Woah! Someone Just Sent an Impossible Drive to Space To See If It Works

[@billysweird]

Please always keep this balance of hope and cynicism. It's one of the hardest things to do as a scientist and is usually only seen in very secure veterans. You're the only science youtuber who I can trust on new papers that isn't a hypercritical egomaniac or a niave sellout. You're doing science and the world proud, and if more people had your gift, the world would be a much better place.

[@danp7174]

Well said! 👏

[@Avruthlelbh]

Couldn't put it better. Can't tell you how many times I watch a video from here, and a day or so later see someone talking about the same paper, either completely bashing it and calling it pseudo-science, or seeing the SAME person acting like "THIS discovery WILL change the world!". For so-called educational channels, there sure is a lot of celebrity-gossip-level nonsense we're stuck with.

[@j.dunlop8295]

Exactly, it's excellent to know someone's trying!

[@tsm688]

didn't they disprove the drive in 3 different experiments already? "But maybe it'll work THIS time..." Won't be a significant result unless they send up another 42 space probes LOL. The time would be better spent on the ground -- but they already spent it and know it doesn't work.

[@jamescameron6819]

​@@tsm688need to draw investment to fund new iterations. Not all companies can have Lockheed Martin's access to black budgets

[@neonscorpion2981]

Thank you for covering this, whether it works or not. I think people underestimate the tremendous value of these tests that fail, the more we try and fail, the more we learn. That is how we advance. I love that they are testing this, because either it works and we enter a new age of space travel, or it doesn't and we learn more about what is holding us back. And if humans are good at anything, it's overcoming obstacles! :)

[@shannelowe183]

Hello Anton, i hope you and your family are doing well. Thank you for your time and work you do with these videos they are always interesting.

[@raam1666]

Let it go.

[@localenterprisebroadcastin5971]

He told me to tell you he doesn’t read the comments

[@vincentcleaver1925]

Man, look who crawled out from under their rocks...

[@donniesmidway]

Lovely comment

[@Tetarkall]

@@vincentcleaver1925?

[@theguy8412]

It's so cool to know that at every moment every day we have people working on futuristic technology

[@AlexanderTheGoodEnough]

yea, cool.....until you realize 90% of that effort is to do things like: decrease the total mass of fat people or increase the size of the average pecker.

[@ZeroOskul]

It's modern technology. We live in the future from when it would be futuristic due to the passage of time.

[@gititgiitit5450]

@@AlexanderTheGoodEnough give credit to where credit is due. My pecker looks a lot bigger now that I lost enough weight to see it again.

[@johncasey9544]

@@AlexanderTheGoodEnough I actually totally disagree with this. If the number of scientists trying to increase dick size were that large, we'd already all have 12 inchers.

[@tbird-z1r]

​@@AlexanderTheGoodEnoughWe need more money spent on enlarging small peckers, not average ones.

[@anthonysaunders345]

Anton, I always love your smile and wave at the end of your videos. It's so goofy (in a good way). It's you. And you're such a genuine person it fits. Love your videos!

[@CaedenV]

Well... Proving something wrong in a riggerous way is still helpful. Really, most of science is "nope, that didn't work" followed up with another study a decade later saying "yep, still doesn't work". Really it is much more rare that we find something interesting and new with a positive result.

[@Dandroid_1]

As unlikely as it is to work, I do wish them luck.

[@shorgoth]

Yeah, I don't think it will work but if it does I won't be spitting on it if it does.

[@sysbofh]

@@shorgothI'm skeptical too - and rooting for them! Can You imagine? Put some solar panels, and You scientific mission goes on (virtually) forever. Shove a nuclear reactor, and suddenly reaching for the stars is possible! I don´t think it will work. But, boy, I'm REALLY rooting for them!

[@caseyczarnomski8054]

Thanks for covering this story Anton. There are a lot opinions on this and it's great we are finally putting the theory to the test.

[@hi117117]

it could still produce some thrust in space if the theory about it interacting with Earth's magnetic field is true. it wouldn't bring us to Mars but it could mean that we could stop putting propellant on satellites in low Earth orbit, basically we get free repositioning and orbital corrections around Earth. it would probably be most helpful when it comes to satellites pointed at Earth. they can reposition to wherever they want to gather data on whatever their mission is and have an almost unlimited lifespan. this is also all assuming that the engine can actually overcome drag because there's still atmosphere in space just not a lot of it.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

What I worry about in regards to the drive, is some group trying to discredit it for some reason. There are mysteries and new science out there.

