What Does Hyperspace Really Look Like? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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Star Wars taught us that jumping to hyperspace isn’t like dusting crops, but did they not show it to us correctly? Kyle shows us the light on this week's Because Science!
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[@Nerdist]

Could Greedo ever really shoot first? New mini episode over on my Insta (instagram.com/sci_Phile/). Thanks for watching! -- KH

[@killer13324]

Could you do an episode on the Halo Pelican Dropship from halos 1-Reach?

[@gonnabeadoctorsoon2]

Nerdist Hey Kyle. You got the diagram for wavelength reversed. Shorter wavelengths have more energy and are blueshifted. The 400nm side should be blue. Red and "warmer" wavelengths are longer, the 700nm side should be red.

[@tlotloselei8085]

Nerdist Hey Kyle. How long does it take to shoot one episode of Because Science

[@lordorion5776]

Hey i have two interesting questions. Would the light behind you red shift or would it be visible at all? And if both the light behind you red shifts and the light ahead of you blue shifts would light running perpendicular to the direction of travel appear normal?

[@rakshithec079]

Nerdist Hey could you do a video on Firestorm matrix from flash tv series and Injustice 2 game ...

[@SpecialEDy]

Here's an interesting thought- at a certain speed(99.999...% of c), in order to get somewhere faster, it would take less energy to accelerate the entire universe towards you rather than accelerating your ship.

[@masonjones]

'Look.... I'm heavier!' dying

[@s_r7323]

you dont know comedy

[@strpe9701]

I thought hyperspace was them using an alternate dimension to “jump” between points. Like using a wormhole or the speed force.

[@anhtuantrinh3342]

Me too!

[@erynncollier8672]

@@anhtuantrinh3342 You're both correct.

[@750tiprogamer]

it is. hyperspace is a type of different plane/dimension.

[@pouncepounce7417]

The only "possible" form of moving faster than light not breaking the laws of physic as we know would be creating an massive gravity field that shortens space in front of the ship "pulling" the distance the ship has to travel locally into basical an shorter distance to move over. The ship does not move quicker, but the distance is locally shorter. I said "possible" because we do not really know if we are able to build something like an generator for gravity that can project. Alan Dean Forster KK drive would be pretty much the thing used It would be awesome though. Now puncturing spacetime and going into an "higher dimension" I do not really know if that is smart, pretty much everything about our dimension is tied to the speed of light to word it crudely, so existing there to possible exploit shorter distance or higher speeds of light would mean we need to take an bubble of our spacetime with us (something like an magnetic space time shield) to ensure we have an volume of space that has laws that allow us to function. Opening the question if something like that could exist in an possible higher (other) dimension and if it then can exploit possible other laws in that other dimension. Then how do you navigate a dimension your senses are not build for, where you have to travel to an point that is expressed in mathematics that are literally otherworldly to ours (xyz plus time) without the ability to monitor "realspace" (you have to travel in your private universe to exist through an enviroment your senses are definite not build to experience and make sense of. Given that it was once proposed no airplane can go sonic speed aside from making an dive only to be proven wrong by inventing sonic aerodynamics and thrusters/rockets makes me a little optimistic we could "cheat" around the hard speed limit but I would bet on something that happens in our space like the KK drive, not something that involved going into another dimension we have no real idea what it is like and how we perceive it, how do you build a testprobe if you have not the foggiest what conditions you have "there"

[@helios1628]

You are right

[@FellVoice]

Don't forget that the streaking effect is only what it looks like when entering hyperspace. During actual travel it has that crumpled, bluish-white, crumpled tinfoil effect.

[@PoochieCollins]

There wouldn't be a streaking effect of stars at all.

[@whiteeyedshadow8423]

@@PoochieCollins thats the point

[@diablopicasso4932]

"Gotta shoot first, gotta go fast." -Sonic the Solo

[@rusemode]

YEET

[@TheXzurae]

I'm pretty sure in Return of the Jedi, they depict the Millennium Falcon emerging from hyperspace which looks like a blue tunnel.

