Will We Ever Have a Warp Drive?

[@Fallen7Pie]

We're getting to the point where I question weather Simon even knows how many channels he has and what they're for

[@garros]

Yes, he's going to need a TV Guide channel soon that just lists what is currently new on each channel.

[@c4t4r4c]

@@garros that is actually not a bad idea

[@TheMagusOfTheMagnaCarta]

His channel list is as long as his beard...

[@Fallen7Pie]

@@TheMagusOfTheMagnaCarta If his beard were that long he would pass for a member of ZZ Top

[@operatorhoot470]

I think they keep forgetting the passwords to the channels, so they have to create new channels again and again

[@santiagohuerta9996]

It would be funny if you take 1000s of years getting to the nearest star and almost get there and then a faster-than-light human ship passes you up

[@robindude8187]

I believe Ray Bradbury effectively wrote this story decades ago. I've _heard of_ this basic story before, but can't be sure of either the author or the story name.

[@govcorpwatch]

OK. It already exists. #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@slaanax9119]

@@robindude8187 Harry Turtledove did this part of the story where aliens invaded during ww2.

[@esaedvik]

Elite Dangerous has some sad stories about Generation ships that had no FTL drives. The very small amount of lore the game has in general, but interesting nonetheless. All of the stories are on YT though.

[@nullbeyondo]

*You people have no understanding of the speed of light or general relativity whatsoever.* Anyone travelling close to the speed of light has the power to reach the end of the observable universe if they wanted; time on Earth is the one that's going to go pass thousands of years, but not for the starship. Warp Travel at warp 1 is 100% the speed of light, spacetime doesn't contract, your motion is solved classically, time doesn't dilate. Physical Travel at ~0.99 is ~99% of the speed of light, spacetime contracts, your motion is solved relatively, you could reach any place in the universe infinitely easier than warp 0.9 with the catch that time dilates.

[@willmfrank]

"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a truly remarkable book. The introduction starts like this: 'Space,' it says, 'is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen...' And so on. -- Douglas Adams

[@PassiveSmoking]

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.

[@SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish.]

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reasons.”

[@willmfrank]

"The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a few seconds, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace...."

[@yourhandlehere1]

Check out "The Flying Sorcerers".

[@PassiveSmoking]

@@willmfrank The Bistromathic drive is a wonderful new method of crossing interstellar distances in a few seconds, without all that dangerous mucking around with probability factors...

[@timacrow]

Simon is using a warp drive to manipulate time so he can post awesome content to all of his channels each week. This is going to catch up to him and he will be 75 years old by the end of the year. But we will still love him.

[@jordansimpson3553]

I think if Simon creates anymore channels, they're all going to collapse into a mega black hole and pull the whole universe to us.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

The Simongularity

[@wwjnz9263]

If that fixes KZbin's BS algorithm that keeps showing me channels I'm not interested in, then it is a welcome change.

[@themotorcyclemasswhole]

😂😂😂😂

[@dingusdingus2152]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan how dare you

[@rafsan1578]

and that black whole will be used to contract the space-time in font of the wrap- drive😂

[@williamcastillo2312]

Only 3 things are infinite: human stupidity, outer space and the number of KZbin channels Simon has.

[@BJETNT]

Now that was funny! We will never see FTL because the human race will not stay together and civilized long enough to achieve it!!!

[@GiRR007]

@@BJETNT dont need to be together to make ftl haven't been together for literally every other development weve made 😄😄

[@shades9723]

😂😅

[@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307]

Cant go as fast as light will never go faster! Unless some one invents god magics! LOL

[@badluck5647]

...and I'm not ever sure of the infinity of space

[@michaelhearson]

Simon is the equivalent to a KZbin host Swiss Army Knife, basically he can host every known channel and still do it all. Thanks for sharing. I love this new channel, been a huge fan of Simon for a few years. Always love his witty, factual and blunt tutorials. Especially with science fiction. Good luck with the new channel. Stay safe.😁👍🖖❤👽👽🤓

[@unarealtaragionevole]

I often wonder if we have the correct perspective about FTL. The one thing that Star Trek understood and got correct about warp speed is that it's not fast enough. Warping space and time to go C is great...but we need to go thousands of times faster than C just to sort of trek a little section of our own galaxy....let alone beyond.

[@bamikroket]

Star Trek ships do go faster than thousands of times C though. It's just that our galaxy is so damn big. The USS Voyager's top speed is stated as roughly 5100 C, although not for a longer time. (Like always keeping the revs of your Ferrari in the red).

[@unarealtaragionevole]

@@bamikroket That's what I am saying. I don't know about Voyager and Prometheus, or anything really later than the 24th to be honest...but even with the ability to go 1500 C....or Voyager's 3000 C....their ability was limited to only being able to travel to small sections of our own galaxy, let alone the universe. So without their magical tech it's almost impossible in my opinion. I mean even this Alcubierre warp drive only allows for a chance to travel at, or near C. Even in the best math, it can only reach C. And it doesn't tell us how to do it, just that it can be done. Now I'm actually an optimist here. I really am, but there's more than math needed to be considered. I mean the one thing warp enthusiasts always forget is that while a warp field warps space and time and allows us the ability, we still have to go fast enough the old fashioned way...we would need extremely fast thrust (engines) to push us fast enough to maximize the warp effect and we just don't have the engines able to do that yet. I saw one guy demonstrate that even with Alcubierre's field....our current chemical propellants would limit us to like .5 or .75 C cause we just can't can't push ourselves fast enough yet. And what good is going that fast if once we are out of the field we are limited by normal space and time again? I mean we could coast to our final destination, yes...but then we have to waste a lot of fuel to slow down again. So it's not like we are really free from the fuel burdens of space travel.

[@govcorpwatch]

OK. already happened... #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

Precisely. I have been trying to explain to a friend of mine that because of the distances involved, we are simply not going to encounter another intelligent race out there. He doesn't grasp just how much it would be almost impossible to FIND anyone out there.

