Can You Build A Warp Drive (In A Garage)?

[@theCodyReeder]

Warp drive? well that guy certainly hasn't, but a ion thruster yes.

[@michoeljones]

Haha cody!

[@ugenedc]

Cody, can you please build one! Oh, by the way, I am a beekeeper because of your amazing content. Check out my Instagram @brisbanebeebro

[@jkg6211]

Cody'sLab I'm not trying to demean or belittle your "opinion" in regards to your statement that, instead of creating a Warp Bubble, he created - in your own words - "an Ion thruster" ... Ion Thrusters PUSH - he claimed his experiment showed a PULL. (granted, that wasn't shown on THIS video) Please enlighten me as to your conclusion that it was merely a "thruster"??? IF he's correct about the mirror being out of alignment... then again, this video is old - but nonetheless, why would he volunteer to discredit himself if he didn't believe he had substantial evidence that could be recreated?

[@Snoigel]

why

[@nexus1g]

@@jkg6211 It happens all the time when a person making specious claims that never came to fruition. They just have so much time invested in a bad idea, that there's almost an ego attachment to it.

[@LeoMRogers]

hmm. Seemingly positive results when he does the experiment himself, but when a third party no such results are found, for which he gives an ad-hoc explanation. I feel like I've seen this pattern before.

[@stefancharon7082]

+LeoMRogers Ya, I got the same feeling. I want to believe that it is true, but this is not enough to convince me.

[@Syntherios]

+LeoMRogers It seemed too good to be true when they said he's on the verge of creating a space-warping machine in his garage. The Bermuda Triangle story (seriously? Is this Ancient Aliens or PBS?) and lack of results when the experiment is done in front of a third party confirmed my suspicion. tl;dr Dude's full of shit.

[@stefancharon7082]

I looked on the guys Facebook and he said that they found out afterwards that they had fried the wires on the engine from trying to give it to much power. Not enough for me to fully buy the warp drive, but at least it is a plausible excuse.

[@Rin-qj7zt]

i think there's something more meaningful in that video than just whether or not he's actually on the verge of creating a warp engine.

[@Helghastl33t]

+Syntherios I wouldn't be so sure if I were you, we also have the em drive experiments where some very capable researchers working out of well funded labs are getting results that appear to be breaking the laws of conservation of energy. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we find out that electromagnetism influences the geometry of space-time.

[@cj-seejay-cj-seejay]

I'm not convinced this guy will make a warp drive in his garage, but maybe he'll accidentally stumble upon some really cool innovation for some totally unrelated application. Something like that. I just want all the wacky dreamers of the world to end up happy.

[@moonlight293]

That's what I thinking. Even if he doesn't manage the warp drive, perhaps he can provide other things that help society

[@AssClappicus]

+slut4berniesanders oh for sure, dude. he has a dream, right? dreams never die!

[@Chocwish]

+slut4berniesanders The odds of him succeeding in what he's trying may be quite low BUT he's right when he says basically the common man can be doing this. Don't just leave it to NASA. More brains in the pot may get private enterprise interested and that's when real funding and progress is likely to be made. He's a pioneer in a revolution! (and if he finds something cool but unrelated that happens to get him rich .. bigger garage, here we come!)

[@ivain8704]

+slut4berniesanders I, too, doubt he'll make a functional warp drive. but it may be that he's taken the first step that will allow us to progress on the issue. As for energy, Germany is going to be experimenting with a new type of fusion generator in the next few months/year. If that has even a slightly positive energy return, it means nuclear fusion is viable, and the Star Trek warp drive is one step closer.

[@Stabacs]

+Ivain wendelstein 7x?

[@bndkllr2763]

i know his warp drive didn't work very well this time, but i think it will get better. Once he fine-tunes the dark energy condenser and focuses the alpha tensor along the positron integral augmentation sheath, we will see more thrust. I have been trying this technique with a smaller set-up using guinea pigs but to no avail. I hope by this time next year I can take my dad to the moon for a day with this new spacecraft. Keep up the great work!

[@juststeveschannel]

I enjoy your willingness to consider possibilities without suggesting that these are "truths," and in fact you left it pretty clear that this guy is not a very credible scientist, but seems to be a sincere and sort-of knowledgeable guy chasing his dream. Even if he's totally removed from reality, that kind of thinking is worth giving some attention to now and then, if only to inspire those with their feet more firmly rooted in reality.

[@HisCarlnessI]

If he can reproduce the results in a vacuum chamber, I'll give him some credit.

[@patman0250]

he couldn't even do it with out one.

[@KerbalChris]

patman0250 true because there would be no way to get accidental positive gaseous ions that would attract to the electrons in the foil causing thrust other wise know as an ion drive

[@KerbalChris]

patman0250 true because there would be no way to get accidental positive gaseous ions that would attract to the electrons in the foil causing thrust other wise know as an ion drive

[@Yzov]

Not to be "that" guy, but isn't it a bit suspicious that as soon as they started to film it, it didn't work, but when David filmed it himself, it worked. I smell something fishy! Why is it that things have to break down when trying to prove something that is controversial.