[@danielyeshe]

Yes you're right. In Babylon 5 hyperspace is a rhelm you enter where travel is faster. Almost like a wormhole. In essence neither of them are true FLT - rather you make the distance shorter.

[@Aerxis]

Agreed, it looks like a wormhole.

[@titlo3646]

Steve Gale yep the jump looks like a ton of streaks but after that it's a big blue tunnel

[@andersonneil2293]

Also in the Clone wars tv show

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Steve Gale That was in the original Star Wars as well.

[@FIaTH714]

This is probably one of my favourite episodes ever, when you make science fiction even cooler with actual scien- SURPRISE BLASTER

[@kibosh5478]

That was not only a cool topic but the visualization of what hyperspace looks like is very artistically beautiful.

[@andrewtodaro2874]

Yes, very relaxing and ambient!

[@dawidganski4676]

Maaan, i love when Kyle does suprise lightsaber

[@BertGrink]

+Dawid Gański I love when Kyle does... ANYTHING! hehe His is one of the best youtube channels i've yet encountered, along with SciShow and all the other Green Brothers things, PBS Spacetime, and some retro-stuff channels.

[@mattfairfield9103]

I read the comments before the surprise lightsaber. Thanks for the spoiler :(

[@Tycini1]

@@BertGrink The best channel is wej0w, followed by NinjaHassen and the now-defunct DexterStyle.

[@BLAZE084]

Never gets old lol! #SurpriseLightsaber!

[@Nerdist]

It's like a should make a t-shirt for you all or something....hmm... -- KH

[@BLAZE084]

There is a great disturbance in the Force... millions of voices hoping for the day this coveted merchandise will come to be! Use those space wizard powers to bring peace and prosperity to your galaxy of fans!

[@shade01977]

Nerdist - T-shirt? A "t-shirt that I would definitely buy" t-shirt? Yes, perhaps you should look into that. And the tag at the end literally brought a tear to my eye, Kyle. Well done! :)

[@brenovsky]

Please!?

[@ZethKeeper]

Damn yasss!

[@jkrswld1174]

In canon it is actually stated that hyperspace is in fact an alternate dimension. And in the films while in hyperspace outside of the cockpit it appears as a blueish white warping tunnel. Also stated that if one were to stare too long into this tunnel tha would be overwhelmed with what is known as ‘Hyper-sickness’.

[@ziekjes]

What's even cooler is the fact that if you pass by stars you would see them popping up as violet, turning blue, then hold a bit as white, then turn to red and then fade into darkness behind you, because you are passing them at an angle which decreases and then increases your relative speed towards and away from them. Looking out the side window would be just as cool as looking out the front window.

[@whitherwhence]

Nico DiAngelo asked him xD Yes, I too, having been stranded in a magical hotel casino since the 1940s and come out in present day would wonder about the science of Star Wars

[@tinchick2]

I was waiting for someone to point out Nico DiAngelo! :)

[@legolaven]

finally! i was surprised this sort of comment wasn't higher on the comment section!

[@WintersCosplay]

The Doctor. simply The Doctor. First: YES I WAS THINKING THE SAME Second: would the Tardis travel through Hyperspace too?

[@pymael5638]

But why were you in the casino? Did Zeus get pissed at your dad and tried to kill you and your sister?

[@whitherwhence]

Knightzinho You should see how the Oracle ended up

[@Hallowedsword57]

I learn more on here than in school

[@Gfish17]

tru dat.

[@jerk1921]

When I walked through the living room as my parents watched the history channel I learned more then my 12 years at government indoctrination camp, I mean 'school'

[@nfckelnayden2872]

Right

[@aliozanerbektas]

What about StarGate hyperspace window? It looked a lot like what you have described.

[@christophercordero9352]

Ozan Erbektaş that's sound like a wormhole gate

[@11029263]

Like SGUs FTL that was almost correct then.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Stargate DOES use wormholes, but only with the stargates themselves. Ships travel through hyperspace.

