes where you can see all its stars.

[@cedriceric9730]

Buy a telescope

[@RuneRelic]

The difference between a controlled and uncontrolled environment, is what can separate and create a potential difference. 1. Consider standing waves created between two plates to levitate water droplets, vs the environment outside the plates. 2. Consider capicitors with negetive charge within an air gap and positive charge outside the air gap. 3. Consider sound cancellation, by introducing negative standing waves to positive standing waves, or a 180 degree phase shift. i.e You can have chaos outside the environment and order within the environment. The harmonic synchronisation within the controlled environment, can create/throttle a chaos engine (by allowing more mass of the medium, to fill the space between the controlled environment, through coherent synchronous vibration or vice versa). Letting you leverage the cashmir effect and improve the efficiency. It would depend on the wavelengths of the medium within and without, their resonant harmonics in relation to the gap and the required tuning of the standing waves as a chaos throttle.

[@Parker2100]

Never heard Chekov say "Live long and prosper" before. Thanks Anton

[@MrSimonatra]

Thank you for another well-made youtube video, you really are one of the go-to's for science news and updates, I salute you and your effort!

[@erickrobertson7089]

Great video on a fascinating topic. It leaves me with the question of how do you ensure the path your taking is free of hazzards? How do you avoid collisions at FTL speeds?

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

GPS

[@pisscvre69]

if i understand correctly how a warp bubble works thats not really an issue, since your warping space around you your essentially in the same place at the beginning and end only that place has been moved and you with it, like if you were in a bathtub and warped to jupiter where you are the warp craft, then the bathwatter is the bubble, be sure to bring a towel tho the tub may not be inculded might be to far from you lol

[@andrewsuryali8540]

Well, first you find a desert planet in the ass end of nowhere that happens to be populated by giant sandworms, then you harvest their poop and immerse talented kids in the stuff while they grow up, put them in giant aquariums, and have them show you the way.

[@fw--kx6sk]

I think it works like walking over a compressed million kilometres long sponge. You don't have to watch out, because you are walking with 2m/s, but each step covers a distance of several thousand kilometres. If you hit something it's as painful as walking against a door

[@Returntonature145]

objects will just avoid the warp bubble

[@Tooluckyformyowngood]

Youre the most wonderful person Anton! Thank you for the video!!

[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@mikeuk666]

@@Cliffordlonghead you're just jealous people are talking about the video content instead of attention seeking like you always do

[@nunyabusiness9013]

Eagle Works Advanced Propulsion Laboratory has been working on this for a few years now. Ever since the Alcubere paper was published and peer reviewed. It's nice to see they're making progress. Baby steps lead to big breakthroughs. I personally think this is the only way we'll visit an exoplanet in our lifetimes. Very exciting stuff.

[@guycomments]

This video blew my mind like no other. Engineering has a long ways to go, so many problems to solve, so many questions to answer. Seems like the napkin ring design for a gravity glider space ship would be restrictive. Could be why UFOs/UAP are observed to be the shape that they are. A saucer shape, or some otherwise spherical-adjacent shape might help with maneuverability

[@sprootown]

Perhaps the fabric of space time is way more malleable than we currently understand. If travel is possible then the communication traffic of developed civilizations my use these same principles to talk to each other in relatively real time?

[@ollllj]

every time a wild claim is made, ask yourself, if this where true, what else would be VERY different, and why is it not very different.

[@rodfranco4478]

FTL communication would be huge, even if FTL travel were to remain out of reach.

[@jerryadams6799]

well apparently it can be if certain theorists are accurate. Apparently there is actually a constant of the universe dealing with the succeptibility of space time to deformation. it is called the permittivity of space and some guy at NASA thinks it can be altered with EM energy to change the amount of mass energy needed to deform space into bubbles as an example.

[@sprootown]

@@jerryadams6799 That's pretty clever, would you say it's encouraging? I can't believe that we aren't but infants in our understanding of physics and the cosmos.