[@Thrall079]

His explanation for the mirror reminded me of James Hydrick being exposed by James Randi saying the styrofoam pellets gave off static electricity

[@yaosio]

+Yzov I don't understand the point of the laser. It's already on a scale and it can measure the change in weight, so is the laser there just because they think science uses lasers all the time, or is it so somebody can manipulate it?

[@Saibrock]

+Noah LeFoot It's possible that using the laser allows for more precise measurements than their scale can detect, or that the compression of space would alter the geometry of the scale, rendering its readings unreliable. I actually don't buy this guy's idea, anyways, but the laser seems to be a good idea.

[@kayvee256]

+Noah LeFoot My guess is that the laser is there to measure the difference between _thrust_ and _compressing spacetime_ If the engine is generating thrust, that will reveal itself as a force measured by the scale with _no_ change to the path of the laser. If the engine is compressing space, that will reveal itself both as a force measured by the scale _and_ changing the path of the laser. That said, just with Yzov, and Thrall079, I agree that it is suspicious that it didn't work when filmed, and that the excuses came so quickly post-hoc when the demonstration failed. It gives it the smell of an experiment tainted by observer bias. The good news is that the setup that they have running should be easily open to blinded trials. It should be simple enough to create 'engines' that contain a secret box that will bypass the circuit. Each 'engine' has a number. The experimenter taking the measurement doesn't know which engines are real and which are control. If the effect is real and reproducible, then it should be simple enough to prove. Until it's proven, no-one's under any obligation to accept the claimed result. I strongly doubt that this will ever happen. But on the off chance I'm wrong, I hope for his case that he's got a patent out on that thing. :)

[@anteconfig5391]

+Yzov It's the will of the demo gods

[@Roxor128]

As soon as he said it produced a pull, I immediately asked "In a vacuum?" Then we see it being tested in the air. I suspect the pull is due to ionising the air and the pressure difference between the ionised air below and the air pressing down from above is what's resulting in the readings. Now, if the results were achieved in a vacuum, I might be willing to give this guy some more serious consideration, but as it stands, nope.

[@AFGalwayz]

i have a working warp drive in my garage. it just doesn't work when its being observed by anything but myself.

[@Misiulo]

Misiulo 1 sekundę temu Great. You can prove it going some places faster than light when noone is watching.

[@Constantinesis]

Or by anyone at all LOL

[@KynIsKool]

Ahh yess. The coveted schrodinger drive.

[@anarchyantz1564]

It is like particles, it is observer dependant you see.

[@markt7289]

I can turn invisible but only when no one is around.

[@juanenfermobastardo337]

Just the fact that Dr Pares is making the attempt and is willing to expose his ideas and the results of his efforts to peer review has real value.

[@Qthedude16]

He went through a thunderstorm and found himself way off course? thats called wind.

[@westonlake1084]

+That guy in the comments google solar winds they exist. tho not the same thing.

+Qthedude16 I was surprised too that this wasn't addressed in their summary, and that an experienced pilot would discount that possibility.

[@neeneko]

+Qthedude16 wind and having more important things to pay attention to.

[@chrisb2e9]

+Qthedude16 There is a video somewhere on that specific incident. Basically, if no one is lying. Then there is no way that he could have ended up where he was(that we know of). I don't know if I believe the story. But if it is true, then it's pretty interesting to watch.

[@johannesvahlkvist]

+Chris Johnson a storm is pretty disorienting, i think it's quiet possible he just wasn't sure where he was, or mabe he had a broken intrument without knowing.

[@GrimSausy]

If he does get it working in the future it would be nice to see an update episode

[@FirstRisingSouI]

If you have a BS detector, it should be beeping like crazy right now. Here's why: 1: His best evidence for the existence of space warping is second-hand testimony from plane pilots. 2: He conveniently forgot to mention that a spatial compression within the earth's atmosphere, the like of which would send an airplane 90 miles off course, would wreak havoc with atmospheric pressure. This would at minimum cause insane winds, and at maximum cause devastating earthquakes, tsunamis, and storms. 3: He conveniently didn't mention that the Alcubierre drive requires negative energy. The only known instance of negative energy in the universe is on the atomic scale, and not produced by thunderstorms. 4: Techno-babble. When he describes what he's doing, it doesn't make any sense. It's like claiming to have a bucket of plaid paint. 5: In a high-tech garage, the "proof" is a low-quality video of a laser dot moving. He doesn't explain the theory, or how the device works; he only claims that what happens in the video is what is supposed to. 6: If it doesn't work because of a misaligned mirror, fix the damn mirror and try again! 7: It's supposed to work based on the circuit, not the mirror. He just made up some bogus explanation for why it didn't work. 8: As Matthew said, "it's important to lay out your ideas very clearly. And that means writing it up as a paper and subjecting it to peer review." No, your empirical results don't speak for themselves. Only after they are successfully demonstrated and replicated will they speak.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

PERFECT analysis! Bravo!