[@edwardwu2749]

I made an animation based on what Nerdist said in this video! Check it out for Science and Hyperspace: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWKzn3uFoMhrmc0

[@tabz2k10]

I enjoyed you turning round and drawing chubaka way too much

[@dragoamc58]

I think that was probably the best surprise lightsaber ever

[@stefangrubesic2708]

I'm a big Star Wars fan but I must admit this is way cooler

[@edwardwu2749]

I made an animation based on what Nerdist said in this video! Check it out for Science and Hyperspace: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWKzn3uFoMhrmc0

[@whiterabbit2786]

I wonder if the dark energy, which is currently undetectable, would be shifted to a form which could be detected and measured.

[@Robert_Douglass]

Hmm, interesting point. I bet you could get an answer on Quora.

[@aarong6416]

DouglassRobert k

[@northernskies86]

Considering dark matter and dark energy don't interact electromagnetically, I don't think you could measure it in hyperspace, at least by electromagnetic means like "seeing" it.

[@theuglyducklingisgodlevelt6104]

@@northernskies86 yeah, anytime dark matter is observed it changes it’s properties (because light acts as a catalyst I think) That’s what makes it impossible to study. So Since it does have some sort of interaction with light maybe something trippy would happen. It’s too specific to google but I’m sure there’s theory’s out there about what might happen.

[@housetheunstoppablessed4846]

@@Robert_Douglass Quora is full of pseudo experts. fuck them.

[@manofthetardis]

I want to see a because science on how a terminator/skynet takeover would pan out today with our advances in weaponry and computer technology would we be taken down as easily?

[@pouncepounce7417]

nope. not enough computing power. building an selflearning program (the seed for an AI) is in its very infacy, The best we an do is a demented mayfly right now.

[@Bearyboo87]

I just found your channel and binge watched the entire thing while nursing my teething son, great videos man love your stuff kept me going strong.

[@Nerdist]

That's so cool to hear Samuel, glad I could help in any way. -- KH

[@Bearyboo87]

Nerdist well my boy seems to like it too he jumps every time "SUPRISE..." happens then giggles. Are you still taking ideas for episodes from this forum? if so, netflix is releasing a new series of star trek sometime soon and i have noticed your passion for climate change. With these two things in mind how about you look at the power sources of the ships in this universe? Something along the lines of how much power a matter/anti-matter generator could put out? Maybe compare this matter/anti-matter to the romulan singularity power source? Or for something a bit more grounded simply look at other forms of energy production that are awesome and much cleaner. I know how you love your Tokamak, i am rather fond of enriched thorium breeder reactors myself! Anyway thanks for reading and replying makes us views feel valued!

[@oisinholz]

Real hyperspace would look way cooler than sci-fi hyperspace! Sweet episode as always

[@WooMaster777]

I love Kyle's impersonation of Chewbacca. He just turns around. 😂

[@blackwidow1417]

I really like this series

[@thexsoar]

Every episode gets better, and your mane grows ever more magnificent sir.

[@edwardwu2749]

I made an animation based on what Nerdist said in this video! Check it out for Science and Hyperspace: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWKzn3uFoMhrmc0

[@TheTdogg8088]

I learnt more than in this video than I have in two years of GCSE science

[@TuberTugger]

Today I learnt that the word "learnt" is legit and more commonly used in the UK. Thank you.

[@ronpetersen2317]

Does that mean we can legitimately also say Edjamacated?

[@lucasbeck1391]

Ron Petersen no sorry

[@sidrolf]

You clearly have not been paying attention in class

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

make a sci fi movie, Kyle

[@devilio]

One of the best episodes so far! Big wow!!

[@FlagCutie]

Once again Charles kills it with the editing! So the blue shifting looks like the time vortex in Doctor Who! Who knew! And, if the true look of hyper space is that of a blue light at the end of the tunnel, does this mean that when we die, we accelerate to impossible speeds because we are traveling through infinite space? Oooooo, someone with better writing skills use this for a new book!

[@nattywoo475]

For force sake...

[@twistidtimmer]

wow I am glad I happened upon this channel. actually learned something on youtube. had to sub. great stuff

[@longlowdog]

This video managed in 10 minutes to explain things I haven't grasped in 53 years. Brilliant, thank you.