[@nutbastard]

@@scottdoesntmatter4409 Our best chance of encountering alien civilizations would be if any of them in our galaxy have sent Von Neumann probes very, very long ago, and that's assuming their tech is self replicating and basically flawless. Still, operating at under C, communications could take anywhere from a few years to ~70,000 years one way. With enough probes relaying, we don't have to worry about line of sight, but still, it's about 70,000 light years from here to the farthest systems in our galaxy. On the other hand, that doesn't preclude previous contact or possible gifting of technology or knowledge. At just 0.01C it would only take ~10 million years to probe every system, and from there, communication would only be limited by light speed, so we get back to the 70,000 years figure, give or take, for one way comms between here and the farthest systems in the Milky Way. It's not out of the realm of possibility, but unless they are already here, I do concede that you and I will not know intelligent alien life. The timing would have to be near perfect, with a civilization that started such a project at least a million years ago. And that's assuming they'd even want to talk to us, or that they even have a concept of language that's even remotely compatible with ours. If they are here, or their probes are, I suspect that our level of tech makes us just two tiers above bacteria, and so Earth is a Zoo Planet. And like bacteria, we're great for studying, but not much for conversation.

[@iainballas]

Never even heard of this channel XD ... as long as Simon's got good researchers, I'd love to hear him present science topics more often! Especially in his 'energetic' style.

[@carpediemarts705]

He makes a new channel every couple of months!

[@govcorpwatch]

OK. #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@JeffOnhill]

@@carpediemarts705 a new channel? Does he upload to all of them?

[@iainballas]

@@JeffOnhill Unless a channel doesn't hit certain milestones. He's a businessman, but keeps a keen eye on what his long-time customers want.

[@charlesjmouse]

...and so Simon's scheme to take over KZbin one new channel at a time continues. I'm ok with that.

[@LittleBallOfPurr]

3:32 That sure brought back nostalgia of the good old, script slapping, paper abuse from the Business Blaze days...

[@Nothingness00000-o]

As a Stargate fan, I'm familiar with the wormhole effect between the gates. I understand that it's totally fiction. (Still, a great show❤️). Some think that a blackhole could be a 'instantaneous form of travel whether time, space or parallel universe's. But again, impossible for us humans or anything with a physical mass.

[@jackl4laughs]

Impossible unless we find a way to manipulate mass/time/space inside of a controlled area. I have to think we may get there if we don't kill each other first.

[@sergeyshevchenko1567]

Of course, because unspaghettification is not possible.

[@housetheunstoppablessed4846]

Stargate doesn't necessarily make you an expert on wormholes. They are only fiction in the way that the technology required to build them is way beyond our capabilities. It may all well be very possible to travel through once new physics are discovered. But again such technology is well beyond our lifetimes.

[@Burgo361]

Time dilation could be an interesting explanation as to why we've never seen an advanced civilization, they may not bother to visit a world until they are sure that it's people will still be there when they arrive.

[@myjdogz]

I never considered that but it sounds right, even if we say found evidence of an alien civilization at some Star it would mean that evidence is probably millions of years old so who knows if they would even be alive

[@dalehartley2821]

Fermi Paradox proposes a solid explanation.

[@CashelOConnolly]

This isn’t Star Trek 🙄 Teach yourself some science

[@QBCPerdition]

Well, the longer they wait, the less likely it is. Sort of like waiting to get your ice cream until you know it won't melt before you get there.

[@garros]

Or maybe warp technology is the trap technology that serves as the 'great filter' and completely destroys the civilisation the achieves it! lol Yay!

[@piperdude82]

Great video! I’m a big consumer of pop-science, so I didn’t think your video would tell me anything I didn’t already know, but I was pleasantly surprised!

[@govcorpwatch]

We are already living in "the future"... it's just that "they" aren't telling us. #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@JetsBauer]

Just make a tiny black hole in front of the ship hanging from a stick, duct taped to the windshield.Bam, instant light speed, you're welcome scientists...

[@esquilax5563]

Check out Isaac Arthur's videos on black hole powered starships. Basically this, but real

[@govcorpwatch]

OK. already happened... frequency and resonance. #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Not to burst your bubble, but a black hole small enough to hang from a stick (haha very funny 😆 ), is in the process of evaporating extremely fast. The radiation from it would vaporize everything in the vicinity and turn it into a tiny accretion disc which then is devoured by the black hole, which slows down the shrinking of the black hole but not the hawking radiation, which is still ever increasing.

[@joshuahadams]

The Tal Shiar might not be happy with you leaking the secrets of the D’Deridex Warbird.

[@WokeAFMillennial]

Some Rick and Morty shit right there!

[@warren286]

One thing people forget, but as inertial mass goes to infinity, so too does your gravity. Breaking the light barrier would generate a black hole.

[@Loralanthalas]

Ha. What is truely happening to everyone who figures out how to time travel ✴️⚫️

[@alomejorqueno]

No, you don't turn into a black hole. It is simply impossible to get enough energy to go faster even if you converted all the matter in the universe into energy to push you. There is no universal frame of reference, from the perspective of a Cosmic ray, the earth is moving at near light speed and does not collapse since inertial mass is not mass

[@Sicarius125]

I can’t believe it took me more than a year to find the sassiest Simon channel of them all 😏

[@steelrain79]

"Einstein ruined everything like a dick" I spit my coffee out.🤣

[@scottmantooth8785]

*just have to remember not to annoy the aliens by having the turn signal blinking after making that left turn around one of the moons of the system as you use it as a gravity assist whilst navigating their system*

[@stephenmcbride6359]

The problem with creating your own wormhole with this drive is not creating the wormhole. It's being able to aim it and place it where you want it. Having a wormhole end up just where ever it wants to, means you'd never get where you want to go and never be able to get back. You'd be just like Sam Beckett in Quantum leap, or the guys in Sliders.

[@abseiduk]

Let's try to find a wormhole and we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

[@stephenmcbride6359]

@@abseiduk The comment was about creating a wormhole, not finding one. Then once we do that, we can cross that bridge(lol).

[@karotts]

I am thinking quantum entanglement?

[@davidfreeman5966]

My understanding was that warp drives are -not- wormholes. They stretch and compress space time in front of and behind the vessel but they do not effectively create a link between two points in space by folding space in half. I've always had a different mental picture of a wormhole being a spot where you leave our universe at one point and re-enter it at another by tearing a hole right through the fabric of the universe. The bit about folding the paper in half just represents the two points are connected. The "folded spacetime" from inside our universe wouldn't appear any different because the dimension on which it's being folded isn't one we can interact with at any meaningful level.