[@TheFlyMan]

Nerd

[@mike42441]

Well, thunderstorms produce lots of negative ions, right? Well... there's your negative energy right there! And as for that red laser dot, I'm pretty sure, as well as fairly certain for the most part, that I saw it move ever so slightly upward, despite the mirror being off. And there you have it - warpdrive! Of course I'm being facetious, but hey don't knock it, great things have started in garages, like Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, or even greats like CCR, The Who, or R.E.M. and the list goes on and on. So I give this guy and his team the highest accolades for following their passion, experimenting, thinking outside of the box, and doing something productive & interesting with their time, while never giving up and sharing their ideas online! Now do I really think it's possible to build a warpdrive using hardware and lumber from Home Depot... of course not, but it's fun to daydream!!

[@KerbalChris]

mike morris they produce electrons.

[@stacyfamily]

negative energy could be created by low density positive mass and amplified if a 4th or 5th dimension exists. I think.

[@wernerboden239]

I think it is possible to build a warp drive. But you probably need a much bigger garage. Most likely, we have not even properly investigated the properties of elements in our periodic table. There's still plenty to discover and I think it is great we have people tinkering in their garage. There can allways be something unexpected around the corner. Unfortunately, many ppl waisted their lives on this stuff, without accomplishment. Best thing is, to regard it as a fun hobby. Tinker on !

[@Skip6235]

Okay, I'm sorry, I think it's awesome to be doing engineering and building things in your garage, bu this just screams pseudoscience. He never explained how the motor works besides some hand-waving "electricity bends space-time because thunderstorms". Einstine's equations are supremely robust, and there is no way that even the energy density of a lightning bolt, let alone home equipment can bend space-time enough to have a measurable difference.

[@Skip6235]

Also, if you go to Pares' website, he claims to have witnessed a UFO. As much as I would want this to be real, I just don't think he has any credibility. Besides, any FTL travel by warp drive may be impossible because you could theoretically use it to violate causality

[@Psychodegu]

+Skip6235 How would it violate causality?

[@Skip6235]

Psychodegu I am not a physicist, so I'm sure that there are much better explanations out there (including on SpaceTime, the episode before the one linked in this video is about causality). But the way it was explained to me at the simplest level is that the equations that Alcubierre used in his paper can also be used to travel backwards in time, and quantum mechanics says that you cannot do that. There are also other issues. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

[@FleetAdmiralDouglas]

+Skip6235 Perhaps he did witness a UFO, UFO does not automatically mean ALIENS!!! after all. It just means that he could not tell what the flying thing was, this was also in the middle of the cold war so it could have been a spy plane. I see those kinds of things all the time. I also have a theory that traveling back in time is not really traveling back in time but going to another universe. This is my solution to the grandfather paradox, this way, you can kill your grandfather before your father is conceived and still be there to do it because you are from a separate universe. This may also be a reason why we do not see any time travelers from our future because when they try to go back in time to our present or past they end up in another universe instead.

[@brandonwiebe2647]

FleetAdmiralDouglas damn that’s actually a pretty credible answer

[@JosipMiller]

I admire that guy. I work in science as an electronics engineer and that is most exciting job. To this date I created more than dozen instruments for variety of sciences (physics and chemistry in the first place). I got huge experience doing stuff the way he does but that ensures much more creativity and flexibility than being showered with money and actually lose this creativity and motivation. There is also a strange effect when equipment and entire system stop working when investors or other group of people in charge come to see the results. That actually happened to my colleague when laser system they built just went dead when group of people from investing company came to see how it works. Many good things came from borderline or even preposterous ideas. Think only what would happen if you go to group of people from 18th century and talk about radio. There would be only handful of people on Earth who would not think of you as insane (or a witch or warlock).

[@PDionneGosselin]

For the bahamas pilot: If the wind was blowing in the same direction, that would easily explain both the time and fuel usage. Is a natural warp drive REALLY the most logical explanation here?

[@l.clevelandmajor9931]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the amount of time the shift in position happened was too short to be explained by winds. According to certain documented sources, the plane disappeared off the radar at a certain point in time, and reappeared on the radar 90 miles from where it disappeared just a short time later; far too short a time for even the wind to carry the plane that far. I would say that constitutes a real unexplained event, if all the people involved in the story are being truthful. And I don't think everybody involved could or should be called liars.

[@patman0250]

not exactly it doesn't explain being 90 miles away from where he should of been and at the speed he was travelling. wind blowing will not trick the planes speedometer he maintained a constant speed and from where he started it was impossible to be where he ended up. Its not that hard to comprehend dude! in other words to end up where he was with the speed he was travelling and the time it took to get there. Its been calculated to travel that far in that short amount of time hed had to be traveling a little over 1000mph now you tell me what's another explanation !!! to travel 90miles extra with in 5 minutes time you do the math. a plane like that!!?? impossible.

[@edgeofforever7720]

As he was talking about the thunderstorm and the lightning all I could think about was "flux capacitor" (if a flux capacitor works like a real capacitor) and 1.21 gigawatts.