[@Inertia888]

@@FLPhotoCatcher If it proves to be a more economically efficient method of thrust, even if it is only worth it in certain situations, it won't matter how much anyone tries to discredit it. If it can save someone money, they will use it.

[@stevenverrall4527]

​@@hi117117The solar wind is also magnetic. There are also galactic scale magnetic fields. QI theory is at least mostly wrong. As a theoretical physicist who studies the Unruh effect, I can tell you that Mike McCullough's papers are filled with errors. However, spacecraft that utilize natural magnetic fields may be just as useful as solar and nuclear powered spacecraft. We need all of it!

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

@@Inertia888 That is very true - *IF* the very idea is not discredited like cold fusion was. Cold fusion works, but was torpedoed by... who knows, but there was motive. Same could be true for this latest idea.

[@patbluetree4636]

You are a new content machine . Thanks again for all your effort.

[@Veldrusara]

Anton's smile brightens my day, every day. 💜🌎🤗

[@gititgiitit5450]

Anton has this amazing way of giving explanations to the questions his followers and mainly commenters have from previous videos he makes. Subtle but effective. Like how should we perceive the universe to look like. Is there anything faster than light. Or how black holes just don't consume everything and them and in their path. And more amazing is how Humans don't do the unimaginable. They create and do everything they can imagine.

[@Alondro77]

Uhm, we really CAN'T do everything we can imagine... which is a very good thing if you've watched horror movies.

[@roadwarrior6555]

If Burger King can figure out how to make an impossible burger, someone will definitely make a working impossible drive.

[@frenstcht]

"We've got this fancy thing that totally works, but you can't look inside it and we won't tell you how it's made."

[@harmless6813]

"But you _can_ buy shares in our company!"

[@crimsonhalo13]

You make a very good point about possible interactions with Earth's magnetic field. That sounds like the most plausible explanation, and it would still render the effect somewhat useful for satellites, if it can be made to work.

[@DarkSorrow29]

Good point, my first thought though was, if it is Earth's magnetic field causing some thrust, it's going to do the same thing in space (at this distance that they are testing), how are they going to know the difference? You'd have to test it somewhere away from any magnetic fields...

[@virutech32]

​@@DarkSorrow29 Presumably one should be able to calculate expected force if u know how strong the 2 interacting magfields are.

[@planetsec9]

Yeah in that case it might function more like the electric sail or plasma magnet concepts deployed in LEO, i.e. interacting with the magnetic field to over time drag it into the atmosphere and burn up, now those 2 methods are also claimed to be able to generate thrust by interacting with the solar wind but need to be deployed outside of the Earths magnetic field to work that way, don't know if the same is true for the Quantum drive since that seems to interact with this "Unruh effect" rather than the solar wind.

[@DarkSorrow29]

@@virutech32 but if that was the case, they should have been able to do that on the Earth the first time and not even need to test it in space since it's not working due to Unruh effect, no?

[@anonymes2884]

I mean, if it _is_ that then these are _very_ bad scientists (maybe it's an acceptable standard for start-up engineers though :). Because that's (hopefully obviously) _very_ testable here on Earth and they _claim_ to have tested it in every way here on Earth. (you don't need to go somewhere "away from any magnetic fields", just test it in Earth's ambient field then test it in applied magnetic fields of different strengths, directions etc. Unless the proposal is that _Earth's_ magnetic field is "magic" in some way then IF the measured effect is coupled to magnetic fields it should vary and we have a big clue as to mechanism)

[@wowonice1]

Its nice to hear from a science communicator who has a healthy attitude towards fringe theories like this. Too many people look at new ideas with ridicule and the attitude that we shouldn't even try. It's healthy to remain skeptical but it doesnt hurt to be hopeful and turn over every stone. I look forward to hearing more from you about this experiment! ✌️

[@andrew12bravo21]

Exactly!! Remember, gorillas were thought to be a cryptid creature (I know, like saying Detective Comics Comics) until the 1800s!!

[@AverageFornaxEnjoyer]

The wider scientific community seems to be quite narrow minded, just look at the massive acceleration in quantum entanglement theory and applications; which was considered to be crackpot because "eInSTiEn sAId sO." But since a couple guys went out at risk to their own careers and proved some stuff, getting the Nobel Prize we now have actual proper gains making real world impacts.