[@Loralanthalas]

See: Entanglement

[@yourhandlehere1]

When I was young, (I watched the moon landing) I was thinking about a way for astronauts to get around a space station or ship. I came up with a powered chair with joystick controls for the propulsion and steering. Still have the drawing somewhere. Then one day I see THIS thingy 0:52 in a photograph being tested. Dang it! Don't remember where I was when I drew it but it's spies I tell ya. Spies.

[@davidshoyt1979]

dont feel too bad. When i was 8 I came up with a bussard ramscoop only to find out when I was 11 that someone named Bussard had already come up with the idea.

[@FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube]

This is a fairly good breakdown and I think we need to make proper list of the unknown such as all the ways light interacts for example. Because we can change its orientation in a number of ways which of course is not just a wave, because saying that suggests that all substances are not ultimately very similar.

[@wtfpwnz0red]

They've actually refined the math of the Alcubiere drive. Originally such a drive became mathematically possible using the whole mass of the known universe as fuel. Then they optimized enough that it could be done with the mass of the galaxy. Most recently (afaik) they've optimized to the point that it's theoretically possible to work using the mass of Jupiter as fuel. Keep in mind these are "ideal" matter/antimatter annihilation engines, where 100% of the fuel's mass could be converted to energy. In the real (non theoretical) world, things aren't so optimal. Still encouraging that this is something people are working on and finding ways to make more plausible over time.

[@jonchedgy6654]

Okay, less energy - but AFAIK it still requires matter with a negative mass. Something mathematically possible but almost certainly impossible, "waiter please bring me a glass with a negative amount of water in it!" That said we should be able to get up to 10-20% of lightspeed which means ships would take decades to get to the nearest stars, not thousands of years as Simon claims.

[@Michael75579]

@@jonchedgy6654 The StarShot program would give us probes which would travel at 15-20% of light speed and doesn't require huge technological advances to realise. It's currently beyond our abilities, but it's in the plausible-near-future-tech realm.

[@bobleece4152]

They now have the energy requirement down to the size of a satellite. Also. You no longer need exotic energy, regular matter will do.

[@Hellserch]

Talk about unforeseen consequences. Look at the mess we’ve made of this little biosphere. Imagine the havoc we could cause if we could manipulate the mass of galaxies? Only a profits driven system could countenance doing that. It’s so entitled it doesn’t deserve serious thought.

[@clarenceorozco5300]

​@@HellserchWhy is it entitled?....

[@brucetownsend691]

Warp Drive is just a plot device to make interstellar travel plausible. Apart from the lack of any source for the unfathomably vast amount of energy that would be needed to warp space time, no one is putting forward any mechanism for how to make such an engine or control the warp. It’s a case of any magical idea can be dressed up as “advanced technology.”

[@michael_r]

I suspect there was a lack of sci fi stories involving other galaxies before the theory of relativity because the fact that there are other galaxies wasn’t discovered until years after that theory was published.

[@CaptainBadNews]

The theoretical warp drive that was described is exactly how the planet express ship works in Futurama!

[@WEPayne]

Simon ye done good! Being an Aerospace Engineer, I almost passed this one up due to technical subject an assuming you'd botch it, but was pleasantly surprised. Kudos for entertaining and spot-on explanations of inertial mass and time dilation. Suppose for entertainment value consideration of that ludicrous Alcubierre drive was mandatory. BTW the speed of light is infinite, at least in terms of "proper time" experienced by the traveler, just leave your mass at home. If we went at speed of light to Beta Pictoris, enjoyed a leisurely 2 hr lunch, and returned, for us the entire trip took just 2 hr. We return to find our friends 127 years older, that's their own fault for not joining us at lunch. Also this always bugged me bout Star Trek. So they whiz off a couple hundred light years in a few days, but for the Federation an all those not aboard time still passes normally. The ones who sent them wouldn't be on the other end of "subspace" call, they would be dead and forgotten, the Federation may no longer exist, the civilization itself may be extinct. But. Like Alcubierre, Sci Fi can afford to disregard inconvenient things like reality. Cheers !

[@WilliamOPearce]

Star Trek ignored time-dilation effects. And simply assumed a trip taking 2 hours out. And 2 hours traveling back would mean a 4 hours travel time. It kept the "Plot-Points" from being hopelessly muddled. Especially when the travel time was just ignored in all the series.

[@STSWB5SG1FAN]

@@WilliamOPearce Only ignored until they absolutely HAD to do time travel (ST4😏).

[@BiscuitLazers44]

Great summary video. Only issue is at the very end, where you say that time dilation would cause you to travel beyond the lives of your loved ones. This only happens when traveling the speed of light conventionally, and not when using a warp drive. Since the warp drive would be bending spacetime, rather than traveling through it, no issues of time dilation would occur, as technically the object within the warp bubble is not moving at all.

[@Fsudryden]

Yes, it will take awhile to work out and find out how to give the ship enough power to create the functional warp bubble. There are other scientists working on a lot of the problems you spoke about. Someone has already created an electromagnetic generator that would repel protons etc. much like the ram scoop on the front of Star Trek Star ships.

[@Manuqtix.Manuqtix]

The questions that make warp drive impossible is -how will you steer? -how will you stop? -how do you control the speed or know how fast you’re going? -where will you get the energy to start warp? -will the warp not eradicate you and your space ship?

[@paulwoodford1984]

The tech has been suppressed

[@WokeAFMillennial]

Also, what about any debris at all making contact with the ship at FTL travel? "Wow, we made it 1,000 lightyears, but Johnny has 2,645,988 holes in his body and the ship is destroyed.." We don't know what Dark Matter is, but maybe we find out what it does with FTL technology. What if dark matter just rips apart everything that travels at that ludicrous speed? It would serve as the universe's fermi paradox for all life.

[@Manuqtix.Manuqtix]

@@WokeAFMillennial our problems don’t end there. We’re at the brink of a 3rd world war with Ukraine and China threatening to invade Taiwan I don’t think we’d survive to come up with technology to explore the universe.

[@martinmarcos5340]

I know the answer for one of those. You don´t steer. You set up a course and you go all the way in a straight line. If you need to change course, you stop, you steer, and you warp again. In The Orville this is very common.