[@JimJWalker]

Why is everyone so skeptical, he isn't selling shares in some scam. He is doing science in his garage. Go for it I say!

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Not really. If he were REALLY doing science in his garage, he would be looking for all the things that MIGHT explain his results, and then in a methodical manner, eliminate those sources of error.

[@robinhyperlord9053]

Trolls are atheists.

[@caleblimb3275]

If there's anything we've learned from alternative medicine, it's that you can't trust anecdotal evidence. The same applies here. Don't bet me wrong, I am excited at the possibility of a warp drive; I've just seen to many claims like this to believe the results and expectations stated.

[@kaptenhiu5623]

what the hell is this?! It is more believable that Gernon's navigational system going haywire during thunderstorm and he was dragged by the storm than to believe that he was going through some sort of wormhole, appeared from nowhere in the middle of a hurricane

[@DARKFlREMOOCOW]

I started watching this video about an hour and a half ago.... But then i checked out PBS Space Time... and I'm finally finishing it.

[@TiMSKiii]

A star trek version of George Lucas, lmao

[@popculture70]

Next up... can you build a teleporter in your kitchen using two microwave ovens?

[@ZianiVaatzes]

so he just assumes that a lightning storm caused the effects, and proceeds to recreate those conditions without exploring WHY IN THE WORLD a lightning storm would cause a warp in space-time? are we just missing some of the picture here? also to echo how sketchy and dubious that whole 'experiment' was, i mean their response to unexpected results is just lazy rationalization with no attempt to actually find out what happened and why?? come on man

[@roughlygalaxy]

THIS.

[@prancer71]

Both neutral and charged plasmas cause distortion of space time (as does any electromagnetic or H-space (i. e. gravitational) field).

[@prancer71]

High energy neutral plasmas can distort the surrounding spacetime sufficiently enough to cause spatio-temporal dilation

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

@@prancer71 nigga any matter can cause distortion in space time. Famous example: g r a v i t y.

[@sjl-s7q]

It’s be really great if someone knowledgeable (like the creators of this channel for gods sake??!) would do the calculations to determine the scale of energy required in a plasma field to create then tens of miles displacement suggested by this anecdote, and whether that is within the realm of possibility for a thunderstorm. I mean really, I can’t believe how loosey goosey this “scientific” channel played with the “science” in this episode.

[@dorzsboss]

"there is no such limit on the speed that two regions of space can move apart from each other" Well that is exactly what the recently discovered gravitational waves do. Unfortunately they are not faster than lightspeed, so the warp drive theory will probably fail.

[@gephc4]

A warp drive in a garage?! Yeah ok, I'll buy that. I also know a guy with a cloning machine in his apartment.

[@kristoffer3075]

Pretty unlikely that it will work, but seeing as he seems like a pretty empirically minded guy, I'm glad he's doing it. If he fails, it doesn't matter to us, if he succeeds, we're all better off.

[@DanielFoland]

11:38 actually, repeatable empirical results speak for themselves.

[@ElCineHefe]

Best of luck to every garage physicist turned engineer. Historically, that's where all the major inventions originate.

[@markzambelli]

"Can you build a Warp Drive in your garage?"... well obviously not. He refuses to publish, relys on some video footage as 'evidence' and can't even reproduce his 'effect' when it really counts... I'm amazed you gave this well-meaning(?) crank any bandwith at all!

[@DrysonBennington1]

It's awesome that people are doing experiments like the warp drive in their own garage.

[@NeonsStyleHD]

I would love for this to be able to work in garage, and that solutions like this can be found in a garage. However I really doubt it can be done. As he said, submit a paper for review. As long as you refuse to do that, then it can't be taken seriously. Also, if you were serious about this, the first thing you need to do is stabilise that laser from any and all vibrations other than those from the experiment. Also, instead of using a spring (lol), use an accelerometer, you'll get much finer measurements. Those two things together should then make it reproduceable every time. If it's not, then something else is moving the laser.

[@sirius8ly]

I firmly believe in what David Pares is doing. I have been following this field for the last 6 years and I believe he's dead on.

[@Staminist-MMF-80]

It's the end of 2018 and still nothing.... I thought so..

[@VerisimilitudeDude]

Dude, you need negative energy to even contemplate a warp drive and 4 months ago they finally achieved that... Well, close. They created negative mass, which is close enough, since mass and energy are interchangeable.

[@blank6604]

@@VerisimilitudeDude if they have -m, why they dont build a Perpetomobile?

[@VerisimilitudeDude]

@Yannick Karges First of all, there is no _if_ , just look it up for yourself ya lazy ass. Secondly, perpetual motion? That has nothing to do with positive or negative mass. You can't have perpetual motion because of friction. And yes, there is even friction in the vacuum of space. Why? Simple, there is micro meteorites, solar wind, even space itself creates some drag believe it or not.