[@jerryadams6799]

@@sprootown every time someone publishes something new it's wonderful. thats true even if later it gets shot down by subsequent information. every little step leads to new knowledge. in one sense i am not interested in being told something cannot be done or that "The Laws of the Universe" forbids it. I am more interested in how something can be done than ways in which it cannot. But--- even though i am not happy when negative results come in; if the new result is scientifically derived it tells us that that particular avenue is not the one to the goal. so even naysayers serve that goal in spite of themselves in many cases.

[@tops1954]

Hello Anton and this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. If we can actually warp drive, we can visit other stellar systems like the one with aplanet (mini-Neptune) on a polar plane and explain (some) all these space mysteries/phenomena!!!

[@michealray4895]

Is the casimir effect generated by the obstruction of the pathways of virtual particles? I've been trying to understand how virtual particles operate and come in and out of existence. Mind-boggling

[@alexv3357]

Essentially yes. The space between the two plates is narrower than the wavelengths of some virtual particles, which obstructs their appearance, and hence pressure from the outside is observed

[@Gunni1972]

@@alexv3357 How many layers of that would be needed to pull 1 gram? and how much would they weigh?And how would they behave, if a plasma field forms on it. you know, from sped up particles that pass over it?

[@babstra55]

what Alex V said above, but also I'd add that this means casimir effect can never produce negative values. at its extreme, in an infinitely narrow gap where even the shortest wavelengths can fit anymore, there's also nothing to remove anymore. so no negative values can be reached, no space bending. no warp bubble. the bubble they propose is a bubble of slightly less positive pressure than open space, but it's always positive. also because of the nature of casimir effect being caused by the short absolute distance, it can never be scaled up into a bigger version of the bubble.

[@ClarkPotter]

Think of a plane across the surface of boiling water. In that plane it'd look like circles are "coming in and out of existence," when really the fluxuating substrate is simply higher-dimensional. The circles aren't really "coming in and out of existence," they're just manifest in that plane coterminous with that higher-dimensional flux. The manifold underlying physical reality is likely higher-dimensional, Calabi-Yau or some such. What we infer as "quantum foam" in which "virtual particles come in and out of existence," is just the familiar ~4D plane of a much higher dimensional substrate flux. That flux is just like "random" water waves, which under particular conditions like energy gradients, allow self-organization into matter and more.

[@itisimatadvc]

Modern physics is truly amazing, especially considering the effects of quantum mechanics. The more I learn the more I realise that anything is possible we just have to find out how. Breathtaking stuff.

[@brontehauptmann4217]

gravity does not exist never mind gravity waves. people are so fkn stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@frightenedsoul]

@@brontehauptmann4217 does each exclamation point represent one IQ point that you have left?

[@gutzimmumdo4910]

@@frightenedsoul you should probably cut that list in half for that matter.

[@gandalf8216]

One theoretical problem remains: FTL implies time travel, and time travel introduces casual paradoxes which can't exist in our Universe. It also implies actual reversal of entropy, another impossibility. Casual paradoxes means there's an impossible hurdle to overcome down the road, before FTL is actually achieved.

[@ClockworkGearhead]

Wouldn't this also create anti-gravity? I mean, if you can stretch space, wouldn't that mean, at least by math, your distance from gravity wells would be "further" and hence "lessened" because of the inverse square law?

[@_TheDoctor]

Negative energy creates an inverted gravity-well. So yes, it would be anti-gravity.

[@mikethespike056]

@@_TheDoctor me and the Bois using anti-gravity to create a real Halo Ghost (THE COVENANT FOUND US) (GONE WRONG)

[@_TheDoctor]

@@mikethespike056 LMAO

[@timothybayliss6680]

Didn't Tim Curry tell us all how to do this decades ago? Isnt it just a Jump to the left and then a step to the right?

[@lindaseel8633]

Let's do the time warp again! 🤣🤣🤣

[@jables2329]

The same tech that makes a warp bubble could easily be used to create an anti-gravity affect. So they are intrinsically linked.

