This problem makes Warp Drive impossible

In this video we will explore the most pressing issue when it comes to warp drive technology.
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[@YoungGandalf2325]

5:44 "negative energy has never been observed anywhere in nature" Talk to me on a Monday morning before I've had my coffee. I'll show you negative energy.

[@SenorTucano]

You’ve not met my ex wife.

[@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT]

If only rocket scientists could harness the power of Twitter feuds and Karens.

[@silvercloud1641]

Ziltoid, he comes!

[@tcf70tyrannosapiensbonsai]

Let's take antimatter for the ship, then switch to positive energy! What bad science? Just because scientists won't understand my formulas? I can't understand understand their magic spells neither and I wouldn't try to dare to even touch their nobel-blingbling-prices ... Was there any practical physics nobel-prise besides the blue led at all? The rest isn't even digestable for most of humanity! 😮 ... 😊 ... 😂

[@iamyourdamnation5769]

​@@SenorTucanoIt's a good thing that, she got rid of you.

[@henrycgs]

Warp Drive Recipe Ingredients: - Substance that can not exist in this universe - A cool machine

[@mattplays3824]

I love cooking particles unknown to our feeble minds

[@solaireastora5394]

Cassmir effect has created negative pressure. Let's wait and see what quantum mechanics pumps out before we say can't exist

[@intellectualiconoclasm3264]

So all we need to is discover, manufacture, and leash mono-poles. Cool, I hope we're as close to that as people are hyping up right now.

[@kineticstar]

Do you need it in negative or positive naked singularity form or quantized?

[@asterlofts1565]

Even if discovered now, it would take at least 30 or 50 years to make small or medium scale test models that were also safe or correct to begin with... in fact, THAT PARTICULAR DISCOVERY would take 15 or 20 years to be found from of this 2024 or 2025, as a starting point and reference.

[@koiyujo1543]

@@asterlofts1565 the minimun to built one is said would take as much as 700 years as far as I now but it possibly couldn't be for another thousand years however with discovers of it and the more of it being taken seriously it means research is slowly getting sped up!

[@zollen123]

They should have focus their attention to real world problems. You know... like world peace and world hunger.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

​@@zollen123 You mean the people who get billions in tax money to address those exact problems should start doing their job.

[@FinGeek4now]

While I'm all for instellar travel, it is pragmatic to instead wish that we should take a step back and get ourselves to a T1 civilization before even thinking about what we need to go to T2. For this, we really need to start seriously looking at developing an intra-system manufacturing infrastructure. Creating a ship manufacturing area in one of Earth's langrange points, then creating mining vessels which wouldn't need to overcome the gravity well would do miracles for our exploration of the system. At that point, setting up a mineral processing facility on Phobos which those mining vessels can deliver to would be next. Then we just need transportation and engineering ships depending on where those processed minerals should go. What's sad is that we could literally start doing this today if it wasn't for global geopolitics.

[@2MeterLP]

The amount of resources humanity wastes on harming each other is staggering. We could be so much more without all this tribalism.

[@jamesogden7756]

Yeah, I'd leave this place behind to start over anywhere else. The struggle is real. Civilization will end beforehand anyway. 😢

[@shinygoldenpotion1587]

The warp drives power required is probably gonna get us to kardeshev 1 I think alcubierre warp drives on ships is something that would easily get us to kardeshev 1 I do have an idea ive been looking into for a long time which is to power the warp drive with 1636 tons of thorium, or around 2 full shipping containers of thorium and it would require around 16 tons of plutonium 239 Getting these resources to build the ships and get the fuel will require us to colonize the moon, which I want people to do before heading to mars

[@FinGeek4now]

@@shinygoldenpotion1587 Na, a T1 civ doesn't need warp drives, they just need to be able to get around their own solar system efficiently. Atm, estimates puts humanity at a 0.75 scale civilization.

[@user-gu6ps6ed6l]

What we need is molecular 3D printers. Or in Star Trek replicators. It's all the other comment that's further up about world peace and world hunger and you solve your issue with manufacturing since you can use dirt rocks whatever else you want to use. Since it is the replicator that made Star Trek work in its socialist way.