[@PebblesPeach]

These videos blow my mind. So fascinating. 💫

[@cauzintrauma5685]

i think his version looks cooler than star wars tbh haha

[@edwardwu2749]

I made an animation based on what Nerdist said in this video! Check it out for Science and Hyperspace: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWKzn3uFoMhrmc0

[@BadNewsNolie]

@nerdist seriously fascinating stuff man, nerdy as hell but really cool at the same time.

[@rafaelalodio5116]

This episode was really good, nice job.

[@unclearsector4266]

...you get heavier. *pauses* ...look, im heavier

[@RenBR]

Amazing video!!! Keep up the good work!!!

[@Nerdist]

Very kind, thank you Renan! -- KH

[@kevinenter1636]

I'm flattered to know that you make these episodes for me specifically. Thanks Kyle!

[@THETRIVIALTHINGS]

This is just so amazingly awesome!

[@BlueNip]

In the anime Cowboy Bebop, humans have colonized Mars by building cities inside craters on Mars. Would this be an easy way to colonize Mars?

[@dragoamc58]

Conner Irvin you had me at cowboy bebop

[@radiannnn]

OK. 3, 2, 1, Let's jam.

[@repinswatson6452]

Conner Irvin it would matter where you built it as long as you have water and oxygen. you could generate an atmosphere where it's breathable. add water and your good.

[@BlueNip]

In the show it looked like the crater helped contain the atmosphere for humans to live in, was wondering if this would be possible

[@Erika-gn1tv]

It would have to be a very deep crater, I think. Enough that you could have the appropriate pressure without the atmosphere spilling over. And then there would be the radiation and the dust storms and the low gravity but hey.

[@minikahona]

So basically like in Stargate. Or almost like in Stargate.

[@DShorb20]

Incredible video! Had to watch it twice.

[@FrJacobSJ]

This was fascinating!

[@Agriking]

At last, science fact is cooler than science fiction!

[@allnamesaretakenful]

There are probably a lot of examples where science fact is cooler than science fiction. A lot of Sci-Fi writers didn't really know what they were doing. They just took an idea and hoped it worked.

[@PanthereaLeonis]

They did dream up a lot of cool things that could be made to work tough.

[@alexanerose4820]

Meh that's more of the exception than the rule. Sci-Fi will always be cooler because of the amazing things that could happen.

[@PaulPennington0515]

fantastic video. keep em comin

[@SlatDogg]

I always enjoy how much fun you appear to be having.

[@patrikszabo8292]

So the hyperspace in Stargate SG-1 actually looks realistic.

[@KeishinB237]

Dunno... those are artificial wormholes and i don't think they go to light speed... i could be wrong but honestky who knows

[@fluffycommander]

Hyperspace for the ships they use, blue backgrounds outside the ships.

[@tekknorat]

@@KeishinB237 In Stargate series the ships travel in hyperspace, which looks like a blue tunnel, that's the space radiation background becoming visible, and they do move faster than speed of light in there. The artificial wormholes you're referring to are created by the gates, stepping through the event horizon any matter is converted to energy, thus it can move even faster than ships in hyperspace and then turned back into matter at the other end gate.

[@David-vq6qg]

@@tekknorat and they also use their shield when traveling cux they know that they'll be heavier and tear apart according to this video. Stargate is more km point

[@calimerohnir3311]

Rebels is basically Firefly in the Star wars universe (except firefly was actually good)

[@whitetransgirlwithdreads]

TY! I needed to know this for something

[@AlphaSections]

Well done, this well explained well!

[@Neuroticmancer]

So mass effect got it right?

[@TwiistedRaven]

So when Flash runs fast enough he sees everything blue, then violet and then... he sees nothing?

[@KeishinB237]

Raven by that point he'd be dead. The human body simply cannot handle those kinds of forces. Despite him breaking that fact every time he runs

[@TwiistedRaven]

If we think that way it's impossible to reach that speed and this video is pointless. We assume/ignore some things in this kind of videos, so we can discuss about it.