[@AwfulnewsFM]

​@@AverageFornaxEnjoyerlol there is no quantum entanglement "theory". Quantum entanglement is a direct consequence of the Schrodinger equation, no one ever doubted it, not even Einstein. What Einstein was talking about when he said spooky action at a distance was the measurement postulate. And what is ironic was that Einstein's position on the matter was the fringe one at that time and today, although that is changing now that better computers are showing that the measurement postulate might be false after all and Einstein might have been right. Though he would have wanted a local hidden variable theory which is not possible

[@lordofla]

Indeed! Better to try and fail than to never try at all.

[@pierrotA]

​@@AverageFornaxEnjoyer It's not entirely false, but here it's not a problem, because if it work, it would change *all* the theories of physics that currently exist, and in addition it was tested again and again and never worked. It's like me telling you that you are too skeptical if I tell you that I invent a machine that can instantly teleport me anywhere in the univers... Unless I have some serious proof, you are right to be skeptical. Basically, this motor violate the basics rules of physics, and if it worked, we would have to rewrite everything.

[@oldblinddarby2498]

Excellent content as always. I love seeing someone find success through communication of science, not the usual mind numbing crap that occupies 99% of all other content. I look forward to all your videos, keep up the truly excellent work Anton.

[@NWDestroy]

Thank you for covering this! You are so good at both explaining and relating subject matter as well as bringing us the most interesting and important subjects! Thank you

[@supernova743]

People often forget that science is advanced as much by failure as it is by success. Its not enough to get things right, you have to get things wrong too.

[@genostellar]

The toughest part about doing science is not in realizing that there are limits to what is possible, but in realizing that there are limits to what we can understand.

[@Washeek]

Now... Limits to what we can currently understand. Important distinction. There's no proof that in some sense one day we can't understand everything there is to know.

[@genostellar]

@@WasheekWhat I was getting at was not the limitations of science, but the limitations of our own mental understanding. The capabilities of our brains. Sure, that can also be a "now" issue, but it's still an issue. Things like quantum mechanics would probably be easy if our brains had evolved to understand it, but they didn't. They evolved in a way that suited problem solving for survival, which gave us some ability to understand bigger things, but there are still limitations that we are no doubt running into now.

[@JJFX-]

Meanwhile a couple teenage aliens getting high in their UFO are watching all this and saying, "Bruuuh, I'll give you 2 cows if you can bump their little toy when it turns on."

[@BrianFedirko]

Thanks for new science stuff Anton!! dig it... more more more..☮

[@MrJPI]

Inertia explained: All physical quantities have finite values and the change of those quantities in time is also finite. Lets consider momentum p of an object. If the object has a momentum p in certain inertial frame of reference and its momentum starts to increase, it does that at finite rate dp/dt = F/m (or mdv/dt =F for a constant mass object). That is always true, and there is no other forces or actions influencing the object other than the (net) force F because we only need that force F to determine the momentum (and velocity and position) at any time, we don't need anything else. Now what about inertia? We don't need to use inertia as a property or quantity of the object, we only need to be sure that we know if our frame is inertial (not accelerating in itself) or, in more general cases, we need to know the acceleration of our frame of reference to take it into account when applying Newtons 2:nd Law. So the explanation of inertia is that there is nothing to explain what comes to the response of an object to an applied force. There is no resistance of acceleration or change of momentum, quite the contrary: The body always accelerates obediently and in a precise way under a net applied force. We need to understand the true meaning of Newton's 1:st and 2:nd Laws together, and not try to explain something which doesn't need an explanation.

[@billmilosz]

Great video. The Quantum Drive probably will not work, but the chance that it WILL work are a bit greater than zero, so conducting this experiment is worthwhile. There's so much we DON'T know about physics that you really can't say that this is impossible.

[@frenstcht]

And there's so much that we DON'T know about leprechauns that we can't say they don't exist.

[@CrazyFlyingMonk]

really tho i love fringe experiments being seriously tested like this because there is so much stigma in academia and the scientific community against anything that is considered to far outside the current most accepted model or that questions too much accepted theory or is at risk of being related to something psuedosciency that we are going to miss out on breakthroughs is noone actually gies testing those ideas seroius effort rather than just laughing the suggester out of the room.

[@Reiman33]

​@@frenstcht false equivalence. Physics is real.

[@billmilosz]

@@frenstcht It is usually not possible to prove a negative e.g., "leprechauns do not exist," just try convincing a leprechaun of the logic here.... seriously, though, keep in mind that Newton thought that he had it all worked out, but then Einstein pushed the boundaries of physics outward... and then Niels Bohr and Mz Planck came along.... so it would be arrogant to think we have now got everything worked out...