[@memespeech]

surfing the grav waves is another one of those "just 30 years away"-forever things

[@adlockhungry304]

Probably more like a perpetual "200 years away". 😄

[@SlowSTEN]

Thing is, our technology has been growing exponentially since we first started walking this planet, we went from just barely being able to fly to supersonic jets in less than 100 years From Typewriters to Complex computation in a very short time, While, yeah, 30 years is unreasonably optimistic I'm VERY CONFIDENT it will be within my lifetime (Im in my twenties)

[@freezingcathedral]

warp drive is cake. anybody that drank coffee after a night of taco bell has experienced warp speed.

[@asterlofts1565]

XD

[@johnmckown1267]

Reminds me long ago of a sci-fi short story. Humanity creates a warp drive. The "static testing" of the initial device warps space, but triggers massive earthquakes which destroys our civilazation.

[@billberg1264]

This is why we need to send scientists to Mars. So they can do all the really dangerous experiments there instead.

[@QuantumAscension1]

@@billberg1264 ... Proceeds to knock Mars out of orbit and into a collision course with Earth. lol

[@Casto3924]

Do you know about Starfield game from Bethesda? Also a sci-fi space game. There is some interesting lore about the warp drive, or GravDrive as it is known in the game itself. Spoiler alert: At the dawn of space exploration for humanity when the GravDrive (in-game name for warp drive) was first developed it had a very serious negative flaw - it disrupted Earth gravity in a big way. Since it was used extensively by human civilization ever since its creation it gradually messed up and weakened Earth's gravity, leading to it's atmosphere evaporating into space (cuz there was little to no gravity to keep it in place), which led to disappearance of ozone layer, which led to Earth being scorched by ultraviolet solar radiation, which led to evaporation of oceans and extinction of all life on the surface and eventually Earth turned into one giant lifeless desert without an atmosphere. Ultimately the human civilization abandoned Earth and spread across the galaxy (they fixed the GravDrive's fatal flaw first of course, so that the same thing would not happen again on other planets).

[@DocWolph]

We know it can be done... mathematically. We simply do not know how to make the machines, and the underlying physics, to do it.

[@defeatSpace]

put a bunch of matter in your particle accelerator and configure the standing wave?

[@AkkarisFox]

Obtain more matter through star lifting infrastructure?

[@johnlshilling1446]

Mathematics doesn't have a requirement of conforming to reality. It is irrelevant that "The Math Works." Placing a minus sign in front of an equation doesn't create a negative "X." It simply places a minus sign in front of an equation. That's it. Nothing more. It describes a nonexistent opposite of "X." Very much like playing a recording in reverse. Interesting.., but not representative of reality.

[@DocWolph]

@@johnlshilling1446 Hence the caveat "mathematically". It is extremely hard for any[one] rational to simply dismiss a thing with "math has no bearing on reality" when (Zooms out and pans wide) the ENTIRETY of human science and technology (and a lot of things you really would not think requires math) sa[y]s otherwise. Thus, my second sentence, in short, "we just don't know how to do that yet". But the first step is knowing it can be done. So, I will say it again differently. "By the math, it can be done. We just don't know how to actually do it yet." Look, I have trouble crunching hard numbers, but I am not going to discount Math because some people "no can do big math".

[@0neIntangible]

Once they can produce & harvest gravitons, it'll be easy-peasy.

[@dallingoodrich]

I bet we will beat the light barrier. Just because we don't know how yet doesn't mean it's impossible. Gravitational waves have shown us it is possible. Before the sound barrier people thought all kind of crazy things would happen or prevent it, turns out it's just a bit of turbulence, pressure changes, and accounting for changes on how control surfaces respond. I think we will eventually achieve the same with the light barrier. It's just a larger, harder to achieve challenge. But we will get there.

[@stephenbutler4399]