[@KeishinB237]

Yeah, I know, just trying to make a bad joke. But yeah it is quite likely he would see blue then violet and eventually nothing if he got that fast. Also, almost every ship in star wars has shields. Not many people take into account that they may not be entirely for combat reasons such as say... to stop the ship from coming apart in hyperspace?

[@whuspr]

I'm pretty sure the Speedforce was made to be an excuse for everything.

[@P.A.theDarkstar]

He basically becomes light as he flies, so his mass must shift to nearly nothing. Otherwise he would be able to kill any one by simply stopping too close to them after running.

[@Dzeroed]

Very nice, never heard it explained in rain before, usually sirens from a car passing are the standard. I like your one better

[@TheAbulletAway]

I had to wait an hour for Windows to install it's latest updates. So I discovered these videos with Nerdist Xbox One app. Now I'm hooked!

[@TheEventHorizon909]

Hyperspace is an alternate dimension, where moving there takes less effort to move in our dimension. So all of this is kinda BS misunderstanding

[@tactechchannel7960]

Quick somebody send this to Disney

[@ronpetersen2317]

why? To hear the mouse say "pfffft science ho hah!"

[@yojimbo-jack]

TacTech Gamer more like send it to elite dangerous Devs/every other space game dev

[@thunderwindandrain]

Hi, in the SW universe, the stars streaking shows the Falcon accelerating as it jumps to hyperspace, which exists outside of we consider real space. in Star Wars Ep 4 A New Hope ~0:56:20 Han says they're about to jump to hyperspace and the starlight elongates when he activates the hyperdrive (this is the device that allows a jump to hyperspace as well keeping the ship and it's contents in relative time with the rest of the universe). And at ~ 1:03:05 as the Falcon is about to exit hyperspace you will actually see what Lucas thought what hyperspace should look like - and it looks a lot like what you said it should. Cool!

[@thomnasilikeswordfighting5506]

Great vid!

[@dipgrizzly25]

Bukkake at 4:10?

[@secondghost]

Curse you Kyle! Curse you and your beautiful rock star hair.

[@awhochen1563]

FlyingShazbot No. Thor hair!

[@pangarans]

Great explanation

[@JohnnyKronaz]

This show is the only reason I'm sub'd. Kyle needs his own channel.

[@soheilsingh1897]

Set to warp 8, oh sorry, wrong series...

[@The.Home.Cinema.Engineer]

lol omg Im going to make that my Ring tone Surprise light-saber !

[@workthetrigger]

slight problem: as "light speed" is the ultimate speed limit, and that speed being a constant through any given medium, a moving light source would not change the frequency of the light to someone who is stationary, as the light would still be emitted at the exact same speed, with the exact same wave length (contrary to sound, who's speed is not constant in a medium). The only way to perceive light radiation at a different frequency would be for the observer to be moving relative to the source, not the other way. Other than that, like always, awesome video, and i agree you need your own channel.

[@laytonjames8944]

The surprise lightsaber cracks me up every time hahahaha

[@Tycho884]

If all light frequencies shorten as we approach FTL wouldn't all light frequencies end up being close to that of gamma radiation? And if so, staring at hyperspace would result in us soaking in LOTS of very lethal amounts of rads, in a very short span of time, killing us.

[@Tycho884]

I'm just imagining thousands of needles shot at any hyperspace observer all at once, ouch!

[@KeishinB237]

I imagine thats one of the reasons every ship in starwars (other than fighters) have shields.

[@Zxfive5]

If your close to light speed it does not change the frequency of waves, but your perception about it

[@marekandrejs1398]

I guess this is not only about a perception. By increasing your speed towards a light source you are effectively hit by far greater number of emitted photons. At high enough speeds you in fact could get hit by gamma rays that are (if still) a visible light. Just one more point to prove this - an energy of electromagretic waves is given by its frequency times the Planck's constant. It definitively would not be a good idea to travel near a speed of light just wearing sunglasses hoping that what you could feel is just a perception :) Anyway I am mising the "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME" disclaimer :D

[@LionStrategic]

How come no one ever mentions blue shifting harmless electromagnetic radiation into face melting ionizing radiation?