[@sookendestroy1]

@@frenstcht hey have you ever seen a leprechaun? Me neither, so we cant rule them out because to do so we need to catch one and find its stash of gold.

[@vts747]

Anton, you're the best! I would love to see that experiment succeed, but very skeptical. And if it works, I'm booking a trip to Titan for a starter.

[@alexmartinelli6231]

If Anton puts a "Woah!" In the title, you know it'll be good.

[@noGodsNeeded]

Great video Anton! You explained this all very well. Thanks for posting!

[@sergalsandwich9521]

even if it doesn't work it's at least a thing we tried, I wonder how many possible breakthroughs were missed just because people thought they wouldn’t go anywhere

[@Pyxis10]

In this case? No. Theres pushing the limits, and then there is wasting money on something we know is impossible, and doesn't work as advertised.

[@anonymes2884]

19.

[@LordOfNihil]

@@Pyxis10 if you pay attention to how much some science experiments cost, launching a cubesat is a pretty cheap way to test things.

[@Eristotle222]

You are honestly my most trusted science communicator, keepup thegreat work!

[@limesta]

Like in the days of the first airplanes, everyone had crazy ideas with random theories will little basis, until results started to crop up, then we optimized and learned and evolved into proper flying craft. It'll be a matter of time until one of these crazy drives ends up working even a little bit, at which point we have a true research vector

[@gititgiitit5450]

I feel like this research is to propel our satellites far beyond our own solar system without the worry of their fuel running out. We still hold communication with our voyagers but they're dying out. We already have advanced enough where we can send newer satellites that would catch up and surpass these satellites in a few years time.

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 👍🙂

[@minorityofthought1306]

At least this was a serious attempt to prove/disprove the technology. We'll see what comes of it soon. Thanks Anton.

[@wanton7306]

Not was, is because drive tests hasn't even started yet

[@Inertia888]

I love that putting experiments in orbit has become less expensive, and we are able to see more theories put to the test

[@arctic_haze]

I am afraid we will not. I mean it will obviously fail but the authors will explain it away as a technical glitch and will want more space tests. They will most probably never give up.

[@anonymes2884]

@@arctic_haze Agreed. That will _also_ at least tell us something though i.e. the investigators are likely crackpots (or at least embracing _this_ idea in a crackpot way).

[@wanton7306]

@@anonymes2884 many discoveries have been thought as crackpot before they where proven. There is clearly something wrong because what we see happens in space doesn't match all theories we have. That's why there is theory of dark matter that hasn't been proven yet in all these many years they've tried.

[@jerrymont2595]

Fantastic video Anton. Keep up the excellent work...

[@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306]

All true science is an attempt to disprove. It works. Weeding out BS is as important as discovery. Love your vids Anton. Wish there were more like you.

[@smellthel]

I'm so excited to see the results! Great video!

[@AmixLiark]

Quantized inertia is close but not quite right. Inertia could be considered quantized but there's a little more to it. It might be that they find a component of the actual quantized inertia.

[@AxionSmurf]

Titan is my favorite moon too! Where's our dang Titan Mare Explorer! Arr! Pirates of the methane seas!

[@rodsprague369]

One could argue that a seemingly inertialess quantum drive actually pushes on the surrounding Universe. Also, in an ion engine the electric current is the fuel and the noble gas is propellent, not fuel.

[@2019inuyasha]

this small quantum drive is slowly going to push on earth slowing its rotation. since the satellite is in earths magnetic field and thus connected to earth as it pushes against the Universe taking energy from the closest source of angular momentum. be prepared for longer days and nights once the device is activated. over the next years of experiments be ready for a couple of seconds to mysteriously need to be added to clocks...

[@sha_663]

I love Anton's way of presenting. Great enthusiasm about science and opportunities but setting realistic expectations

[@braggarmybrat]

"I Want To Believe!" Mee too, which is why I am excited to see what happens. No matter what, we will learn something. And yes, you can make a list. 😆 ps... I've always said if the theory is contentious, like this one, send it up and turn it on. We don't know everything, so we may as well toss a Hail Mary pass now and then and watch the results. We aren't all-knowing yet.

[@TheOneLostkin]

"All these moons are yours. Except Europa. Attempt no landings there."