Okay, so all we need to do is create a black hole in front of a ship, with its connecting white hole behind the ship. A localized wormhole, but instead of traveling thru it from one point to another, you use and travel with the entire system overall. Self propulsion, if you will. The black hole in front is kept at a certain distance from the vessel, which is surrounded by a "warp bubble", it pulls in the warp bubble itself, while the white hole is kept a certain distance behind the vessel, pushing it from behind. The space inside the warp bubble is kept still, so space will move around this localized pocket of space time, black/ white holes included. The mass/ energy of the black hole will be equalized by the negative mass/ energy of the white hole, so you would need to surround these two objects in a cylindrical "warp tunnel" that would entangle the two together enough to allow them to travel faster than light. Think of a warp tunnel, at the entrance is a black hole, in the center is a warp bubble that holds the contained positive mass and energy of the traveling vessel and crew, and at the exit of the tunnel is an entangled white hole. In order to stop traveling with this method tho, you would need to collapse the two holes together to cancel each other out, which could potentially cause damage to the local area upon arrival. The gravitational waves of such a collision is also a danger factor. Unless... you build containment rings, such as the rings around the vessel, like shown on the enterprise model in the video, that enclose the white and black holes in a "nullifying field" that cancels out their pulls and pushes. This would require 4 singularities to accomplish tho... you would also need to figure out how to manipulate and control the gravitational affects of said singularities in order to gain such capabilities. Then again... the black hole and the white hole will already create a wormhole thru space time, technically going straight thru the apparent location of the traveling vessel. Pull the walls of this wormhole "out" far enough and you'll pull both singularities into the wormhole as well, letting them cancel each other out without harming anything, potentially. It's still unknown where the wormhole actually "exists", so this could potentially still cause damage in an area we aren't aware of yet. But it would cancel out both singularities and stop the forward motion of the vessel at the destination. We need better ways to contain/ "delete" the singularities to enable safer travel. The black hole in the front of the tunnel would also act as a force field for the vessel against incoming debris, seeing it exit the white hole from the exit of the tunnel. Huh... a literal "worm" "hole". Creating the spacial distortion to build the tunnel is another matter entirely as well tho... much to consider with this one

[@cecilrhodes2153]

You’ve clearly put a lot of thought into this.

[@devonrongotoa-owen2837]

Awesome video thanks from new zealand 🇳🇿

[@Ohem1]

Wasn’t negative energy observed through the cassimir effect a few years ago? I have a vague memory about it.

[@gabrielvincentelli1254]

There is more than one way to interpret the cassimir effect, PBs space time talked about a while back. Also, if my memory serves me right, even the exotic interpretation shows the vaccum ennergy, or lack there of in betwwen the mirrors. It would be a energy low, not negative energy.

[@elenapo7775]

Great video and very interesting topic! Thank you.

[@Zbezt]

The amount of radiation needed for a space time warp wave would cook the occupants better off using solar sails

[@evo1ov3]

Basically. But that's what all the drones and A.I. are for. I mean... It's only extremely obvious. 😂

[@Zbezt]

@@evo1ov3 1000% agree with u there

[@clydecox2108]

Excellent content zero. The hard part is waiting I consider the adventure has begun.

[@rehon101]

I love this channel and the content that it makes. Keep it up :)

[@markszlazak]

Thank you for the clarification.

[@ishaanagrawal2819]

Warp drive may not even require negative energy if we can just contract space-time in front of the spacecraft and push the aircraft (generate thrust) using super efficient engine and enough fuel.

[@mathiaslist6705]

3:20 the greatest problem with anti-matter is that it can't be stored long --- not even a day so no matter how expensive production is -- what's it good for if it can't be stored

[@ericstrickland2414]

Fusion and/or Antimatter annihilation reactors + an oscillating array of high frequency gravitational wave generators (i.e. high speed rotation of two large high density masses in a magnetic field) = functional warp drive.

[@Mr-wv1tu]

For the time being, I would have a just as high likelihood with writing: Functional warp drive = just do it with magic!

[@ASlickNamedPimpback]

did you just do napkin math or do you have an actual source?

[@Mr-wv1tu]

@@ASlickNamedPimpback naaaaw......! Did I hurt your little magical worldview? I am not the one who need a source - ericstrickland2414 above made the claim; I am not expected to counter-proof him. You really don't know how these things work, do you? You go back to your science fiction movies and your computer games, little one - I promise I won't challenge your outlook on the world any more; I don't want to rattle your little cage anymore now, would I?

[@pauljs75]

Probably need two equally opposed masses in a rotation following along an orbital eccentric. Basically following mirrored elliptical paths approximately meeting in a "V". Masses balance and cancel each other out for part of the cycle, but there should be a way to bias the impulse of the cycle where they don't. But agreed, gravitational waves might be the right approach. (Properties of cymatics with interference patterns in standing waves gives some idea. No exotic materials needed there.) But would the material needed to make a device showing any appreciable effect have to be made of unobtanium? Presumably it requires a good bit of mass changing direction very fast, and subject to all kinds of stresses.