[@blank6604]

@@VerisimilitudeDude +m atracts -m -m disatracts +m So you cood make an infinity moving Objekt [even if ther is so mutch it wood Stop an normal non exallerating Space Ship. ]

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

I really was hoping to see him pass a drone through his house from one side to the other, without going through the house. If someone figures out phase shift technology that also functions as FTL, and does that at home, in a garage, with conventional electronics, and batteries, well - that would earn 1 like click ! If they sell the FTL phase shift drones as toys, I would subscribe.

[@OmarDrake]

As I sit here, watching this on a MacBook Pro, I'm totally appreciating this.

[@morningmadera]

I thought this was brought to us by PBS ... not UFO, bermuda triangle, History Channel ... isn't they will all the bogus stories? Or maybe I just have high expectations from PBS to get us realistic science stories and facts/evidence ...

[@amaureaLua]

+CeaoS I agree. I came here from a link in a PBS Spacetime video. PBS Spacetime is refereshingly accurate, but I'm a bit disturbed that they would link to a video that gives such an uncritical treatment of extremely dubious physics. Here are some questions that should have been asked: "How, in precise detail, would we go about replicating your experiment?", "What are the most important sources of error, and how have you tested whether you have overcome them?", "What alternative explanations have you explored?", "In what other settings should this effect have been seen? Why, for example, haven't experiments with enormously more powerful electromagnetic fields noticed any warp bubbles?".

[@proffessasvids]

Em drive is now peer reviewed.. that uses microwave resonance.. everyone said it was hogwash but it actually runs lol. This guy is doing a similar thing just without the resonant chamber. I say let him get on with it. We need people like this to experiment. He may very well increase the efficiency of his device to it's limit and realise it will never have enough force or on the other hand he may find a particular geometry of his Ariel that turns out to be scalable and of use to humanity. I say go on sir and well done! Xx

[@TylerMatthewHarris]

The first thing that came to mind was "poppycock", the second thing that came to mind was " 'poppycock' is a pretty weird word", the third thing was I'd like to see what those fractal things do to metal shavings

[@DontMockMySmock]

Matt O'Dowd showed a lot of restraint in this video. I could tell he wanted to say "this dude's a crackpot."

[@KiddsockTV]

It could be that Drive is creating a Magnetic Field and being pulled down by gravity thus moving the mirror down. But hard to tell. Plus... Someone Give this guy 1 Billion Dollars!!!

[@dracrichards734]

I really loved this episode. Thank you for it. Also new subscriber sent from pbs spacetime.

[@loungelizard836]

It looks like what he's discovered is that when you put metal in a strong electric field you can deflect it. Not exactly rocket science!

[@cherminatorDR]

Sadly, yes.

[@stayfrosty8470]

I have never been more disappointed. That there man just broke my heart.

[@johannesvahlkvist]

theres just 1 problem tho. the aLIGO gravitational wave observatory is able to detect compressions in the fabric of space down to the width of a millionth of an atom. as we know it has recetly detected an event a few billio lightyears away. i'm fairly certain tht if such an event, even if much much smaller, took place here on earth, we would know about it.

[@klusenschmiedmike5157]

You want a warp drive like the Enterprise in TNG? - No problem. Take some small electromotors, several cardboard tubes and some aluminium foil and red and blue LEDs or other lightsources. Glue the alufoil to the tubes (do it WRINKLY not smooth and even) and connect the motors to the tubes. Now focus the blue lights to the rotating alufoil-tubes and watch the magic...thats all you need. Switch to RED if you intend to "overload" your warpdrive.

[@CoffeeRushToast]

Here in my garage, with my new warp drive.

[@edgeofforever7720]

But you know what I love more than my warp drive?

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

@@edgeofforever7720 What do you love more than your warp drive?

[@edgeofforever7720]

@@theultimatereductionist7592 Porridge. I like to eat at least one bowl per day.

[@robinhyperlord9053]

Your name with your icon...

[@VerisimilitudeDude]

Lol I love how your name is Straight White Male but your avatar is that of a black guy 😄

[@theemissary1313]

Yeah, im sceptical about the whole space time warping effect coming from an electromagnetic source as they are different fundamental forces, but I think he is making some headway in some form of propulsion. On that one then, I wish him good luck :)

[@tiagozortea]

Oh please... peer reviewed or it never happened.

[@MrRamziaB]

"We do this every day, and get amazing results!" "Cool, can I see it?" "Well I can only do it once a day, and I did it this morning already." "Yeahhhhhhhhhhh science!!!!!"

[@Nictator42]

This motor looks more like an over-complicated ionocraft than a warp drive.

[@filipmaksimovic5012]

Sure, with lots and lots and lots of energy, he could contract space-time. However, he would also need to expand space-time, and that requires negative energy, that has only been indirectly detected in tiny quantities. Also, if he just contracts space, he contracts time too, and would cause time dilation.

[@mryusuf6086]

Ur dumb the energy is already in space but nasa doesnt let us build it

[@TruthHurts_]

It's 2016 now..