[@whatdamath]

ok deal

[@dzezonja3558]

I've been following UFO topic for a few decades ever since I had my own personal experience with few tens of random witnesses and I'm very sceptical when it comes to information that's out there. But the more you look into this the weirder it becomes and harder to dismiss, if not even impossible at this point. And I'm talking evidence from high profile people with professional backgrounds, not some random quacks and schizophrenics. But most barely scratch the surface and therefore have the luxury of quickly brushing things aside and laugh about it. I believe this is a real phenomena and really strange why would governments go such lengths to shut people down who said a thing or two about this topic (blocking careers to them and many people around them that had nothing to do with it is one of the first things they do) and there's countless cases like that. My initial reaction about mummies however was, I laughed. They seem so fake to me. But as time passed and now that they did more analysis on the specimens from multiple labs around the world, things are getting stranger. I still don't believe it until more concrete evidence is put out but it's giving me second thoughts. This decade will be wild ride and even wilder for anyone who's dismissing this topic, I'm sure.

[@napoleonfeanor]

Anton " I do want to believe"

[@GreyDeathVaccine]

Even if this drive produces thrust through some strange interaction with a Earth magnetic field, it's still a path worth exploring.

[@i_dont_live_here]

Hello wonderful Anton.

[@RoyaltyInTraining.]

If EM drives can really produce thrust in the range of millinewtons, wouldn't that be relatively straightforward to measure? After all, we have been able to directly measure the gravitational pull between heavy objects in a lab before.

[@CaedenV]

I mean, even if it is really small, as long as they are in microgravity they can leave it on for a month and it would eventually build up an easily measurable effect.

[@hugegamer5988]

Yes, but who knows what’s in the actual sat, could be a conventional ion drive and produce acceleration results just to fleece investors. A thrust as strong as 53mN/watt is easily measured in a garage or trade show table and wouldn’t even need a lab.

[@benanddadmechanical6573]

There is so much we just don’t know. I wonder how many of ‘facts’ and ‘constants’ are just artifacts of the way we do math or measurements of the local energy fields/concentration. We seem to spend way too much time wrapped up in the virtual environment of our math and in imagining barriers/limits in physics.

[@augustday9483]

I've always wondered if it'd be possible to "push off" from the magnetic field around a planet. Like, if you could somehow power an electromagnet that would be strong enough to interact with the field around Earth to generate force. Even a small amount of force would allow a satellite or space station to keep itself at a stable orbit indefinitely. Would be very useful, I think! I'm not a physicist though, so I wouldn't know if such a thing is possible. Does anyone know of any attempts at such a thing?

[@tullymonster4182]

there has been some research into what are called electrodynamic tethers, which are essentially the same principle

[@woowoo111111]

We do that with gravity. That's what an orbit is.

[@pierrotA]

​@@woowoo111111No, because most satellites still need fuel to keep there orbits stable (residual atmosphere, solar winds, obstacle avoidance,...). The space station do around 100 avoidance and altitude corrections per years, for exemple. Without fuel it would be lost in weeks.

[@TheMarrethiel]

13:00 even if the thrust is some unexplained reaction to the magnetic field of earth, it would still be a breakthrough.

[@Daiyuki117]

There's absolutely no way this Unruh radiation affects us in any real way, since by its own math it would be the 0.00001% of force in the equation. It's like saying you didn't punch that guy, the mote of dust that also hit him at the same time explains why he fell over.

[@clevertaco328]

😂

[@Linguae_Music]

We just need to build a quantum drive the size of Rhode Island.

[@AlexanderTheGoodEnough]

@@Linguae_Music better than one the size of texas!

[@garygreen7552]

Unlike the effect Jesse Unruh, Speaker of the California Assembly, had during his long time in public office many years ago. Anton this is a great analysis of an experiment that might teach us something. Thank you.

[@TheSpiritBeaver]

Tell me you don't understand this concept without telling me.

[@Richard-bq3ni]

Cold Fusion, room temperature superconducting, quantum drive, growing money on a tree. If it's too good to be true, it often isn't true....

[@nome2057]

I love the idea of quantised inertia, when I first heard about it I had that feeling when someone says something profound that you have never heard my only fear is that it is so beautiful it has to be wrong

[@treelineresearch3387]

QI is definitely one of the more plausible sounding "fringe" frameworks I've come across and McCulloch doesn't give me the shyster vibe a lot of fringe physics guys do - his hypothesis might be wrong but I don't get the impression he's trying to bilk anyone or just get on the fringe lecture circuit. Interesting to see a test.

[@ZeroOskul]

"Plausible *SOUNDING*"

[@NeonVisual]

It doesn't produce thrust, it's an innertial mass reduction device. It gets lighter.

[@ShawnHCorey]

If the Unruh effect exists, its red shift would be so great that its wavelength would be the size of the universe and its momentum almost zero.