[@shinygoldenpotion1587]

Ive had this idea for a while to use 1636 tons of thorium which is around 2 full shipping containers of thorium and around 16 tons of plutonium 239 To get the materials we'll have to colonize the moon which I want to do before heading to mars According to this paper: space.nss.org/wp-content/uploads/NSS-JOURNAL-Nuclear-Fuel-Resources-of-the-Moon-2021-June.pdf Theres around 700 million tons of thorium and 200 million tons of uranium 238 waiting to be turned into plutonium 239 on the moon The ships with the alcubierre warp drives would be the things that will make us a type 1 civilization, using all the energy of our planet and mostly our moon

[@TankorSmash]

The editing on this was great but the sound effects were distracting. Great video!

[@juangil384]

Beautiful video! Very insightful

[@cassiuswilhelm9640]

I really enjoyed watching your video. It perfectly fits the growing niche of high-quality edutainment. Yet I’d like to make a request: Please consider rendering videos in HDR. This one would have (artistically speaking) greatly profited from the effect.

[@mattsmith4536]

Beautiful. Could this be used on propulsion in the atmosphere?

[@CJBuggs]

When subject zero start it to explain negative and positive warp bubbles, I started nerding out on the ability to have phantom or sort of hidden stabilizers like on a plane would have to keep itself straight, this also says that you could possibly have an Anti-Slip system in other words a way to keep the aircraft from drifting in the original direction it was moving when taking a turn in space. And this saying you possibly dont need a silly orbit to change directions.

[@markszlazak]

The theory with positive energy and a level much smaller than before has been published three years ago. This video is horrible when it comes to the developments on metrics since the original warp drive paper!

[@oraz.]

You could mention the paper for reference then .

[@markszlazak]

Check this video out from PBS: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJyYk6t-mtl_atUsi=mfLC_l1rVBJpg45w

[@timseguine2]

And it doesn't even cover the actual unsolved problem, which is there is no known way to accelerate the bubble across the light speed barrier. Even known positive energy solutions only contain either bubbles which are slower than light for all time or faster than light for all time. This is a difficult problem, and nobody even really has an idea of how to tackle it.

[@markszlazak]

@@oraz. PBS Space Time, New WARP drive possibilities, 2 years ago. On KZbin.

[@markszlazak]

@@timseguine2 the argument is that nothing inside spacetime is moving faster than the speed of light but warping spacetime allows you to effectively go faster than the speed of light. I’m guessing it’s because warping spacetime itself has to known speed limit.

[@AllanWorks]

negative energy is not needed. if you can artificially create a small dime-sized black hole in front of the ship and blink it in and out of existence it will pull the ship forward. As space is a near vacuum the ship will continuously build momentum. the black hole also serves another purpose to clear some debris in front of the ship.

[@Marinealver]

Well thing is matter + anti-matter reaction only gets you to C. You need to distort time, instead of increasing the distance, you reduce the time. However there will still be a time debt.

[@fanOmry]

Have a pipes that is made of graphene with active reinforcement. Spin it along the axis, so it's wall is now the floor. At reletavistic speed. At one end(and the half that's attached), you add another pipe. That spins counter, and is conecentric with it. The frame dragging of the spinning pipes, means that at the area the pipe is alone, the space inside it has less zeropoint ambient energy, while at the half that has the other one added in, the frame dragging effects of both partially cancel eachother out, so you have and area where energy accumulate. Rather than getting flung out with the gravity waves. Positive energy. The other, negative energy, relatively speaking.

[@4DCResinSmoker]

Even if warping space were possible, the contraction of space in front of the ship poses a rather nasty problem. What happens to the mass near or directly in front of the ship? Odds are that it would be drawn towards the center of the warp field. Thus as the ship accelerated its likely to burn up from interacting directly with particles traveling near light speed!

[@arconnelly5365]

What happened to your video on Nicola tesla and a few others?

[@RalseiGaming]

people criticized it for using ai and not being up to this channels standards

[@arconnelly5365]

@@RalseiGaming Well that’s stupid

[@menjolno]

sub zero is evil and a corprate greedy thing that hides failures a😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@AkkarisFox]

​@@arconnelly5365 ppl generally agree to keep it in the script writing process. It doesn't have the ability to be set to use a specific tone and a specific way at specific parts so there's just not enough of the person.

[@newtonchutney]

Are you talking of his second channel? kzbin.info/www/bejne/innakHauosuJpqM

[@floridamangaming2453]

I was actually thinking about this a while ago, and for some reason, my brain, my brain spat out the word beryllium, not even knowing what it does until I googled it, so it's going to be REALLY funny if it becomes a critical component

[@davidvavra9113]

Thanks!