[@hiltonian_1260]

LionStrategic Good point! A lot of gamma radiation right in the kisser. In fact, as you approach the speed of light the electromagnetic radiation coming from your direction of travel would approach infinitely short wavelength and therefore approach infinite power. You and your ship would melt like a chocolate bar under a Saturn V rocket.

[@ziekjes]

Because that is actually not true. The frequency of the radiation (visible or invisible) would actually only just double. Since the source of the light (star or whatever) is more or less stationairy. The light traveling towards you goes at 3x10^8m/s and with you traveling towards the source at the same speed, the amount of waves hitting you per unit of time (frequency) is therefore only twice as high. The visible light would actually only go just past what we can see (400-700nm would become 200-350nm). Only if the source were to travel towards YOU near the speed of light, would the frequency approach infinity and melt your face off.

[@BooBaddyBig]

I'd have to think about it some more, but I think that because you're flying through the light field, you'd actually see the stars behind you, in front of you, and those stars would appear to be disappearing to a point. So it would look kinda like you were flying in reverse. Not sure how the red shift would work, I think it might tend to cancel at 2c and look normal.

[@carlousmagus5387]

Absoulty awesome video, thanks and please keep them coming! Charles III

[@BurningFyre]

Im guessing before the video even starts that it looks like a really laggy game. you see a frame for an instant, then another further along, then another, and so on. Edit: not what i was expecting, but thats even cooler.

[@sorenwahlun]

BurningFyre When you are THAT wrong you are supposed to delete the comment.

[@paranormaldoctor5451]

Why would you think the?

[@sabirahg2537]

Surprise Lightsaber? oh nevermind 😅I was waiting forever 😂

[@Dyne191]

great episode, thumbs up

[@betawolfhd]

great episode

[@rhileyjones7092]

The millennium falcon does not go 0.5 past light speed it has a 0.5 quality hyperdrive engine which is pretty much the best in comparison start destroyers have a have a 1 quality hyperdrive that is why the falcon is actually faster than Star destroyers And if you look at every single piece of content When they are in hyper space and you look through the window or when they show an exterior shot it is always what you describe

[@chrissonofpear3657]

Yeah, that was a retcon, but a pretty sensible one.

[@richardlionerheart1945]

a retcon to be sure but a sensible one

[@Wolfinsomnia]

Just a note you said medium instead of vacuum. Through a medium light does not travel at a constant speed. Also my names Kevin so that last part fucked with me for a second haha

[@bidlis]

I also heard something similar to that you would kinda see behind you, like the angle in which you would see during the acceleration would go over 160-170° (or whatever it is normaly)

[@AstroRayGun]

I remember seeing a visual representation of light speed travel that looked like everything moves away and around you. to the point where you can even see behind you because you're keeping pace with the light that has passed you or something along those lines

[@kevinreyna1613]

My name is Kevin:0

[@jakebatch874]

Kevin Perez haha I just scrolled through half the comments to see if there was actually someone called Kevin. He was talking to YOU man! 😊

[@willginkens1607]

This nigga smart

[@Noroimusha303]

The Wookie has a point.

[@sarasarah1810]

Will Ginkens xx yeah smart as in reading....lol

[@tomaszcodasz]

Actually he is stupid. Microwave radiation is much to weak (0.25eV/cm^3) to be visible to human eye, even when redshifted to visible range - because it is to weak. His videos are dump and makes others dumb as him.

[@MrUsoutlaw]

also I'm sure he purposefully leaves out stuff just to try and BS his way to what ever conclusion he decided. in reality well in theory it is possible to move faster than light by Warping space. kind of like a surfer catching a wave to move him along faster. actually the very idea was reverse engineered from star treks warp drives (star wars has warp dives as well.) the idea is using energy to create a dip in space in front of a ship wile generating a rise n space behind it. one of the few things is a power source.