[@CrazyFlyingMonk]

source? not that i dissagree necessarily just i want to see if this is an actual statment or an "Internet statisctic"

[@ZeroOskul]

From: _"Physics With An Edge"_ *Monday, 19 September 2016* *Unruh radiation is usually difficult to see, to put it mildly, because its wavelength is L=8c^2/a, where a is acceleration and c is the speed of light, so for a typical acceleration of 9.8 m/s^2 the wavelength is eight light years.*

[@ShawnHCorey]

@@CrazyFlyingMonk At the time the CMB was released, the average temperature of the universe was around 4000K. Today is is 3K thanks to the red shift. Unruh radiation comes from the edge of the universe. Its red shift is going to be far greater.

[@gititgiitit5450]

@@ZeroOskul So I have no clue what these equations mean. ( sorry read the equation so kinda know.) Is it a singular wave length measured or wave lengths in total and if our universe is spherical wouldn't that mean they would be coming from everywhere at once? and would it be possible that if we could harness this energy to travel or send probes anywhere in our universe distant from any stars, through the vastness of space.

[@ZeroOskul]

@@gititgiitit5450 It is an 8-lightyear wavelength. A single wave to trough that is 8 lightyears. We would need an engine that can sustain an 8-lightyear at-minimum operation by being at least 8 lightyears in size. No. We cannot.

[@bengodfrey6954]

through it all, you remained my favourite person, keep up the great work Anton

[@gingerovertone2929]

Wonderful.

[@marksuplinskas3474]

I really enjoy you're talks! Good job, Anton.❤

[@ProjectDarkWolf]

I know science typically doesn't advance in quantum leaps and bounds but we could really do with one right now. Just something that will shatter our dependency on fossil fuels. Even a bit.

[@MikeJones-mf2fw]

We've had it for some time in nuclear energy. We, apparently, as a species, aren't ready to handle that much power all at once.

[@ProjectDarkWolf]

@@MikeJones-mf2fw Maybe it's because the oil induced climate disasters happen slowly, whereas nuclear disasters tend to happen pretty fast. People don't like risks that might affect them rather than the next generation.

[@MikeJones-mf2fw]

@ProjectDarkWolf Yeah, for sure, we have a short memory. I just wish we could get past that simple-minded way of progression. Just imagine all the stuff we've missed out on by not innovating since the 70s. That's 50 years of missed opportunities. Although I'm sure the military hasn't stopped innovations that we aren't keen to yet.

[@clevertaco328]

You can start by not parroting the propaganda lie of "fossil fuels" since these "fuels" have absolutely nothing to do with fossils nor fuel from fossils. It was invented to give the illusion of scarcity in order to drive up and inflate prices at or near the turn of the 20th century. Similar to what they did with diamonds when they were worth little to nothing before the marketing campaigns were set upon the ignorant masses.

[@ReinReads]

We have the technology now in solar+wind+storage. It’s significantly cheaper than fossil fuels & nuclear. With a bonus of make if humanity much less susceptible to the chaos that will follow global blackouts if/when we are hit by the next Miyake event scale solar flare. Distributed energy generation & storage is the key. Solving our dependence on fossil fuels & centralized generation may end up saving billions of lives.

[@ianbd77]

Well it's certainly intriguing and worth a shot. Definitely worth watching out for. Great balanced reporting Anton.

[@smellthel]

The thing is, the second law of thermodynamics is just a pattern, not an actual law. At quantum scales those laws are violated all the time, so I am really interested in future attempts to try and harness quantum effects at a macro scale!

[@CorwynGC]

Everything that is call a "law" in Science is just a pattern. And none of those laws are violated when you use the proper formulation of the law.

[@FrederikFalk21]

⁠@@CorwynGC smell has a point. Maybe pattern is not the right word but thermodynamics is based on statistical physics. Whereas for example gravity is a law, thermodynamics is based on statistics of how systems behave on large scales, or rather TEND to behave. In the same sense that there’s a non-zero probability of tunneling to the moon spontaneously, there is also a non-zero chance of entropy to decrease in a closed system, although it violates the laws of thermodynamics

[@CorwynGC]

@@FrederikFalk21 No one knows if gravity is based on statistics. But it most certainly is NOT a law that we understand.

[@FrederikFalk21]

@@CorwynGC That’s nonsense, statistics is a mathematical discipline developed by humans. Statistical physics is both inherently probabilistic and deterministic while gravity is deterministic, both Einstein’s theory as well as Newton’s.