[@Slaphappy1975]

Another channel from Simon! And one that really hits the mark with me 👍

[@erbenton07]

I'd be happy to see some kind of drive that managed to safely reach 10 or 20% of the speed of light. It would make travel within the solar system much more practical.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

At such speeds , a grain of sand already packs enough punch to go through even the toughest armor we could in all practicality mount on the space ship. The chances of encountering a single one of those grains is nearly 100% for each ship that transits from Earth to Mars. We're going to need something super advanced capable of deflecting such debris from the path of the spaceship, it's the only way. And the science to realize something like that does not exist yet. The only natural protection we possibly have is the lorentz contraction which happens to both objects, stationary and moving (equivalence principle in relativity). To the local frame the incoming debris looks contracted but our ship has also contracted for the distant observer (the stationary debris), and so the density of both is increased. I don't know how that relates to the strenght of both objects and if this could be used to create more effective armor against impacts.

[@jpbernier4196]

For a long time people thought that flying or going faster then the speed of sound was not possible till technology made it possible. So maybe in the future it could be achieved.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

some people even thought typing at 60 wpm would be impossible, but then jaques cousteau came up with SCUBA.

[@Michael75579]

Yeah, but this was purely a technical limitation, not an extensively-tested law of physics. They might not have been able to build a supersonic plane, but they understood that if they had an engine with a sufficiently good thrust-to-weight ratio and a body shell that could hold together under the stresses then supersonic flight would be possible. Faster-than-light travel requires new physics, not just improved technology.

[@govcorpwatch]

NASA already has the tech. Not fiction. Classified. OK. already happened... #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@richardlahan7068]

Physicists are working now to see how feasible a warp drive system would be and what type of system would be the most feasible.

[@hoarder66]

"How Einstein ruined everything, like a dick" That had me actually laugh out loud

[@PeterKnagge]

He only ruined his cousins, and daughter... Ew!😐

[@PeterKnagge]

@rptrm82 he was an agnostic Spinozist, with secular Jewish parents My comment went overboard, but I was attempting to deflate some of the 🐎💩 that Einstein also disapproved of... I am just a man!

[@Dwarficus]

A ship with no mass, a crew with no mass... Hum... Hologram ship and crew... Smeg, where have I seen this before?

[@bujin1977]

It always surprises me just how many big theories and discoveries seem to start at Cardiff University. I don't remember it being a particularly big or important uni when I was there! (I studied astrophysics there the year after Alcubierre's PhD study.)

[@HarryNicNicholas]

you're commenting from the moon i take it?

[@govcorpwatch]

OK. already discovered. #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@simpsonfan272]

I bet they're all Doctor Who fans since it's filmed in Cardiff lol

[@jeffmeredith9094]

Nothing is impossible...one day we'll go from earth to Pluto in a day.

[@StephenJohnson-jb7xe]

My admittedly limited knowledge of physics leads me to believe that the energy involved in warping space (if it is even possible) would most likely create conditions not survivable.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

My admittedly limited knowledge of physics leads me to believe that the energy involved in warping space (if it is even possible) would most likely create conditions where we could wake up in andromeda. touche.

[@StephenJohnson-jb7xe]

@@HarryNicNicholas I would love to hear your explanation of the physics that lead to your comment.

[@zakacat5320]

This is my fav channel. The editing is so creative and amusing.

[@fatlarry3623]

the best of the channels you host in, just have a laugh really

[@LeoH3L1]

How wormholes work.... 1) Take piece of paper. 2) Fold piece of paper 3) Accidentally stab your hand with your pen. 4) Quicky travel from your home to hospital.

[@kght222]

warp drive actually avoids most time dilation, you aren't actually accelerating, space is moving around you so the effect wouldn't be any different than what is already experienced when folk go to space today. and yes the effect is measurable, gps satellites back at the start weren't compensating for it causing serious issues for the accuracy of the early system. the main problem is that moving ftl in any way might break causality, aka going backwards in time.

[@cleanerben9636]

the backwards in time stuff makes absolutely no sense to me. Like certain galactic jets moving faster than light from our perspective when really they aren't.

[@chitster]

@@cleanerben9636 when it's reported that the jets from the pulsars are going ftl the reason is that it's moving faster than light can through it as it is a thick medium to move through, like it's harder to swim through honey than water but if it's on a hill the honey can move faster than you can thought it. This in turn causes cherenkov radiation that looks like a brilliant blue light

[@dbskyguy]

Time dilation isn't a feature of motion, it's the difference of time between two or more moving reference frames. Since the speed of light is the same in all reference frames, time must be different. In other words, if it takes 3 years in a ship to travel 30ly with a relativistic velocity, it still takes 30+ years for the ship to arrive from the perspective of an earth-bound reference frame regardless of how you get there. If this was not true, information about the future could arrive in the past creating an information resonance feedback loop.

[@kght222]

@@dbskyguy kinda what i was talking about with it maybe breaking causality. but in the instance of warp drive you don't ever change reference frames from your perspective, or really from someone else's. makes for some weird problems. notice the relativistic velocity part, it has to do with movement, but you aren't moving. space is changing.

[@dbskyguy]

​@@kght222 Please understand this response is not meant to be an attack, but rather an explanation of why time dilation must still exist under a hypothetical warp-drive propulsion system, including a negative-energy pressure-gradient space-time warp-bubble where the space containing an object is propelled. It does not change the fact that a ship - inside the warp bubble - is still an independent inertial reference frame with its own clock moving away from some origin point at a significant speed. The ship may not need to move in the occupied space, but the space is moving, carrying the ship on a wave, and therefore a time dilation occurs between a pilot in the ship and an observer witnessing her speed away under a warp-drive propulsion. Time moves normally inside both reference frames because the speed of light is constant, but comparatively slower when observed by the other (either one) over their changing distance. An inertial reference frame is an enclosed system where the pilot, her lunch, her radio, her clock, her spaceship, and her space inside a warp bubble are all not moving in relationship to each other, or rather they are all moving together at the same velocity, or even under the same acceleration. But an observer in another ship (outside of the warp field) is in a separate inertial reference frame in which the observer, his clock, and his ship are also moving together. With one ship under warp drive, both of these frames are moving away from each other, and their clocks tick at different rates as their distance increases. It does not matter which ship is using the warp drive, they are both receding away and both with an observed slower clock. If you were a passenger on one of the ships, and not in control of the drive system, you would not be able to tell which ship has the warp drive (in the case of constant velocity). When [if] these ships meet up again and share a reference frame, and a beer, the time showing on their clocks will be different, a biproduct of time dilation. -This is only a thought experiment, of course.