[@farenhite4329]

Lee Kennedy 2017

[@mk17173n]

2018

[@shonaoneill5151]

mk17173n watching this in 2746.....It worked (pfffft)

[@456death654]

2079

[@FriKuShAxP]

2021 still no fly tests

[@aekaydubs]

This reminded me of Radiolab--a little off beat, really interesting, different approach I wouldn't expect to find anywhere else, well-produced. I could go on. Well done, guys.

[@JerradZonna]

HAHA just like the ship in futurama YES!!!!

[@darrishawks6033]

I have to point out that this sounds very much like the way the spaceship from futurama works. I remember Professor Farnsworth saying something like "it doesn't move through the universe, it moves the universe around it" lol

[@dancetweety10]

Strange that he cant replicate his result when they are there. Smells like hoax to me. What we see in the movie he made him self can be manipulated in so many way.

[@jr52990]

4:08 PBS Space time guy!!!!

[@JustinAlexanderBell]

What a load of crap.

[@tomhenderson8035]

I'm pretty sure that this is an electromagnetic effect rather than anything to do with Alcubierre this guy is doing some cool stuff for sure.

[@SALSN]

Are the plans for this drive published anywhere, have anyone tried to replicate these results and is there some explanation to how high voltages can warp space time? Also, what is up with the weird way of measuring thrust, just read it of the newton meter? This guy seems to believe what he is doing is working, I'm not convinced, however I really hope that I'm wrong, I really want to go to Mars and the Moon too!

[@simonsolheim158]

+Simon Als Nielsen. Just what i thought! Seems like ha added a laser just to make it seem more "fancy/sciencey".

[@TedPercival]

A laser shooting across the room can significantly amplify the visual effect of air circulating in the room and tilting the device, such as might occur from a door closing or convection currents from the garage door heating up in the sun.

[@PalmBeachARFF]

Any follow up on this story?

[@Luboman411]

I'm an immigrant, and this is why I LOVE this country and why I LOVE living here. Because only in the United States, and nowhere else in the world, could you utter a sentence like, "A warp drive may be sitting in a garage in Omaha, Nebraska," and actually take it half-seriously. Never underestimate the optimism and ingenuity of Americans--these people will get things done with practicality, inventiveness, obsession and just plain stubbornness.

[@mike42441]

It's 3/8/19. Any progress on the warpdrive yet?

[@testrun9679]

with the amount of air moving he should had landed in Poland. That would have been fun to explain

[@IncertusVeritas]

We can thank "garage inventors" for a lot of great tech we're using today... They've pretty much changed our lives.

[@Videot99]

This was 5 years ago now. Any new results? Damn, Radio Shack is gone...but there's always Digikey and Mouser. I've recently learned that my concepts about the relationship between energy and space have always been backwards. i always assumed that space was able to contain and transmit energy, but I've now learned that apparently space is actually a property of the vacuum energy; without the energy the space would not exist. This has helped me understand how mass could warp space/time; it's actually warping the fields that form the underlying fabric of space. Given this shift in consciousness (if correct) this kind of drive actually seems feasible.

[@telotawa]

Here in my garage, just built this new warp drive here, but you know what I like a lot more than space travel? knawledge

[@tho2ea]

We know the term "rocket scientist" thanks to Robert Goddard, it's a crime how overlooked his work is in popular culture, Anyone that watches the Hitler channel, (I mean history channel) thinks the Germans invented the field, when they largely just rediscovered his ideas which were mainly ignored over here. Seriously, I LOVED this episode! PLEASE think about stretching this out into an hour long video, mainly because of the David Pares story, especially the insights into what drives him to do what he does with little reward or recognition, I was moved by that and would love to see something like that happen. Kudos for bringing back Laura Kreidberg again!

[@Thrall079]

Pshh shit I wish they'd talk about Hitler again, better than this ancient alien horseshit

[@rrio695]

Sure why not? Sounds like a good explanation. It would certainly explain some mysteries.

[@tho2ea]

All the strong responses and questions about David Pares in the comments just goes to show there's a lot of interest in what he's trying to do for good or bad, I feel he HAS to be on to something. That's a LOT of sacrifice and obvious love in what he's doing for the compensation involved, which looks like a big nada. Why can't a regular guy be a part of science even with some mistakes? Failure is par for the course in science, and historically breakthroughs came from individuals. It's cool to think about individual contributions in an era where there are few real pioneers because of the availability of information, it seems like we need to go back or reconstruct how science and even academia conducts itself other than by huge firms trying to make a lot of money. It seems silly to defend what some oddball does in his garage, especially when it's creating rockets, but that's exactly how things used to be done, and gave Americans an edge in the past.

[@JavierEzcurra]

Being criticized for your claims is how science works. Every claim must be scrutinized and hold up to said scrutiny. Skepticism towards this guy and his claims is not not letting "a regular guy be a part of science" , in fact it's the opposite - were involving him in the purest form of science. If he wants to be taken seriously, he needs to publish his methods for anyone to reproduce in their own garages.