[@CorwynGC]

@@FrederikFalk21 So you know what happens with gravity at the core of black holes? You know whether gravitons exist and whether they behave like other quantum particles? Because no one else does.

[@MichaelAussie05]

That list was brilliant.

[@oubliette862]

what happens if there's 2 entangled particles and one goes into a black hole, what happens to the other one?

[@1974greymalkin]

Excellent question!! That would be a very cool experiment.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

great question.

[@bugtusslealien3931]

That's called destination F!😂

[@MCsCreations]

Nobody knows... Yet.

[@kiewies]

Hello Wonderful Anton! I suspect this time of year is hard for you, so I hope you can find some time for remembrance and being kind to yourselves💗 You have been a rock throughout the years for me and I hope you have a rock of your own to see you thru the turbulent emotions of the holiday season.

[@funky555]

If this works then thats the ticket to interstellar travel... which would have terrifying implications for the fermi paradox

[@pirobot668beta]

How? This is not FTL, it's not Warp...it's a new kind of thruster. Getting to the next star is still going to take 100's of years...

[@ekothesilent9456]

@@pirobot668betait’s not just “a new kind of thruster” it’s a massless thruster. Which would disprove multiple laws of physics, and laws of thermodynamics. The conversion of energy to velocity without mass is currently science fiction. A thruster capable of this WOULD be capable of “eventual” light speed travel. Yes it would take a ridiculous time to accelerate to that speed but once you breach relativistic speeds it doesn’t matter how long it took to get to that speed, just that you got to it.

[@StickySyrupEverywhere]

Problem with such things today is, if it works, they'll probably say it doesn't. Thank you for being a solid anchor point Anton.

[@scooble]

I predict that when they turn on the drive, it'll disappear, then reappear seven years later in a decaying orbit around Neptune

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

Funny that. Libera Te Tutemet Ex Inferis :)

[@jamesphillips2285]

9:30 a Patent requires the disclosure of the invention. You are describing a "trade secret". The advantage of a trade secret for inventors is that they never expire: unlike patents which reward inventors with a limited period of exclusivity in return for disclosing inventions.

[@Nat-oj2uc]

Both are bs tools of narcissists with money and they hinder human progress

[@snapfinger1]

Anton, you give me hope that my IQ may one day rise above room temperature.

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

Well given that you obviously have learned language your IQ is many times over 25. Or do you use the US temperature scale?

[@Lowlander-ci7is]

Sign me up... When do we leave for Alpha Centauri

[@TheRogueWolf]

I probably won't be surprised by the results of this experiment, but I would totally love to be. Never know 'til you try.

[@hughlion1817]

You kinda do know when the math isn't in disagreement but I agree with the spirit of your point also we can't rule out effects that we haven't fully understood or even detected yet so this could show us something we haven't seen simply by demonstrating genuinely reproducable anomalous results

[@kipponi]

Yes and we learn failures too👍.

[@anonymes2884]

"Never know 'til you try." I mean, you don't _know_ a 1,000 foot fall will kill you (people have survived them). But you make the decision not to walk off a cliff based on what you _do_ know.

[@hughlion1817]

@@anonymes2884 thankfully though in this case, the only thing at risk here is some money, some time and some space on a spaceX rocket. so no biggie imho

[@andym4695]

I worked as an R&D tech for a bit more than a decade. I came up with saying to describe my experiences: It probably won't work If it works, it probably won't work well If it works well, it probably won't work as well as something you can buy already if it works better than something you can buy already, it probably won't work so much better that a company is willing to rip out its entire production line at the cost of millions or billions of dollars and replace it with your tech. But as we know, occasionally, very, very occasionally, someone hits the ball out of the park.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Ruling things out is always worthy. Reality is one big question with plenty to rule out

[@kentrefftzs708]

Spasiba Anton, i enjoy your content very much. Keep up the good work.

[@JayCross]

If a particle-anti-particle pair are formed at the event horizon, how much energy would the one on the outside have to have to escape falling back into the black hole? I have doubts about Hawking Radiation.

[@manuellujan666]

I do also it's so full of holes and explains nothing we didn't already know

[@filonin2]

By all means, publish a paper showing your math on these supposed holes. The holes are in your knowledge and understanding.

[@LoLaSn]

I'm more curious about how exactly the hawking radiation results in a loss of mass for the black hole If it's just two particles that are supposed to annihilate on the horizon and one gets sucked in while the other escapes, wouldn't it mean that half of the ones that fall in are matter and half are anti-matter?