[@rotor13]

he's making the science behind popular sci-fi technologies easy to understand. unfortunately, that also means information is either omitted or wrong. its called entertainment or "nerd-tainment" - don't try and use it as actual education and you'll be ok to enjoy the video

[@Arm4g3dd0nX]

Good video. Very cool how longer wavelength radiation will suddenly start becoming visible. One thing you didn't touch on too much, however, is what the causal speed limit (speed of light) is linked to. That speed limit is for objects moving through spacetime, but does not limit objects travelling WITH spacetime. That's why dark energy (anti-gravity) and gravity don't break the laws of physics when dealing with super-massive objects or super-long distances. Spacetime itself is being created between the galaxies (more noticeably than other shorter distances), and being consumed by black holes (and other objects with mass). So if hyperspace utilizes these properties (not really forces), then going 1.5C or even significantly greater than that is theoretically achievable.

[@JonjRambonia]

awesome episode

[@AcrimoniousMirth]

Nico DiAngelo? Who else got the reference?

[@shashwat0khurana]

Doesn't a star emit enough intensity in all wavelength range that as the visible light blue shifts the infrared light will also blue shift and thus the visible range will never be empty.... Making the stars always appear white :P

[@SkyRecruit18]

Shashwat Khurana After violent Humans can't seen past that since you know it's no longer visible light. He even covered that topic how did you miss it

[@MrAlexAKAprokiller]

well if you go faster than the speed of light I think that all light emitted in all wavelength even the infrared one would be shifted to ultraviolet and beyond.

[@ryanmmax]

Agree, if you see the blue of the background radiation you would see the other frequency’s of a star

[@MrAlexAKAprokiller]

yeah, that's something I have problem with, if you go faster than light speed any light going into your ship would have frequency wayyyyy past the ultraviolet range, the screen should just be black

[@TimbavatiLion]

Going at the speed of light should basically double every radiations frequency. So light of wavelengts between 800-1400nm would become the visible spectrum. Stars do emit a lot of that, so yes, stars would change a bit in color depending on their radiation spectrum is this wavelength window. They would only turn violet if they emitted a lot of 800nm wavelength radiation. And the cosmic background would still be black. Because even though 800-1400nm is included in the cosmic background radiation, its so little that we still wouldn't be able to perceive it as visible.

[@francoisdastardly4405]

You are an extraordinary scientific communicator. Congratulations !!

[@MarvinMegavolt]

AMazing video as always, but if I might be so bold, I'd like to point out that Hyperspace in Star Wars (and almost every other work of fiction featuring it or something like it) is a parallel set of 4 (sometimes 5) dimensions in quantized hyper-space-time. The act of jumping to hyperspace involves somehow tunneling into this dimension, and then traveling through it at what would be normal sub-light speeds in Realspace, but is faster than light RELATIVE to realspace, due to distances being scaled differently in hyperspace, such that any journey through hyperspace is physically shorter in terms of distance than that same trip through realspace.

[@gabehurd7569]

I mean, technichally hyperspace is a separate dimension, but you'd still have to go past lightspeed to reach it. Still really awesome science and explanation, though.

[@Nerdist]

Yeah, these science + sci-fi explanation are always about walking a thin, sensible line, thanks! -- KH

[@repinswatson6452]

Nerdist couldn't it work as like wormholes or teleportation

[@gabehurd7569]

Cory Lewis right. I forgot that bit.

[@chilenofeo1]

Surprise Lightsaber @ 7:17

[@Nerdist]

IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE -- KH

[@rusemode]

Ya blew it, Chile

[@gammaechofoundationproductions]

Kyle, another great episode! You just given me inspiration to create my own hard-sci-fi saga novel! I will make sure you get credit for it, thank you :)

[@RPclone]

Im so glad that Ive included the light shifting thing into my highschool writing homework "fictioning" travel back in time. Which I made it right be light shifted to purple and then gone, too bad I didn't come up with the cosmic wave though.

[@Jonas-hp3ht]

Hyperspace is actually a parallel dimension you travel through. That's why you don't experience no time dilation.

[@yolololfun5341]

You know, a dimension is not something like a universe, but instead a direction you can go in that makes a 90 degrees angle with every other dimension (like for example north-south, east-west or up-down). So by definition a dimension is not parallel to any of the other dimensions.