[@pisscvre69]

this is one of the most exciting implications for me, gravity really does a lot to make our lives harder but with control of it we'd be living much better, for instance, my grandma has had some falls in the past few years and those are a big deal for old people, a broken hip is always a turning point in any elderly persons life, they're never as capable again and worst of all that starts the path to atrophy cuz if you can't do much you can't even maintain what you have and when your old atrophy happens fast, by the time your hip is healed even if it heals perfectly which is highly unlikely at that age you will never be the same again, so an emergency anti gravity system could change everything, with that my grandma would prob still be able to walk without a walker, get her own meals, go for a walk on her own, i know this isn't the supper cool stuff most people think of with this tech but its the most impactful and important ways these things can be used and would really be miraculous

[@tusharsiddharth6658]

I strongly believe that first we will discover gravitons...Then we will learn to make anti gravitons...and then all these warp drives and anti gravity spaceships will be made...this will be the correct order of discoveries....

[@BladeTrain3r]

Antigravity in some kind of practical form would be more potentially groundbreaking than FTL I think. Assuming power consumption could be managed. Single stage re-usable earth-to-orbit vehicles. Imagine how much easier logistics would be if drones could carry tons instead of a few kilos. Hell just think about how it would affect architecture and the viability of massive construction projects. Or how it could be used in underwater construction to reduce water pressure constraints.

[@peaceonearth351]

@@pisscvre69 Yeah, it doesn't take long for ones body to atrophy. I was in a car accident and was bed ridden for about a month and when I started therapy I was just a skeleton. I was only 19, so old or not if one is down for a couple weeks the bodies strength gets drained.

[@pisscvre69]

@@peaceonearth351 oof sorry that happened : c and its insane how fast it happens

[@jeffreycohen2234]

Thank you for the hope, Anton.

[@Lemonidas75]

I saw the article headline today in my news feed and dismissed it as some joke article. When I saw Anton made a video about it I was "WAIT - WHAT?!" .... Incredible things are happening. Incredible.

[@khalid749]

Ha! I actually gave a presentation on this in my verification and validation class for my systems engineering program. Glad to see this being discussed!

[@bobtrambley6210]

Can you do a video sometime on the reasons some scientists believe that Einstein’s theories and quantum physics don’t connect?

[@ritemolawbks8012]

That would require an understanding of introductory General Relativity and Quantum Physics, and most of his audience enjoys videos with more space images and not intense mathematical arguments and laws of physics.

[@ollllj]

others have done this. the problem is that these topics are FAR from layman, and not as much astronomy as this channel.

[@dbohnenberger]

They are both models, each developed to model different things. Remember Feynman's insistence that models don't really explain anything. So if two models "don't connect", that doesn't explain anything either, except to explain the limits of the models.

[@DelandaBaudLacanian]

Sabine Hossenfelder has some excellent videos. I think all scientists acknowledge the two don't connect mathematically, but Sabine Hossenfelder helps highlight the fact that many scientists are fixated on trying to find an elegant single theory that connects the two mathematically, when the reality is our knowledge of mathematics needs to evolve? idk that's my two cents on trying to understand this

[@ritemolawbks8012]

@@DelandaBaudLacanian Good point. I forgot about her videos. I would normally recommend _Science_ _Asylum,_ but for some reason Nick hasn't made a video about the conflict of combining General Relativity with Quantum Physics.

[@IONindustries627]

Me: "Man Science is so cool and amazing!" That other part of Me: "They are going to open a portal to Hell aren't they?"

[@markusa3803]

Maybe we don't see any other civilisations out there because they each annihilated themselves with the first warp drive test.

[@Vecordia]

Some Event Horizon feelings? 😁

[@stevenscott2136]

(loads shotgun, begins playing Doom music)

[@conorcleary733]

Came here for a nice grounded explanation amidst all the hype, cheers!

[@toshiro0o]

The thing is, we don't really know whether the Casimir effect is produced by a negative energy which actually gravitates. There is an alternative explanation for the effect in which the force between the plates is just a Van der Waals type force between the molecules which comprise them. Also, as far as I know, making the plates large enough for actual gravitational effects to be measurable is a bit beyond current experimental possibilities. It reminds me of the thing Penrose talks about regarding whether matter loses its quantum nature when it is large enough to gravitate.