[@nycgweed]

How many licks to the center of a tootsie

[@RolandPihlakas]

I suggest you to consult ChatGPT on that topic. I did a while ago and it explained the aspects which previously seemed strange to me. My questions were on related themes as yours.

[@mateuskn]

13:38 So you see, that's where the trouble began. That smile. That damn smile.

[@southernbreeze3278]

they're not "making it a patent." they're keeping it a secret, probably a trade secret. filing for a patent requires public disclosure of the technology.

[@arctic_haze]

But they did publish papers on this, describing the device in detail.

[@jcriley7695]

Best science channel I know of. Absolute titan on delivering awesome topics.

[@truezulu]

"Doing something funny..." Really? If it turned out, that that thing could have a localized effect on Earths gravity field! That would mean Nobel prize.

[@Jacobk-g7r]

3:00 maybe black holes keep the flow constant. Or maybe since the universe is expanding, we think we don’t slow down but we really do but in relation to the expanse as well because earth is moving too so if we use a point where nothing is moving it’s still moving because the expansion. Maybe that’s why the bonds get weaker as we expand/evolve through space. The accumulation is an expanse in a different way but still a transfer of energy.

[@massspectrometer6757]

I'm in shock. They actually are testing the "EM" drive. Thanks for staying both grounded and hopeful. To Titan!

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

No, this the QM, not the EM, that's a whole different bucket of microwave radiation.

[@richard--s]

On Titan, people would need oxygen, but would be able to fly like the people in the antique times thought some thousand years ago ;-) Put on your wings and fly! On Titan of course. Oh, also in a Moon habitat. You would have an air pressure like in the ISS in the habitat and you would have a low gravity. Happy flapping, happy flying there!

[@costrio]

I remember when artificial satellites were hypothetical, a little while ago.

[@harmless6813]

I don't.

[@JamesLaserpimpWalsh]

Thanks Anton. It's been an amazing year from our perspective. Ideas we thought were set in stone are now up for question. In a serious way. Here's to hoping next year brings some of the answers we have always looked for. Happy xmas by the way.

[@Bildgesmythe]

I'm skeptical, but I wish them luck.

[@andrewfarrar741]

Pardon?

[@Bildgesmythe]

@@andrewfarrar741 I doubt it will work. I hope it does. Space exploration has always been a dream of mine. I hope humanity can progress. I just don't see that happening before we go extinct.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

It either fails and proves the current model of physics is correct, or it succeeds and we find out we didn't understand physics as well as we think we do.

[@bladecole]

Yay. First. What’s up Anton!

[@linuxophile]

A blast from the past! My undergraduate thesis was on the Unruh and Hawking effects.

[@tursqzlato118]

First

[@glenh1369]

Well done!

[@joshcline8764]

I respect you!

[@Nomad-o3u]

Also had a record 7 times red Auroras reached lower latitudes which used to take X strength flares to accomplish, we haven't had an x flare hit the Earth this year. A sign that Earth's magnetic field is indeed weakening.

[@peadarr]

Of course this engine will need fuel, what it won’t need is propellant (as in a medium to push off in order to maintain the law of conservation of energy). In rockets the fuel doubles as propellant but they are two different things

[@gregoiresauvaigo1254]

Thanks, for your brilliant videos!

[@thelump7622]

I can’t afford the wonderful T-shirt! But some of you guys can, not all cool people on KZbin are villains. This guy is awesome

[@D3adP00I]

We need more of this.

[@TheTravelersTravels]

I love all your videos! Thank you for what you do! ❤❤❤

[@ChipLinck]

I had a Quantum Drive in my PC many years ago. 🤪 Maxtor bought their HDD unit. They still make backup solutions though.

[@michaeljohnson1805]

Anton you lost me with the ‘hello wonderful person’ 😂

[@wkh4321music]

12:31 you found my portable table saw, thanks

[@robertanderson5092]

I am more excited for the positron/electron antimatter Compton effect drive

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

Well, there is ONE way to generate thrust using nothing but electricity, but the technology as of yet isn't very efficient; light propulsion. Photons carry their own inertia, meaning when you shine a laser in one direction it imparts a force pushing in the opposite direction, but we've yet to build a laser both powerful enough and compact enough to generate enough thrust to be useful in any way.

[@andiralosh2173]

This is an interesting experiment, although I can't say I like the idea of investors throwing into hype what doesn't have the best scientific grounding. Certainly we should try experiments on the fringe, but also be honest without pop-sci magic. In conclusion, thanks as always for the science education you do 🙌

[@petersvancarek]

Impossible drive seems to be really impossible. The satellite doesn't move