[@VegetaFH1]

i know this is dumb and someone has probably thought of it BUT What about just adding 2 positive energies on eather side and riding it like a wave?? it wouldnt be a warp drive but it would be a great way to get around at a good speed

[@Mr-wv1tu]

Even though I'm firmely of the belief, that faster than light travel is, and always will be impossible (it's not a technical issue, just waiting to be solved; its impossibility is ingrained in Special & General Relativity), I still think we shall continue to grant science funds to the question of whether they can make a functional warp drive or not. On the way there, they are bound to invent and explore many new things. And knowledge is always good; it's what you do with it, that is important.

[@Maverick966]

This is not faster than light speed, it doesn't brake any rule, it is the space that moves around the spaceship not the other way, the ship never moves physiscally, this is possible because space has no speed limit in real life.

[@Mr-wv1tu]

@@Maverick966 Nowhere in my comment did I say or imply that the warp drive is "faster than light speed" - I was talking about ftl travel in general (please read the whole comment). I know how the warp drive is supposed to work, but thank you for trying to explain it.

[@theokaraman]

even if FTL is impossible in nature due to implications in causality, an STL warp drive would be extremely valuable to the exploration and colonization of the solar system, as well as of the closest star systems. It is worth the efforts to try to engineer this device.

[@danieljabonski4705]

This ship is so beyond our current tech and knowledge like aircraft carrier with atomic engine for Romans. Magic.

[@mercerwing1458]

If we discover any kind of warp technology before we even get a person on mars then we are backwards as a species.

[@peterlin5145]

sick video

[@manadol69]

Beware the entities of chaos. You might open the ocularis malifica.

[@AmblesJambles]

Assuming you could get the warp drive to work what do you do about the paradox of FTL? It's effectively backwards time travel to go FTL. I can only imagine that it is just impossible because if time travel exists where are all the time travellers? idk

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Can't change the past. Think of it like a rubber band. Can stretch it backwards. But will return to it's original form.

[@Orion2525]

Soooo, we just need to discover Anti gravity, then we are on our Warp speed way!!

[@whimsiquisitive]

Is it theoretically possible to contract space-time in multiple areas in such a manner that it could effectively expand space time in another individual area? So you'd be using the contraction of space-time in order to expand space-time in another location therefore not requiring the use of exotic matter?

[@MuppetsSh0w]

No. Space time is not like a fabric.

[@angrydoggy9170]

So in essence the hard work has already been done by mathematicians and physicists but as usual the engineers are taking their sweet time.

[@pauljs75]

@@MuppetsSh0w There's been some proposed things in papers about the spring-like qualities that suggest it has some effective form of Young's Modulus applicable. In other words if those are correct than it *can* be treated like a fabric, the real trick would be making the gravity waves to take advantage of that.

[@just4therecord]

I wonder how it comes to a dead stop when it comes out of warp?

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Well you never moved. The universe did.

[@ericmwangigitau3083]

You can use Three Warp drive to provide negative gravity for each other they fly together in pattern

[@chazc7115]

This will absolutely happen, which is amazing. Within our lifetimes? Prob not.

[@XRobinson]

If you believe space is expanding, isn't that space warping all by itself without space using energy? Now if we could harness that expansion and turn it into energy oruse it to make a warp bubble, could we then travel against the expansion and make a wormhole to travel though space? Or how does making your own space warp drive work against the expansion of space?

[@mdhasiburrahman8806]

How about the actual machinery and technology.??

[@andrewreynolds912]

Hey subject zero and people Heres the fact even if we cant make a FTL warp drive a STL warp drive would still be absolutely revolutionary for space travel however theirs 6 problems if we w'atch the vid from cool worlds about the 6 problems preventing warp drives i wonder if subject zero has consider those variables

[@pauljs75]