[@petermiller5573]

+ThomEA Love for what he's doing is great but it in no way implies the guy has to be on to anything. There are plenty of self-taught scientists who are passionate about building a perpetual motion machine or proving Einstein wrong, but they're still wrong. Science does not need to be restructured so that amatures can make major contributions. There's nothing preventing it now except for the fact that the easy stuff has mostly already been done. It's no conspiracy that the only people who can afford large particle accelerators and gene sequencers are large institutions.

[@tho2ea]

Javier Ezcurra You're absolutely right, he should do all that,why would I argue?BTW the purest form of science is really about the ability to say 'I don't know' He's asking the fundamental questions in a field no one knows all the answers to, it's that simple.

[@tho2ea]

Peter Miller As far as I know, Einstein worked alone. And it's the government that funds those things for public education institutions, the one you I and everyone pays taxes for.

[@petermiller5573]

ThomEA Sure, Einstein came up with his theories without an expensive lab. You just need the formal education to get you started. I was talking about experimental science mostly.

[@l.clevelandmajor9931]

My Grandparents taught me to "Never say 'Never'." Also, a lot of the greatest breakthroughs in technology came from folks working out of their garages or some similar room. So I say "Don't count anybody out of the running for developing a working Warp Drive System!" I do believe it can work, and I think it is very possible that it already exists on Earth, and may even have been used already to leave Earth or even Sol System. We do know that our government agencies like to keep the top technologies from being known to the general public. And as far as the Physicists are concerned, I don't put much stock in a community that is always towing the party line.

[@PatrickAlbers]

I love this spirit! Because this is the spirit of science. I wish him all the best to succeed, and probably going to cry (happiness!) if he does.

[@dlorde]

So, a spacetime warp in a thunderstorm that only transports the aircraft, but not vast quantities of the moisture-laden air through which it was flying? (which would cause some very odd weather effects at the 'destination', which you'd think someone [the pilot?] would notice). But hey, if what the pilot described sounds a bit like a hypothetical warp drive it must be one, right?

[@richardrose7382]

Wonder how this turned out. Really would like to see a warp drive developed

[@piotrwiniarski]

The Good Stuff guy was stressed, right leg was shaking allll the time :). Nice video.

[@lostincyberspaceIII]

Oh My goodness this is amazing if they can get it working to a great extent

[@paulmakinson1965]

I made some remote controlled model Enterprise spaceships and lost them all, as soon as they hit warp speed, they go faster than the radio waves from the remote control and they disappear into the vastness of space...

[@xXGamingFactorXx]

Here in my garage, just got this new warp drive here, but you know what I like more than warp drives? Knowledge. Sorry, nobody did it so I had to :)

[@consciousenergies]

As a crazy dreamer who tinkers in a makeshift lab, I can relate to this dude. A 3rd party witness, to ensure his feelings dont cloud the experiment is always necessary. That is the true meaning of peer review isn't it? I found a way to monitor 2000 watt power for my experiment into fusion. I dont have the means currently, to afford the equipment. Its all open sourced if anyone is interested in looking at my vids. What I would suggest as an improvement NASA can do is in material science, using quasi-crystalline structures as the waveguide. The first fun experiment I might try is seeing what conditions certain quasi crystals resonate at fundamentally. How do the tilling of the crystals respond to electrodynamic stimulation? Ofcourse acess to a CVD machine, and things of that nature, is out of the hands of most experimenters. Thank you for the pleasant video.

[@yassinosewe172]

I know how to do it. It involves magnetic force and wireless electric transmissions to create the bubble. However, an even faster way to travel is if you cancel space time completely and enter a different dimension. I believe thats what affects the triangle. Space time is reduced to a degree. In my opinion....

[@haydenlewis5592]

sir did it work

[@erikweeks8949]

Sir, I am impressed by your creativity and fortitude. I was wondering if this experiment can be replicated in a vacuum, or more specifically (based on obvious budget restrictions) a low/er atmosphere environment? like a modified vacuum bell of some sort?

[@Ozkar7avo164]

Thank you for the video about warp drive. Good job

[@mihapavsic5842]

Nice experiment. I admire people who are willing to sacrifice their time and money trying to achieve what NASA and other space companies gave up. Take it as hunt for lost treasure that must exist, regardless that we do not know how the final solution looks like. What I recommend, is not to stick just with one idea. Think, reconfigure, learn during building and testing experiments!

[@michealdavis9884]

I can see the logic behind the the man we need more people like that love to meet him

[@zax1998LU]

Quite an inspiration. Might try something myself

[@Jolly_Rodger]

Today is August of 2020 and I just came back from Sirius. It took me two weeks, but the the star and planets were worth it. Great idea, just one problem. Space is not something material (doesn't have any physical properties) and that's why can't be warped, compressed or anything else. But keep dreaming I hope you'll come up with something.

[@crocaduck]

The problem is that, in order to create an expansion of space behind the craft and a compression of space in the front, one would require a massive amount of energy or/and a massive amount of mass. This in itself will bend or compress spacetime and so the 'warping' will occur around the center of mass/energy one will be using. You can't 'hide' the mass or energy your about to use.