[@olli_k]

I remember reading about a story idea where two planets were at war but it took over 100 years to travel between the two. One planet amassed a huge army to travel to the other world and conquer it. While this army was in stasis for the 100+ year journey, their home planet discovered a way to travel to the other planet in just 10 years. Within 50 years they had made peace with the planet and established good relations with the other planet. But they forgot about the army that was on its way to destroy their "enemy".

[@WokeAFMillennial]

Silly they learned a new language and forgot their home language on the journey too.

[@brendanthompson1826]

Sorry Simon, the "Warp Drive" idea does not result in time dilation; the traveller does not go near light speed. Space is warped AROUND the traveller such that Space moves while the traveller stays still. Space itself is not subject to light speed. There were a few other dodgy descriptions in this as well. Over all though I liked the video, hiccoughs and all.

[@toddjohnson7572]

I disagree on the time dilation thing. If I suddenly appeared at the nearest star 4.5 light years away, no matter the means in how I got there -- I wouldn't age (because as I said, it was instant). But if we had a Monsterous massive telescope to see me on the planet out there waving my hands, you'd have to wait 4.5 years to see me waving my hand. Doing the warp drive, it doesn't mean you're going the speed of light (or faster). Obviously you getting from point A to point B in the universe wouldn't break the speed limit for mass -- but of course it doesn't mean you'd automatically go the speed of light by merely warping space around you. That said, if you could make said warp drive make you get from point A to point B faster than the speed of light traversing from point A to B -- you'd be going back in time. If I magically just appeared at the nearest star's planet of choice -- I would have traversed at the speed of light. If you somehow could traverse the speed of light (mass can't, but let's just say) -- all you could do is aim your ship to the direction you want to go, and you'd *instantly* appear at the first thing that you smash into that stops ya. Not 1ms, not one fraction of a nanosecond, but just magically appear. That's what happens to the light beam. You couldn't control your speed. It's all instant. Going Faster than Instant would be going back in time.

[@paulgallagher4]

There should be no time dilation. The Wikipedia article has a good explanation. The Alcubierre metric defines the warp-drive spacetime. It is a Lorentzian manifold that, if interpreted in the context of general relativity, allows a warp bubble to appear in previously flat spacetime and move away effectively faster than lightspeed. The interior of the bubble is an inertial reference frame and inhabitants suffer no proper acceleration. This method of transport does not involve objects in motion at speeds faster than light with respect to the contents of the warp bubble; that is, a light beam within the warp bubble would still always move faster than the ship. Because objects within the bubble are not moving (locally) faster than light, the mathematical formulation of the Alcubierre metric is consistent with the conventional claims of the laws of relativity (namely, that an object with mass cannot attain or exceed the speed of light) and conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation would not apply as they would with conventional motion at near-light speeds.

[@bcast9978]

Correct. No time dilation.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

@@toddjohnson7572 Warp drive does not suffer the effects of relativity (Inertial mass increase, lorentz contraction, time dilation. But warp does kind of shuffle spacetime like a shuffle puzzle (a bubble of spacetime, moving through spacetime.. I wonder if that is at all possible when it is looked at this way.

[@gerasmus]

In one Alastair Reynolds' books "Blue remembered earth" i think that is the one where people travel interstellar inside a huge asteroid. In one of the instances with dialation for people inside the transit seemed instantaneous, when in actual fact 82 thousand years had passed in real time to reach the destination.

[@homeworldmusic]

Thank you for explaining inertial mass: that gets left out of pretty much every description I've ever come across prior to today.

[@jackkennedy70]

To avoid radiation exposure you need to use the main deflecto, and dylithium crystals for a anti-matter and normal matter fusion reaction.

[@contessa.adella]

12:50 Using a brass bucket to fly men into space is worthy of the Jules Vern accolade for delightful Victorian pseudo science hokum.

[@TheChrisForum]

Great video, although one small thing. That's not how time dialation would work on a trip to alpha centauri. At relativistic speeds, your clock would certainly run slower compared to one on earth. But the journey time would still only be a minimum of 4 years of earth time. If you were travelling much further, say 1000 light years. Then time dilation could shorten the journey from the ships perspective to 4 years and yes, everyone you know on earth would be long dead.

[@garros]

I think it's even more complicated than that, from what I can tell after listening to so many videos and reading so many papers to try and get a better idea of it. I could be mistaken, but if one could achieve a constant acceleration of 1G, a human could get a long way across the universe during their lifetime,. due to these dilation effects. I don't have the link to a good video off-hand but if you look up 1G acceleration space travel you should find what I'm taking about. Basically, I think the journey, even for the travellers ends up shorter than the 4+ years should they have a velocity of 99% light speed. Any experts please chime in and correct/clarify!

[@JeffDeWitt]

@@garros In the novel "Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson the crew of a Bussard ramjet powered spacecraft finds they can't shut their engine down and it keeps accelerating for years, getting closer and closer to the speed of light. With time dilation billions of years pass in the universe before they fix the problem.

[@TheChrisForum]

@@garros oh it's definitely complicated. I was just trying to keep it fairly simple in my analogy. You're not wrong though. The equations say that it would take an infinite amount of energy for anything with mass to achieve lightspeed. But from the perspective of the object travelling at lightspeed that would also mean infinite velocity. It's kind of hard to get your head around that a photon itself experiences no time. It's creation and destruction could be billions of years apart on the other side of the universe. But from its perspective, they both happen in the same instant.

[@thomasciarlariello]

I can design a hyperdrive which is better

[@panther105]

My wife can read my mind faster than the speed of light. As soon as I start to ask a question she says, "No .!"

[@AppliedMathematician]

Maybe we should go for something comparatively easy first? Like fusion energy generators?

[@TimeeJustin]

They actually had the first confirmed ignition in fusion just this week. So that should be solved relatively soon.