[@Nerdist]

Well then there would be no reason to say "0.5 past lightspeed" would there? Or see anything happening with the stars. See the problem? You have to go with what the movies *imply* rather than establish in these cases, because they aren't thinking about the science. -- KH

[@Jonas-hp3ht]

yolo lolfun - yeah should have said higher dimension (in string thoery hyperspace is considered the 10th dimension) Nerdist - Well you would be traveling 0.5 past lightspeed relative 3 dimensional space.

[@chaos_omega]

I'm guessing if they are traveling in a separate dimension where the same physics don't apply, then saying "0.5 past lightspeed" is just a handy way of explaining how fast they will get there relative to their starting point and destination in their regular dimension. And if it's a *parallel* dimension, why wouldn't you be able to see the stars? Parallel implies they are linked somehow. Perhaps seeing them all stretched out is just how they look in the parallel dimension? I am, of course, talking out my ass. But I'm curious.

[@mrfister1234]

Nerdist i always adsumed that the hyperdrive allows the ship to travel .5 past lightspeed. This then allows them to enter hyperspace, which is described as another dimension

[@greenman5255]

Duh...this is what we see when we *Die*.

[@Iknowhowbadthisnameis8828]

You serious!!?????

[@100KGNatty]

Not really. Ever smoked DMT?

[@JaelinBezel]

In the tv show, we're shown that traveling through hyperspace (not just making the jump) is like flying through a giant swirling tunnel of blue light.

[@dontsubscribe3702]

In Star Wars(Legends at least), hyperspace is a sort of interdimensional wormhole-type thingy which is probably related to the Force(A spiritual concept). It is possible to travel to another dimension, or travel in time. The other dimension is called "Otherspace", which is similar to the regular galaxy, except space is a white void with little spots of darkness. The galaxy is attacked from a species that had gotten stuck in Otherspace. EckhartsLadder did a much better job at explaining this than I did. The way you explained it explains hyperspace in pretty much every other science fiction film though.

[@mrbob0822]

For me, you say? Why, sir, my cheeks are red shifting. Did they go to hyperspace?

[@LelekPLN]

The whole speed of travel in Star Wars makes no sense. Even going faster than the speed of light would take them thousands of years to travel through the galaxy. The only way to travel such distances is to warp space-time itself. A wormhole for instance would work. But just going fast is laughably not enough compared to the vastness of space.

[@yurtttttt96]

LelekPL "hyperspace" travel is the warping of the space-time fabric.... You can't go super luminal speeds unless you do some physical trickery.

[@LelekPLN]

Yes, but they say it's traveling "1.5 the speed of light" which like I said is laughable when you consider the distances and completely impractical if you wanted to come back (everybody would be dead due to relativity). If they got rid of the "1.5 of the speed of light" speed nonsense, your definition would make it theoretically possible.

[@yurtttttt96]

LelekPL what do you mean my definition? You can't go super luminal without altering space time fabric e.g. Alcubierre drive is the theoretical idea of contracting the area Infront of you & expanding the area behind you. Whether you moved at 1.0000000001C₀ or 10,000C₀

[@LelekPLN]

I understand what you're saying. I'm just saying that the speeds that are in canon make no sense. Whether they are moving within a local reference frame (which I know is impossible but for the sake of fiction I was assuming it is) or warping space time. Because even though they'd be warping space time, if it allows them to traverse the universe in ONLY 1.5 of the speed of light, that is not enough. You'd need a warp drive that would take you milion times faster.

[@yurtttttt96]

LelekPL which ship are you referring that travels only at 1.5C₀?

[@mach7archangel]

Awesome video!

[@loneboy1237]

This representation of hyper-space would look cool too. BUT one important thing has been forgotten. Isnt travel through hyper space based on the concept, that the space we live in consists of at least 4 (spatial) dimensions and travelling through hyperspace is also moving across other dimensions to avoid obstacles in the 3 dimensional (sub)space we perceive? Hope I would find representations of that soon