[@VPXM2012]

...massive amounts of mass (lol), is a problem and wouldn't work. Electricity on the other hand, can produce enough power, but that "directly" doesn't do anything of the sorts mentioned in the video. You need specialty materials and high voltage capacitors with pulsing capabilities as a start.

[@54m0h7]

I think we are all naturally sceptical of such experiments, and it's a shame it didn't seem to work. I would recommend 3 things: Video record every test run. Even if you do hundreds in a day, be rigorous and record. Second, once you think you got it working reliably build a vacuum chamber to test the model in. You need to rule out any and all other possible variables from it's motion. Lastly; You need a better way of measuring it than a unfocused laser. I don't know if it was just the camera, but the laser seemed to have a few centimetres diameter on the measuring paper. Maybe a camera in a fixed parallel position recording the actual 'puller' would be better. Though I'm sceptical I do hope it leads to success.

[@Sage4x4]

My god. Her voice is heavenly. I could listen to her all day ^_^

[@mandolinic]

"OK, I'm engaging (the motor)." A small homage to Jean-Luc!

[@vladi1475S]

The some of the most revolutionary discoveries were actually made in garages! Never underestimate research in garages! 😎😆

[@Gwalchgwyn]

Can you trap Santa Claus with an inflatable reindeer? Same answer as this video, essentially. Can you build an ion thruster in your garage? Not the same question. O.o

[@VPXM2012]

... building ion thrust is easy (already tons of YT videos on that). Building a warp drive, to my knowledge, requires at least a large amount of electricity... so unless you actually own electric plant, it's a no go lol And that's only for a push. Creation of a spheroid field, for you not to die, requires more thought than any video here will explain.

[@Nesetroll]

There is such a thing as confirmation bias. A pilot's description correlating with a theory, does not imply causation. However, if this works, go for it!

[@ryanm7263]

So he had a weird experience in the Bermuda triangle and now claims to have generated a warp field in his garage that he can't reproduce on camera? Seems legit.

[@emilaliskanovic]

How is this not to be taken a bit, crazy? I mean he can't even demonstrate it when they're there and just says: "it was because of that thing that happend to the thing yesterday, right peter(or whatever his buddy was called", and he's like:"um....yeah..."

[@twelge15]

I give this guy alot of credit, and he should never give up. But, I think were going to have to be able to visualize the space-time fabric in three & four dimensions first, which might enable us to finally understand gravity. This is decades/centuries away. Instead of looking at a two dimensional rubber surface with a heavy ball in the middle representing a gravity well, we would have to somehow (future VR, perhaps) visualize hypercubes woven together in a 3D fabric and see how their shapes are altered by a gravity well (mass at rest) or mass passing through it. The LIGO telescope will also probably find gravity waves in the near future. Wouldn't we need to know their shapes, sizes amplitudes, wavelengths first??

[@Ghostowl657]

+twelge15 We do not need to visualize 4D spacetime to understand it. Almost nobody, even physicists can visualize quantum mechanics, but we are able to predict things pretty well. General relativity provides the way to conceptualize spacetime using math. The ball on rubber sheet is just used to help laymen understand because there is no other (easy) way to visualize gravity. Also LIGO is not a telescope, it uses lasers and wave interference to detect gravitational waves.

[@ericpeterson6520]

The movie Primer is a perfect example of why messing with spacetime in your garage might be a bad idea.

[@195Razorc]

Um...no repeatability yet.... good luck, I hope you get there....! I would avoid voicing the space travel aspirations... sound bad....

[@pauljs75]

Laser offset by a mirror isn't all bad to get measurements, but a laser interferometer in a vacuum under controlled anti-vibration conditions are what you need to really look for warp. So far the one system that seemingly has shown an effect in that regard is the experimental microwave cavity (EM) drive. (Or similar variants.) It's seeing a small distortion field as the beam passes nearby. This guy's stuff may have some parallels in prinicples behind it, but he needs to test it in the same manner. Don't measure for the load on a scale, but rather how much light can be bent in the space around it when anything with optical properties (air or other gases) is mostly removed. (Sorry, but NASA is the one place that has lab equipment like that. I doubt that'll fit in a typical garage.) I don't think we should discount warp, but I don't think it's going to produce a usable thrust here on Earth at low power either. Rather this is something that would be used in microgravity with slow acceleration, as it would eliminate the need for reaction mass. Still this may be one of the few ways of getting to another star under the century mark. However there is one crazy idea for an experiment I think that may be related and can be done at a garage-shop level. Freefall testing of charged or non-charged capacitors with attached solenoids. If there's any possiblility of gravito-electric coupling under the right conditions, I suspect that may be one way to test for it. (Gravity acting on neutral objects may be a bit different than when acting on charged. If you can slow or curve the trajectory, with nothing other than a steady or pulsed magnetic field - that might be of interest.) If you can produce and verify such effect, I suspect it could be exploited to produce a more improved warp field. (My suspicion is that there are ways to affect the resistance and permitivity of space itself, and along with it the propagation of gravitational fields. Some parallels to surface tension, and it also has lensing effects. And more or less this is what the energy-density of what we call matter is doing.)