I think another approach is instead of looking at energy, look at the nature of an absolute vacuum also defined as free space. Turns out c²=ε₀μ₀ which might used in terms of substitution. (For those missing the unicode characters, that is the square of the speed of light is the product of permittivity of free space multiplied by the permeability of free space.) In which case it may be that m=E/(ε₀μ₀) (mass equal to the ratio of Energy vs. the product of the vacuum properties.) I'd hypothesize that doing something like using some kind of laser interferometry with Casimir plates in a vacuum chamber might be a thing to start research with. Basically looking to see what if anything can cause ripples or standing waves as detected by the interferometry apparatus over the boundary zone of the Casimir plates. Magnetic fields (both static and dynamic), RF waves, charge carriers, rotating masses, various combinations of such... Are the vacuum properties always constant, or are they more reflective of a couple other things going on that we haven't paid enough attention towards? In other words, think of the vacuum properties as describing something to do with the tension stored in the rubber of the rubber sheet analogy used in the video to describe space-time. Understanding that well enough may indicate there might be something interesting where you could manipulate gravity waves, instead of directly needing exotic matter. If it's possible to figure out that hack, then you'd have something.

[@Skylancer727]

The warp drive most likely is impossible. While Alcubierre described how it could work, he basically just used the math that space can curve to say it's possible. There was never any explanation as to how you would even go to warp space in a positive way not even thinking about negatively for the field. Plus in recent time more research has heavily cast doubt on warp drives being realistic or even safe even if they could be done. In recent times most evidence suggests that gravity isn't actually a field at all, it's just a side effect of the warping of space time, so that would kill that method of warping space. Studies of unrah radiation and hawking radiation have suggested that a successful warp field would expose the ship to nearly unimaginably powerful waves of radiation. The negative portion behind the ship would basically be like being chased by a white hole. And then there's what I'd refer to as the "spatial spring" effect. The warp field around the ship has to be released at some point and when it does the energy expended warping space needs to be released with it making what would be an absurd death ray nearly as powerful as some black hole's jets. If we accept the fact this is real and alien life exists, well this effect should be obvious across the entire universe.

[@sygnusadun4832]

I mean I would think it'd be impossible to detect negative energy with anything other than a neutrino detector. If a black hole has a point where light can no longer escape it, by the same token a negative energy "white hole" would have a threshold where light/matter could not approach it rendering it invisible to anything other than the ability to detect particle/energy deflections away from an "empty" point in space. As far as powering a drive like that the only thing that makes sense to me is to figure out a field emitter that functions like a fuel scoop harvesting neutrons before the ship out of the void and pushing them like an aerospike behind the ship creating areas of high and low relativistic densities.

[@zealotgamez7796]

Nice

[@CMDRGhostNappa]

We have at least 50 space video games with conventional warping. Can we get a video game focusing around this special warp drive. Can this comment get to game developers. Find out next time on Subject Zero.

[@koiyujo1543]

we could use thousands of pinnie traps to collect the anti matter in the earths belts just as the vid said by subject zero

[@MILENEO3]

Just for information: DR. Miguel Alcubierre is a mexican astrophysic from the UNAM university in Mexico City.

[@shatterscape]

Warp Drive is an All-American National invention. Go back to your Taquirea.

[@shatterscape]

Warp Drive is an All-American National invention.

[@TheShorterboy]

negative/low energy comes from casimir cavities

[@chazc7115]

No antimatter? Well we also thought splitting the atom was impossible at some point so.

[@errorhostnotfound1165]

Neat effects in the video, everything is so blurry tho :(

[@OO-un8ks]

No problem we have coffee cherenkov emissions and dosed neutrino intermixes

[@shawns0762]

If a ship travels at a constant 1g acceleration rate it would get to Alpha Centauri in 3.6 years (7.3 years would pass on Earth) and this includes turning the ship around halfway to decelerate. It would achieve about 95% light speed in 1 year. A 10 ton ship would require a mere 10 tons of continuous thrust. This is by far the fastest way we can get to other worlds and the ship would have gravity the whole way. All that is needed for this to become a reality is a fission rocket that can put out thrust for long periods and does not consume hydrogen. A true fission rocket should consume uranium or plutonium only. They are both jittery atoms that are on the verge of fissioning all by themselves. There should be a way to get them to fission in a linear fashion. What's needed is a controlled, time released nuclear explosion. In an atomic bomb fission occurs when neutrons hit uranium or plutonium nuclei. This is because they will not tolerate an increase in mass. Due to the equivalence of mass and energy the same should be true in you infuse them with energy. This might be as simple as having negatively charged uranium or plutonium atoms coming into contact with positively charged uranium or plutonium atoms. 1 kg of uranium contains the same potential energy as 120,000 tons of coal and plutonium has even more energy. Not much would be needed for the trip. With the constant acceleration method a ship can span the entire diameter of our galaxy in 24 ship/113,000 Earth years. Systems with stars similar to our sun can be reached in under 10 ship years.