[@govcorpwatch]

go for something easy? The tech we need is not fictional... it's classified. Really. Frequency and resonance can "achieve" "negative mass". US Gov't is hiding these super advanced tech from us. Listen for yourself. #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@AppliedMathematician]

@@TimeeJustin : Good!

[@mikey33409]

Man's inventions kinda work if you don't reach for the unsinkable's paradox or fly in the face of reason to the limits of knowledge or again the limits of science and observations. Thank you

[@Dank-gb6jn]

Cryogenics/suspended animation would solve the problem of the ship’s crew dying as a result of natural biological processes (theoretically); but the problem is we can’t perfect the tech due to a...”lack” of testable subjects. It’s almost like we’ve forgotten that there are millions of violent criminals with no other value to society; that are locked up all over the world, that could prove invaluable to scientific research.

[@rahmadrenaldi2624]

Not feasible, the guy who did cryogenic experiment on lab rat explain that human cell are just too big to be put into cryostasis and reanimated. They did it on mice because the cell on mice is small enough to not really get impacted by the ice crystal formation inside the cell. If you scale it up to human size, low temperature cause water inside the cell to crystalized which break the cell structure which cause a lot of problem. You can replace the water content inside human body with an anti freeze solution but currently it is toxic to human body.

[@Dank-gb6jn]

@@rahmadrenaldi2624 well. Good thing we have a *lot* of evil people in the world’s prisons to experiment on with new methods of cryogenic freezing/other methods of suspended animation.

[@moneybilla]

@@Dank-gb6jn science doesn't give as shi bout ur opinion tho theres rules to shit lmao🤣☠

[@moneybilla]

And theres still that major prob as dude stated doesnt matter if the subjects used are expendable the shit you need todo it is poisonous to us so ur Project is gonna fail either way wether that 5 mins into ur excitement or 15 years in when you realize this was a giant waste of time

[@Dank-gb6jn]

@@moneybilla which is what the testing is for. You test and refine until you have compounds that are *not* poisonous (or at the very least safe enough for long term use at appropriate thresholds). Alcohol is poisonous, if you ingest massive quantities of it at a single time, or larger than moderate quantities over the span of decades. The premise behind cryogenic freezing/suspended animation in relation to FTL travel, is essentially: you protect the body so that senescence (aging) is either *stopped* or slowed so significantly that it *might as well be* stopped. This is in conjunction with pre-loaded data that estimates the time needed to reach a pre-selected nav point, and then uses automated processes to keep the cryo/suspended animation equipment running; until such time as it necessary to awaken the subject.

[@darrinwebber4077]

Humans have a knack for things like... * Breaking barriers. * Solving problems. * Overcoming obstacles. * Finding loopholes. While I, personally, feel we should focus subluminal warp drives... I have faith humans will eventually achieve true real time FTL also.

[@CameraObscure]

Energy, Energy, Energy. No one ever mentions the mind boggling energy requirements to create any form of FTL / Space time folding etc. Even if we come up with a method to do it we would need the energy of super Massive Black holes, controlable and directional at that to do the smallest jumps. maybe in a thousand years from now if we havent dstroyed our Enviroment and or life on Earth then maybe we might be close to achieving that dream. And even then those distances to cover. Even if we where able to create large stable worm holes we would need the ability to locate and fix the other end of said worm hole to a place we desire to travel. As much as it would be exciting to be able to explore even the Local Universe its as far of to us as was flying to the moon to our ancestors still climbing trees before we could walk upright.

[@govcorpwatch]

Frequency resonance cuts the energy requirements.... OK. #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@samgordon9756]

Energy isn't entirely neglected. It's just that most people can't get their heads around the amount of energy involved. E=m. I know people are used to seeing that with a square c attached but units are arbitrary. If one sets the speed of light to 1, 1^2 =1. And m*1=m. Energy is exactly equal to mass. The original 1994 paper required at least as much energy as the observable universe contains. Refinements reduced that to a hand full of Jupiters the further to about a horse. That last sounds almost reasonable except that in metric units that's a horse times ~300000^2. 9x10^10 kilojoules, I think. IIR the math on photon torpedoes correctly, that's about 7.68 gigatons of TNT. Humans have trouble conceptualizing Fat Man and Little Boy which were kiloton range bombs. So most science writers just skip the energy required these days. In part because the numbers change depending on the design. But also because most people can't comprehend the numbers. I certainly can't and I just did the math in my head. My numbers could be off by several orders of magnitude either way and they're still incomprehensible. Right now, the best warp theories are barely physical. Meaning they fit into physics as we know it. Theorists really only consider them because of what they might say about the nature of spacetime.

[@mkeysou812]

Some wind farms and a few solar panels should do it

[@scottmoore6131]

Just remember that we used to think that the speed of sound was impossible. Until it wasn’t.

[@WokeAFMillennial]

Bahahaha.. You mean howling across the lake and hearing your echo 2 seconds later was impossible speed?

[@scottmoore6131]

@@WokeAFMillennial what was the first man made creation to break the sound barrier? A whip

[@zuurek6907]

I'm fairly certain time dilation is related to speed and gravity, and with a proper warp drive you wouldn't be interacting with either of those, you're cut off from the rest of the universe

[@MeStevely]

Absolutely. You cannot travel THROUGH spacetime at faster than c, but spacetime itself can travel at any speed it likes. Which is why inflation in the early universe holds up as a theory. Since you' d be sitting in a bubble of spacetime, that's what's moving - not the ship. So occupants would feel no acceleration, nor would they experience time dilation.

[@nullbeyondo]

Exactly. The amount of errors and false explanations he gave is just uncountable.. why do people even subscribe to him. Someone acheiving 99.998% the speed of light NO WARP basically has near infinite speed; surely with time dilation. Someone achieving the same speed with warp is going to take much MUCH longer to reach the destination but no time dilation. If they want some actual real science, I suggest they read a paper or too on the subject, or for simplicity, go watch Matt O'Dowd.

[@waltciii3]

You are talking of Niven or Asimov Hyperspace now.

[@zuurek6907]

@@waltciii3 no, the concept of the alcubierre warp drive isolates you in a cut off piece of space, such that your ship doesn't actually move at all. Watch the event horizon podcast where the man himself explains it

[@repeat_defender]

Aspen Cho, your editing is magnificent :chef’s kiss: 😄

[@sormeki5638]

Just remember, the news said it would be a million years before we could fly the same month the Wright Brothers flew.