[@thomasschrick1486]

Thank you Anton, as always, very enlightening... I believe that they have physical models that they have been testing for decades. I saw something in 1991 that convinced me the military of some country has a craft capable of astounding maneuvers at incredible speeds. The craft had a military type strobe light

[@robopenguin5501]

There’s also those videos of confirmed UFO’s released by the government, which could show some of the testing

[@robertafettuccine]

@@robopenguin5501 Ah, the videos of birds and things. Yeah, real top sectret stuff. Also you do realise that the phrase "confirmed UFO" doesn't mean anything, right? Confirming that you don't know what something is means nothing at all. It certainly doesn't suggest anything these conspiritards would like to have you believe.

[@Tophatjones358]

Hello!

[@Cliffordlonghead]

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[@gnomeofwar]

@@Cliffordlonghead LOSER BOT

[@Tophatjones358]

@@Cliffordlonghead what the fuck are you talking about

[@mikeuk666]

@@Cliffordlonghead Cliffordlonghead you're just jealous people are talking about the video content instead of attention seeking like you always do so you spam

[@ninjafruitchilled]

I've always been curious how they alcubierre drive worked, relativistically speaking. Does it creates closed timelike curves, i.e. time paradoxes? Or is it instead more of a time dilation deal, e.g. time just passes very slowly inside the bubble so that you can travel many light years in seconds (but external observers will still just see you chugging along at the speed of light or so)? I mean the latter case can be achieved just in special relativity by going close to c, so I'm not sure what benefit there is to doing it by bending space instead? But then that leaves the time paradox option which is probably just impossible.

[@NexAngelus405]

It warps spacetime, contracting the space in front of the ship and expanding the space behind it. Spacetime around the ship is moving, not the ship itself so time dilation does not occur for the occupants inside.

[@ninjafruitchilled]

@@NexAngelus405 That doesn't really answer the question. What does the motion of the ship look like to external observers? As far as I remember my General Relativity, it cannot possibly look faster than light without creating the possibility of time paradoxes. GR does potentially admit solutions like that, as in the case of wormholes, though whether they are physically possible is a different story. Anyway if you say no time dilation occurs then I believe time paradoxes must be possible. I'd like to see something authoritative that confirms this though.

[@desolane900]

@@ninjafruitchilled I believe the object doesn't look different at all aside from redshifting in either direction? That's how we view other galaxies that have space expand between us and them.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

There is no time paradox.

[@ninjafruitchilled]

@@desolane900 I mean what is the apparent velocity as perceived by external observers

[@3rdEYE_wise]

Bob Lazar have worked with such exotic matter. They called it Element 115. They first synthesized the exotic matter element 115 in 2003 and added to the Periodic Table in 2015 and called it Moscovium 115 (Mc 115 (288)) with an atomic weight of (288). This is no accident or coincidence.

[@connormudie3870]

Element 115 has been synthesised in labs but no stable isotopes have so far been created by man, to my knowledge. Only extracted from foreign spacecraft. The synthesis of stable 115 is ESSENTIAL in the development of our civilisation

[@magneticsyndrome]

I remember an episode of Futurama, the professor explains his ship can travel faster then the speed of light because they use space to move around the ship, not actually move at the speed of light. haha, love it

[@simonlopes4301]

Now that I am convinced advanced civilisations have visited us I know these technologies are totally possible. Amazing

[@Godakuri]

Take your meds bud, aliens didn't visit us

[@_John_P]

@@Godakuri You have to prove the negative

[@EpicMiniMeatwad]

He's right, you know. Aliens called Humans that inhabit the planet Earth have indeed visited us before. Mind blowing.

[@TheErichos]

@@Godakuri Clear proof now exists in abundance of the existence of ufo's. Those are clearly not man made. Although they seem to hide in the sea it's unlikely that they are earth creatures. They seem to have mastered the topic explained here in the video. They pass through water without causing water displacement, like a knife

[@Godakuri]

@@TheErichos Take your meds

[@jappperon7012]

awesome, but i still have a personal fondness for "the Nuclear lightbulb" if you ever get around to it i would love to see what information you find on it that i havent read.

[@toddpeterson5904]

Would a ship in the bubble be subject to the contours of space-time, such as gravity wells around celestial bodies? Going FTL, how would it be possible to navigate to avoid them?