[@NorbertKasko]

Sounds great until you think about the problem of spending YEARS on a spaceship. There is cosmic radiation, micrometeors the problem of keeping the crew alive (food, and water and pure air). Hibernation tech is also science fiction at the moment so people would be awake in deep space for years. I'm pretty sure there are other problems too.

[@quakeknight9680]

Will this be something that will help us conquer everything and anything?

[@ickorling7328]

Positive ultra short impulses. The video is right, we dont need exotic matter when we can create field interference of waves. The challenge once its impulsed fast enough will be the interference patterns. Say in space we spew ions out and create a flow reversed loop or orbital shell for ions to travel through in routes with charge or magnetic field based attraction or deflection.

[@danwilcox8833]

Have you tried using dilithium crystals?

[@picksalot1]

Changing the local density of Space by using Gravitational Waves might make Warp Speed possible. 🖖

[@Binderbird4X4Firebird]

I wrote a thesis that described the exact same principal in 1990.

[@jokubolakis6]

Can it be found online?

[@Robjigidbert]

whooo!

[@KaliFissure]

A) there's no such thing as negative mass. Even antimatter has regular mass. B) The only place in the universe with an energy density sufficient to create an EinsteinRosen bridge is an event horizon.

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

So we make a black hole drive then.

[@KaliFissure]

@TheCaptainSplatter if we could charge a black hole maybe? Then use a magnetic bottle? And then, if you could spin up a black hole you could maybe exploit that momentum.......

[@rtdietrich]

If some guy tells you something is impossible, run away quickly

[@Overneed-Belkan-Witch]

Because we don't have spices Yet

[@koiyujo1543]

we can only hope.... the most likely possible way rn is just STL travel even if slower than FTL it would still revolutionize all of space travel their other problems like radiation and photons that can't go faster than light and such the Ytber cool worlds did explain about that

[@ader701220]

Theory is, anything we humans can imagine we’ll make it happen in the future

[@forkoffgoogle]

Electrons are held to the nucleus of atoms by virtual photons which can't go faster than the speed of light so whatever you're going to make your warp drive out of it can't be atoms of any element because the virtual photons that hold it all together won't be able to keep up.

[@lazarusmagellan2367]

The whole point of a warp drive is to warp relativity around you, no?

[@johnlshilling1446]

Soooo.., can I update my calendar? I wouldn't want to miss the first flight.

[@mspeir]

Let's put negative energy aside, as well as it's intended use in this case. How would we use positive energy to contract space in front of the ship? Further more, wouldn't doing so create a gravity well and propel the ship forward? Most certainly not at FTL speeds, but forward nonetheless.

[@giulioww]

They should try to warp it like a fan

[@markdavid7013]

Wouldn't the bubble itself be traveling backwards in time? 🤔

[@coletrain3511]

I'm no physicist...I'm an automechanic...but speed of light is effectively the speed of "effect". A photon going the speed of light doesn't have any passage of time. So going FTL would be like arriving before you departed essentially. Take that with a grain of salt...I'm probably missing something important. But taking a "bubble" of space with you seems like you would avoid the problems of traveling light speed "through" soace....going FTL in that bubble would reverse causality....I think...but I could be full of shit 🤷‍♂️

[@briant7265]

Producing the little amount needed would cost 1,000 times the world's GDP, but if we mass produce it the unit cost might come down a little.

[@philipmetts8831]

O.K. so it shrinks the space in front and increases the space behind. The first time I heard about this was my car radio and I thought about it and realized that was exactly what my car was doing. Where's the magic in that?

[@michaelperrone3867]

the horizon problem is already solved: just use near fields - their parabolic solutions are effectively FTL

[@dloui5214]

i have one sitting at my garage

[@stephanledford9792]

In the Star Trek series, the problems with warp drive are no longer an issue - they work, and ships are able to go from no or little motion to faster than light in a fraction of a second. What keeps this from killing every human on the ship by mashing them into a stain against the back wall is something referred to as "inertial dampers", something never really explained but shown as a problem when they are offline. "Captain, we cannot go to warp speed because the inertial dampers are offline". My question concerns this concept of warp drive, where the ship is motionless (is it?) while space is "warped" around it. Does this get away from needing something like an "inertial damper", because if it doesn't, then it will take some time to go from sitting still in orbit around a planet to light speed, and this gradual acceleration will both take time and put stress on the human body. Keep in mind, that the process will need to be reversed as the ship nears its target - it cannot just stop instantly like it can in the Star Trek series.