[@kre4ture218]

Every time I think I have seen every channel of the Whistler-verse, I get a new one recommended with that beardy face of his

[@tmarritt]

I really looked into it hard and tried to understand the whole folding a piece of paper and making a hole thing. And in my late 20s after a lot of books and a lot of research, I kinda understood it, for a moment it made sense. And not in a hippy/stoner way I actually understood how the concept worked for a bit. Now I have forgotten it and my brain is to solid to learn it again. Humans suck

[@garros]

I learnt to accept that the human brain is not actually capable of visualising what these type of concepts would actually 'appear' like if we could see them. We use representations using 2-D paper folded on itself but that's not exactly correct, because space--time is a 4-D manifold. It's similar to the rubber sheet with the metal ball used to represent gravity warping space-time, which is another flawed tool that is just meant to give us the best picture we can manage with the brains that evolution has given us, which aren't designed to do these tasks because there was no advantage in doing so from a reproduction/survival standpoint. It's frustrating.

[@godamid4889]

@High Pope Maximilian Bunny Bouncies [POEE / hodge] not really it can't. You are imagining a 3d approximation like a picture of a beach ball represents a 3d approximation in 2d. The image you have been shown of a 4-cube doesn't represent what you would actually see if one appeared in our world. Check out the wikipedia page on tesseracts - it's got a great little bit on how a tesseract would project into 3d space, depending on what you are projecting.

[@5alm0n]

The dancing space suit really made me giggle !

[@OGSontar]

As a child, I thought that a warp drive letting us spread through the Galaxy would be the best thing ever. As an adult, I think that a warp drive letting us spread through the Galaxy would be the worst possible thing to happen to our Galaxy. Still be super cool though!

[@_A_M_I_T_]

In reality we would be creating a lots of permanent holes in our galaxy, like he did with pen in the paper! Th i s wh o le co n ce pt is me ss ed up !

[@grindcoreninja6527]

We'd essentially be space orks as opposed to the Federation in Star Trek.

[@rolflandale2565]

Warp drive, has been suppressed to the public for many reasons, not just the ability to surpass raw velocity travel, making it easier to travel in micro gravity at light speed friction. but the fact it will reveal time travel, not a thing to pass a long to every friend and neighbor.

[@Xollob2]

Really? Suppressed? What by the same guys who man the ice wall that is Antarctica?

[@rolflandale2565]

@@Xollob2 perhaps the truth will show by the melting cover.

[@MrDDiRusso]

HOW MANY BAGS DID THE PHOTON PACK FOR ITS TRIP? NONE, IT WAS TRAVELLING LIGHT.

[@govcorpwatch]

Amazing to imagine that "light" emits and arrives at its destination at exactly the same time... there is NO TIME for light, from light's POV. Light is instant, except for us external observers. based within "time"

[@gso619]

I wish more sci-fi did the 40k thing of just having actual magic instead of Space Magic™. Like, none of it makes any sense or is actually possible, so just call it magic and be done with it. "So, how does this ship travel faster than the speed of light? "It uses a complex device that creates a magic rift into a parallel dimension where the laws of physics are different, which means you can safely traven faster than the speed of light, as long as you don't mind the danger of being destroyed by incomprehensible forces if you make a single mistake." "Wow, shit. Is that practical for shorter journeys? You know, like in-system?" "Pft, no. We just use regular thrusters powered by the ship's nuclear reactor for that."

[@liamprice134]

Wait a minute, doesn’t time dilation apply to matter travelling through space? If you were travelling via warp drive then no matter would actually travel through any space?

[@damonhawkes2057]

Yep, since Alcubierre warp drive doesn't actually make you move faster than the speed of light (if you even technically move at all), you would not experience time dilation.

[@iainburgess8577]

Different methods claim to sidestep this, as above. A generation ship Would experience time dilation, because any ship doing a standard transit would still take thousands of years to the external perspective; internally, W time dilation, centuries, decades, or years, depending on attained speed in fractions of C.

[@damonhawkes2057]

@@iainburgess8577 we’re talking about the alcubierre warp drive though, not a generation ship? As far as I understand the alcubierre concept, you don’t technically have to move at all

[@iainburgess8577]

@@damonhawkes2057 the video has more than just alcubierre. And he's asking about time dilation; I gave him an example that Would experience it.

[@damonhawkes2057]

@@iainburgess8577 ah I get you, on that note I’d love to see a video about generation ships

[@briantucker4255]

Best video ever! Simon unhinged! What a great laugh!

[@brazenzebra]

Far away from warp drive? Think again. We are very close to AGI, which means we may be closer than we thought to warp drive. So, if I was an AGI whisperer (the hottest new career field), I would whisper in a beautiful android's ear a bunch of babble like, "Honey, you've heard about all those aliens visiting Earth in their flying saucers right? They must have FTL warp drives. How do they do it?" I guarantee you that within a year an advanced AGI would have blueprints ready for a prototype starship with a functional warp drive. I bet that's exactly how all these aliens developed their own warp drives.

[@patrickjordan2233]

Fun fact...at a constant 1 Earth G of acceleration, because of relativity time progression slowing relatiive for the traveler...a youngish astronaut would reach the edge of the universe within their potential lifespan. Outside the vehicle the trip would span billions of years.. There's a few videos addressing this true depth of time dilation, taken to the extreme...the math is pretty wild....👍👍👍

[@patrickjordan2233]

1 second inside equalling decades outside...

[@shawns0762]

A ship traveling at a constant 1 g acceleration rate would span the entire diameter of our galaxy in 24 ship/113,000 Earth years. It would get to Alpha Centauri in just 3.6 ship/7.3 Earth years. Not only is this by far the fastest way we can get to other worlds but the ship would have gravity the whole way. All that is needed for this is a fission rocket that can put out thrust for long periods and does not consume hydrogen (you can't bring 500 tons of that with you).

[@justinecooper9575]

Your poking the pen through the paper made me think of Event Horizon and therefore why warping space might be a bad idea.

[@JustAnNPC69]

Seriously… HE IS EVERYWHERE!!!

[@tylorgibbs2979]

Luv the new work on the channel...well done.

[@joefekete4384]

Yay. I've been waiting for Simon to make a channel like this forever!!!