[@jerrys4841]

We'll just have wait until the "Zefram Cochrane" of our reality appears.

[@WingofTech]

You’re the best Anton. You deserve every Patron. 💛🖖

[@sonofamortician]

read the paper by Erik Lentz also, suggested some improvements which makes it far more plausible.

[@haruruben]

I wonder if you could use this concept to transmit data. You can fit a lot of data on a few microns, even if it’s going to be impractical to make a big warp bubble could still be useful if you can get a tiny bubble to work Uh oh… this could be interesting… still a long way away from anything real.

[@iliaadamanthark8336]

Yeah, if only we have some way to shoot those bubble and receive it

[@haruruben]

@@iliaadamanthark8336 why would you need to shoot them?

[@iliaadamanthark8336]

@@haruruben that's how warp bubble concept works I think. Because object will be carried by the warp bubble through space time in Order to transport them from one place to another. Then if you want to transfer/carry data, you should carry the wrap bubble through space time as well. The difference is, when you carrying data, you just need to send small sized wrap bubble, bit by bit.

[@haruruben]

@@iliaadamanthark8336 oh I guess I wasn’t sure what was meant by “shoot”

[@DneilB007]

If this discovery could be used to create a warp bubble, then it could possibly also be used to create hypercubes. As someone else below pointed out, FTL travel does, by definition, imply time travel as well. And, as we all know, hypercubes + FTL + time travel = a TARDIS. So, yeah.

[@ollllj]

no clue where your hypercubes even matter.

[@GlenHunt]

I've never watched Dr. What.

[@808bigisland]

Warp FTL. The bubble warps space in front of you. Your original frame of reference is kept. No time travel backwards. Just the regular timetravel forwards. So Warp 1 is lightspeed, Warp 2 is 100x the speed of light, etc. Travelling to Mars would take 8 mins at Warp 1. Warp 2 takes 48 ms.

[@redburningfires]

This reminds me of the Dune series where they practiced "folding space" to travel to distant systems. Very interesting.

[@mikecronan550]

Element 115, dilithium crystals, deuterium and anti deuterium with the appropriate confinement field, all used in the proper configuration will give you the warp field you're looking for. BUT you'll also need a quantum deflector array, artificial gravity, structural integrity force field and a quantum super computer to pull it all off!

[@farrukhazfar6185]

Very clearly presented Anton - thanks

[@thomastmc]

It was impossible to travel across the seas, then it was impossible to travel to the bottom of the seas, then it was impossible to travel to the Moon... .... and then we traveled between the galaxies.

[@tim40gabby25]

There is the risk of overextension with this argument.

[@Foolish188]

Not yet.

[@tim40gabby25]

@@Foolish188 Sobering to think maybe not ever. Mind, there's a lot going on in ours.

[@thomastmc]

@@tim40gabby25 If history predicts the future, the real risk is that we underextend in our notions of what nature suggests is possible with a hubristic lack of imagination.

[@tim40gabby25]

@@thomastmc I rather like Russell's 'The poverty of historicism'. I think we're like learner drivers speeding down an unknown motorway, using confidently the rear view mirror as guidance - as motorways are always straight, they say :)

[@TechMasterRus]

Micron sized things are very well-known in microelectronics. If something like this was possible, we would have noticed it long time ago.

[@spacemanspiff7283]

not necessarily. The casimer effect requires 2 really thin plates extremely close and for a sensor sensitive enough to detect it.

[@808bigisland]

Not really. The engineers try to avoid the Casmir effect.

[@victormartins8654]

username doesn't checks out

[@Hykje]

"Airplane you say -ha -if flying was possible someone would have done it a long time ago."

[@808bigisland]

@@Hykje The wheel will never catch on.

[@PlanetParasite]

DARPA would absolutely LOVE to weaponize this tech.. like a light-speed kinetic payload.

[@Dinofaustivoro]

Metal Gear?

[@joey2789]

Sure if you wanted to blow up a planet or a star

[@54l68l65l20l47l61l6D]

The meta of the future is already going to be space-based asteroid launchers. Very cheap and easy to nudge a nation-ending rock out of orbit and let it tumble down the gravity well to fall on the heads of your enemies.