[@4tonmike]

If the drive is using a controlled black hole like in this video, the concept itself might be used in inertial dampening.

[@rcamarda390]

Negative energy sounds like dark energy to me. Isnt it thought that dark matter/energy is the cause of the acclerated expansion of the universe?

[@kineticstar]

Okay, taking the negative energy out of the equation is cool and all, but how do you engineer the mass and power plant needed to move such mass, or god forbid stop such a vehicle?

[@Maverick966]

The vehicle actually never moves, it is the space that moves around it, so to stop it you just need to stop the warp drive.

[@kineticstar]

@Maverick966 negative, it's constantly falling forward due to the gravity well. This is not a folding engine.

[@memesfromtheforsakenworlwi9218]

Didn't even get a notification

[@CoolNitro1]

I believe your visual explanation of negative and positive space is slightly incorrect, what is actually happening is that the grid scale gets smaller within negative space and larger for positive space this has an effect on how we perceive light curving also time within negative compressed space grid slows, its the reason why clocks are slower on earth vs in space for example. In the case of the warp drive the goal is to compress and expand the space time grid to create something akin to the effect of riding a wave on a surfboard, in my opinion though if we manage to create an expanded space time bubble around an object it should allow that object to move up to instantly to the outside observer.

[@brocksprogramming]

First we need some place to travel to that fast.😅

[@quantumspark343]

there are plenty decent planets

[@brocksprogramming]

​@@quantumspark343 If there is one that isn't boiling or freezing then yes we should build a warp drive as soon as possible.

[@nonarKitten]

Crazy theory time: gravity is a dipole. "What?" I hear you say, "no it's not." Hear me out, it is, but its poles are at the same physical location in 3D space, they are only separate in 4D space. Or, the state of the poles are super-positioned over one another, but separate temporally. So to that, all we need is to split the poles in regular space. A boson beam splitter. And the energy required to do this may be far, far less than that of a Jupiter-worth of nuclear fusion.

[@oophyte]

So, you contract the space in front. We know how to do that, with gravity of course. And you also expand the space behind the spacecraft. We'll do that with anti-gravity. So, to invent warp drive, one just needs to invent anti-gravity. SO SIMPLE! :)

[@prilep5]

This can be used to make projectile for destroying planets

[@FarokhBulsara4065]

Gojo Satoru power be like

[@2Potates]

So what about that time DARPA supposedly created a warp field by accident?

[@koiyujo1543]

well yea um yea lol

[@MrZellious]

Hmmm... what about some how using gravity to bend the space infront and behind. Show how using an engine that can create artificial mass infront and behind. I dont think folding would be pleasible "Yet" i believe enveloping the ship would be better. But i by no means have the knowledge or resources too make this ever possible. Me in my thoughts...

[@johnhough7738]

Time travel other than what we are all doing right now ... now! ... NOW! ... okay, back then and in the future ... is and always will be impossible. Given a chance, would you go forward? Even as little as (say) one week? Or, possibly (no) safer (it's not) back? Whaddya reckon, would YOU do it?

[@richardcottone6620]

how about using two micro blackholes orbiting each other

[@asterlofts1565]

Please, talk about CRISPR.

[@minefacex]

I mean, if you explained modern microarchitecture of chips to an ancient greek, it would seem just as impossible :/

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

Chips are essentially just a collection of switches, you could easily explain them to ancient Greeks.. assuming you happen to speak ancient Greek, or possibly Latin.

[@sthenzel]

Maybe we should rather put our efforts in infinite improbabilty?

[@bretfuzz925]

Everything is impossible until it isn’t.

[@larscarter7406]

The problem with warp drive is nobody ever tried to go faster than 186.000 mph, or faster than the speed of light. Nobody tried because that is impossible. I believe it can be done. It can't be done because nobody tries.

[@ultravidz]

So to solve warp you needa solve antigravity which was always the holy grail to begin with.

[@drdca8263]

I thought the holy grail was the supposed cup which... err, was the idea that Jesus drank from it at the dinner before he was crucified, or that the blood+water that poured out when his side was pierced was supposedly put in it, or..? Something along these lines though