[@thejohanvalli]

Splendid video! Thänks Simon! ✌️😌

[@andeeharry]

Thanks for the random algorithm check...I just found this and enjoying this. thanks

[@LostAmericanJ]

Another Classic Show of Talent from Simon and Kevin, (Danny's in the basement at the moment.😎) Jolly good work as always guys, guess I will subscribing to another channel soon! Good to see ya guys are doing ah new channel with new content such as science! Cool

[@Bamiar1789]

I remember reading somewhere that Alcubierre drive travelers would not experience time dilation, because they are not actually moving with any velocity - the space around them is.

[@fenwickrysen]

Love the Outrun aesthetic for the graphics. 🤙👍👍

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Outrun aesthetics are tight

[@Number6_]

This guy will pretty much spitball about anything.

[@julian9898]

Youre a lot more animated in this one 😅 Im glad you got to have some fun!

[@andreamagni8017]

Negative Mass was one of the things that make me feel Mass effect like science fiction, not just shooting things IN SPAAACE!!

[@govcorpwatch]

Frequency and resonance can do what "negative mass" does. Listen to NASA explain this classified tech themselves: #Disclosure. DONE.... I got NASA Chief of Security to admit that they have, certify, and register anti-gravity tech space craft.... 1m voice mail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZTdYpKrrN2XY7M How many are registered? When did they start registering anti-gravity tech space craft?

[@wendelllecroy214]

You know, the Wright Brothers were told their aeroplane was impossible also, but while serious engineers shook their heads and scoffed, Orville and Wilbur kept working at it. This is not to say it is the same thing, or that it might be accomplished by two guys working out of a bicycle shop, but you can bet that, if it is possible, it will be resolved by someone who isn't following the killjoys that tell them they are wasting their time. There might be a Zephrem Cochrane out there somewhere who has a few new tricks up their sleeve. Progress does not come by being negative.

[@HicSvntDracones]

No they weren't... fixed wing unpowered gliders had flown several times before the Wright Brothers, such as Sir George Cayley, we very much knew they were possible. They just added control to it, and eventually an engine.

[@wendelllecroy214]

@@HicSvntDracones I think you're dodging the point. Success in any venture is not going to be accomplished by someone who listens to naysayers. If it will be accomplished at all, it will be by someone who is trying to figure out how to circumvent relativity, instead of taking it at face value. Give science some time to reconcile quantum chromodynamics with relativity, and then the discussion may be different.,

[@iron_side5674]

Once i heard that an Effect that is similar to a Warp drive had been observed to actually exist, i was REALLY happy, it just absolutely made my day and made me smile instantly. Because, after all, even the Speed of light is slower than tectonic drift even if you consider the size of only our Galaxy.

[@theViomax]

Holy another channel in the Whistler-verse. It's bleedin infinite.

[@carlrood4457]

I love the term "functionally impossible". The science might work, but practical concerns mean no one would ever do it.

[@infoscholar5221]

I think I'm subscribed to about twenty Simon Whistler channels now. More? Yes, please.

[@pharmdiddy5120]

Yes! This is why I love hard sci-fi. Blurring the lines between possible technically and possible actually

[@misterlau5246]

Warping 4space around a ship, if that 's plausible which is not, doesn't mean the ship would be pushed by it. And I believe it has to be a helluva radiation with so much feedback. Bloody stuff that is in space. Ooh well you said about the kablam!!! Nice! Now you can have my thumb up! 🖖🤓

[@-_James_-]

I'm pretty sure that with current technologies we could get to Proxima Centauri in about 100 years. That is to say the ship would (probably) make it there. No humans would survive the journey though. PBS Space Time did a great video on the topic about a month ago.

[@RoboCatTrainer]

I love that for this chanel Simon wears a suit Sheldon would be proud to own, 🤣

[@lloydrutledge3850]

One of several showstoppers with warp drives is that even if negative energy can warp a region of space to have locally, relatively increased light-speed, the speed at which you can warp it is still the original light speed. Thus, the best we can hope for is to lay a path at original (flat space-time) light-speed, and when done, ships can travel in it at faster than light speed. A more direct technical showstopper for the Alcubierre warp drive is that its classical ring-shaped engine only warps space within it, which means the ring itself is still outside that warped space, and thus limited to "traditional" light speed. And about the White-Juday warp-field interferometer: it tried to measure the affect of *positive* energy on time dilation, not negative energy. Still interesting, because we've only shown the affect of positive *mass* on dilation, not positive energy. But even if it worked, it would show that positive energy slows light-speed down like mass does, rather than showing that negative energy increases light-speed locally.

[@BlizzAz]

Don't worry; once the Vogons build that intergalactic highway, we won't have to worry about solving that problem...

[@johnchedsey1306]

The greatest prank the universe played on its inhabitants is making travel impossible, thereby stranding every lifeform on their planet of origin. I hope there is some distant planet with their own advanced civilization who has their own version of Star Trek on their entertainment devices.

[@joshuaradick5679]

Maybe a warp drive would open a portal directly into Hell.

[@skyhop]

As far as I know, with a warp drive you wouldn't have time dilation, since you're stationary.

[@ericdreblow8564]

The editing on this channel is so wildly different then all his other channels... kinda amazing😂

[@mi-jeansamuels5184]

Christ blaze boi, another channel?😂 I’m here for it😂😂

[@jackroyaltea5034]

This is fun to think about. And I used to get depressed that I was born too soon in history. But now I’m happy I was born now. I’m lucky enough to watch the fall of humanity. I’m old enough to know how good it used to be and young enough that I’ll live to the end days.

[@risenarchangel-t2l]

Talking about FTL technology, the US Air Force in 1950s had an idea on how to create warp engines. The first idea was to create a spacecraft in space that would be powered by three thorium reactors, and with the reactors they would generate a magnetic field similar to earth’s and it would be able to bend space with their max sub light speed being about 90% the speed of light but add a bend to space and you could reach the nearest star within a few weeks. Then came the creation of antimatter from plutonium or uranium, and with that they refined their warp drive and discovered that their magnetic field could allow them to travel faster and possibly reach the closest star within a few hours. So FTL is possible and we have the capability to create it without the need for any exotic matter.

[@thomasciarlariello]

hyperdrives are better