[@Nihilist_Waltz]

Hey I finally learned something useful from gaming. I've heard of the Casimir effects befor in BO1 zombies on the map Ascension.

[@TheBowersj]

Casimir effect if understood completly could be used as a free energy replacement to reaction wheels. If a rudimentary casimir rudder were constructed it could be combined with solar sailing to steer and maneuver a spacecraft towards the sun and align the sails to pick up maximum photon potentials. On the otherhand vacuum energy is a force generated by the casimir effect that may as well be used in cubesats in interstellar space which would experience massive amounts of interstellar pressure on the outside of the plates, this force would need to be converted into electricity and then power a laser which over time would thrust the cubesat.

[@Dan-ud8hz]

Theoretically physically possible, definitely logistically impossible

[@juzoli]

So far, only mathematically possible, and not physically…

[@trueconspiracies7945]

Leave it to those creative engineers who are working on all those crashed UFO/UAVs. 😀

[@RGJDragon]

the more we learn about the possibilities of warp drives the more I think that the answer to the mass/energy problem as well as inertia dampening and creating that protective bubble around the craft can all be achieved through better understanding of electromagnetism and fusion. While staying within the parameters of acceptable physics and obeying all of the established laws, once we figure out how to harness and control the output of fusion(maybe through strong EMF tech) we can then expand that tech to apply to the craft as a whole. The missing factor in all of these theories though is Navigation. How do we achieve the computational calculations needed once the drive is achieved to securely travel vast distances without pulverizing ourselves on any matter between point A and point B. If we start planning based on the assumption that warp is possible and just a matter of time, there plenty of problems related to making it work aside from the actual engine/craft that we can maybe start solving now which might be several orders of magnitude more achievable with current science/tech and may lead to further advancement in the field.

[@barnaliadhikary9421]

His voice & way of narration.... unique

[@hrvojegrgic5111]

Great news. And I am glad I first heard about it here on the channel. Thank you.

[@thomasgeorgecastleberry6918]

I had a wall in a house I owned in the past that got "wet" because the roof was on the Fritz and the wood warped, no bubbles were involved. Then again Lawrence Welk was big on bubbles, so was that Hawaiian singer Don Ho who as you know sang "Tiny Bubbles," a famous song.

[@Clorox-enjoyer]

Breakthroughs in science like this gives me faith in humanity's future.

[@continentalgin]

Wow! Thanks for this news, Anton!

[@SeedlingNL]

One side effect of the Alcubierre warp bubble is that the inside of the bubble is much like a black hole: time is dilated. Basically, the passengers wouldn't age more then a few weeks, but hundreds of years could pass on the outside of the bubble. It'll allow mankind to explore the stars, but not look back...

[@user-wy4mp9ts3u]

There is talk about an experiment that can prove if the casimir effect really does create negative energy.Basically a beam of light is caused to shoot between the plates and if the light refracts in such a way that it proves that the energy density between the plates is less that will prove that there is a very weak warp bubble between the plates.

[@laurentbenard715]

Hey Anton! So interesting as all the time!!!

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

Anton, I know you're a perfectionist but some of us like most would like like to see the flubs/bloopers plz

[@never2bknown904]

Ejecting Hydrogen-7 out of a fusion engine/particle accelerator can power a station and propel it by shedding neutrons. I can rough model it but don't have the billion dollars. That instant decay is gold.

[@Rawi888]

Is it strange that I legitimately love anton ?

[@ahmetmutlu348]

I think anyway it may be possible to go different places faster then light as some theories indicate...ie transferring mas/data tough dimessions that in 3d may be far away from us but from differen dimessions/perspectives thing may not be that far away. Which some parts of string theory indicates that kind of mechanics are possible.

[@tonypapay]

Thanks for giving is both sides why it could or can’t

[@Bloggerbear]

Thank you, Anton. You're a wonderfull person too

[@yobigbobhere538]

Oh man, so exciting! Can't wait to see you talk about this in future videos!

[@ianfromspace4740]

Hello wonderful Anton, this is person! 1 MILLION GOGOGOGO!

[@userJohnSmith]

Saw this a few days ago on a science website. Thanks for diving deepn as always.