Alcubierre Drive: Warp Speed - Star Trek fantasy or plausible?
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Alcubierre warp drive - faster than light travel? Is Warp speed possible? Enterprise from Star Trek can go 9000 times the speed of light. By comparison, the fastest manmade object, the Juno probe goes 0.0002 times the speed of light. At this rate, it would take 20,000 years to reach the nearest alien planet, which with the Enterprise, would take only 4.5 hours.
But isn’t faster than light travel forbidden by Einstein’s special theory of relativity? There is a loophole. Mexican physicist, and Star Trek fan, Miguel Alcubierre published a paper on “The warp drive”. He manipulated Einstein’s equations of general relativity to make a warp field emerge - regardless of whether other laws of physics would allow it. But his equations are mathematically consistent solutions to Einstein’s equations.
And this is how Alcubierre’s warp drive would work: Take a space ship and put a bubble of space around it. If you can compress space in front of the bubble, and expand space behind the bubble, then you can make the bubble of space along with the space ship, move. This would be like riding a wave on a surfboard. This is where the loophole is in Einstein’s speed limit, that nothing can move faster than the speed of light. This speed limit only applies to objects traveling within space, not the movement of space itself. Space can move at any speed.
So that bubble of space in Alcubierre’s geometric solution can move at any arbitrary speed, theoretically, even 9000 times the speed of light. But Can space really move at faster than light speed? Yes.
Space is being expanded in the back of our spaceship, and being contracted in front of it. Can space expand and contract like this? Yes, Space is allowed to do both. Space is contracting around you and earth right now. That’s what gravity is. Similarly, Space can expand too. It is expanding right now on a cosmological scale.
Alcubeirre’s warp drive, creates a bubble around the ship, which is like the surfboard. The ship sits within this bubble. Your ship does not move within the bubble itself, so Einstein’s laws are not violated. To make space warp locally around a spaceship like this requires a lot of mass or it’s Energy equivalent via E=MC^2. And this is not just regular mass or regular energy. This is negative mass and negative energy.
How do you get anti-gravity? You need negative matter - or exotic matter. This is something that would have negative gravity. The problem is Negative matter is not known to exist. Note that negative matter is not anti-matter. Antimatter does not have negative gravity. It has positive gravity. You could substitute the energy equivalent of negative matter, and that is negative Energy. But again, what the heck is negative energy? This is not the same as an absence of energy. It is energy with a value less than 0 that would allow you to expand space-time. But Antigravity has never been seen in a lab.
However, anti gravity, negative mass, and negative energy are not forbidden in Einstein’s equations. Could this mean that if we are clever enough, could we create it? Let’s presume that we could. There is group at NASA called the Advanced Propulsion Team, also known as Eagleworks, who is working with this assumption. Harold White’s calculations show that a 10 meter diameter ship could go at 10 times the speed of light.
White’s team has even tested the feasibility of warping space by doing a very small scale table top test. They have attempted to slightly warp the trajectory of a photon, changing the distance it travels over a fixed length. The first test was done in 2013 and was inconclusive.
Is negative energy even realistic? What about the Casimir effect displaying negative energy? This is a quantum mechanical phenomenon that occurs when two conducting plates are brought very close together. When this is done, a certain proportion of the virtual particle frequencies between the plates are excluded, because not all frequencies will fit between the 10 nm space.
Frequencies with wavelengths higher than 10 nanometers will be excluded, whereas, all frequencies will fit outside the plates. The pressure outside the plates is greater than the pressure inside the plates. This creates is a real mechanical energy that can be measured.
Some scientists have proposed harnessing this negative energy of the vacuum on a large scale. But this is flawed, because the energy between the plates is not negative. No energy be harnessed to make a warp drive using the Casimir effect?
There is one observational phenomenon that should give us hope that negative energy or anti gravity may exist. 70% of our universe is made of this. It is expanding space. It is possible that sometime in the future, if we can develop a better understanding of dark energy, we can learn to harness it, and use it to power the warp engine.
#AlcubierreDrive - Věda a technologie
Errata:: 1) Enterprise E is shown, not Enterprise D 2) Narration should say "Proxima Centauri B" which is nearest exoplanet, not "Proxima Centauri" which is the star around which the exoplanet orbits.
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@TypeLuo yes
The concept is so interesting that even a die hard Trekkie missed enterprise D is not it. I was just more focused on the topic, cool!
Also, senTAWree vs senCHURRee
People in 2553 be like:
WhOs HeRe AfTeR WaRp DriVe wAs CrEatED?
I think they would be more concerned with the Covenant.
@@leoplumer2544 but the War with the Covenant would have already ended by that year
Lmao!!!
People in 2553: "Now everyone has a warp drive in their pocket."
I am
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This type of stuff makes me wanna live forever to see this shit happen
I'm just waiting for the day I can full dive into a game.
I whant to se people having spaceship in there garages like regular cars
We will live forever, just BELIEVE, if you don’t remember anything, remember this.
@@RainingTsunami can we be immortal
@Dc Juice we can, but only for a temporary time, only a celestial being can hold unto immortality eternally
Now I understand why my younger brother is stealing my college physics books after watching startrek
You
Support him please
He is actually trying to contribute something unlike most people (not saying you ofc)
this is it! This is why I want to start watching Star Trek.
@@masicbemester Generations is when it starts getting plausible.
My grandmother was born in 1900. When she was ten years old, she watched one of the first 60 mph airplanes fly over the farm where she lived. She died at the age of 101, and lived to see space probes sent out of the Solar system. Who knows what the next 100 years will bring?
Super Artificial Intelligence. After level 3 AI (we're just at the beginning of level 1), who knows...
100 years of globalist tyranny.
Delavalmiker: I hope that a scientific advance of the same proportions is not at the expense of world wars.
Yes future would be cooool
World leaders: big plutonium ball go vroooooom
I predict in 100 years we will be able to overcome our current technological limitation that makes 1 + 1 always equal 2.
When Stephen Hawking was being shown around the Star Trek sets he looked at the warp core and said (typed) "I'm working on that"
I'm a physics student and this just made my day. Thank you Sir!
@@Xbox360SlimFan no problem good sir. I heard that snippet whilst watching a program on star trek. If I can find it on youtube I will post it here.
I remember watching Star Trek one day and thinking that actor playing Stephen Hawking looks just like him. Then I looked at the credits for the show. Holy crap! That was Stephen Hawking! It's completely awesome that they had him do a cameo in that episode.
HE WAS DREAMING ABOUT IT !!!
PERIOD...........
OPEC and the clintons killed him.
The man who discovers how to bend space for interstellar travelling will be remembered forever, he will be the one responsible for a huge step in human history.
So Alcubierre need to remembered forever
@@ririshutabarat6367 the theory behind the alcubierre drive is not even close in magnitude to the discovery of negative energy
nanos gigantium humeris insidentes
Let's not get all egotistical about this, who are we to say we "discover" any of these?
Jokes aside, it could be for the best or for the worst. Any life-changing tech has mild to severe results. Ok we get interstellar, we make first contact, what now? With interstellar travel, comes the risk of meeting another sentiant being. If it's anything I have learned from hard scifi, computer games, it's that, the two most important rules, or should I say laws, communication and defenses.
@@oliverperkinso3755 Your basing this on our species. What if other aliens found a universal truth. The galaxy is vast and abundant.
“We need to go light speed.” “No that’s not fast enough we need to go to ludicrous speeds!”
"...Ludicrous speed? I'm not sure the ship can take it"
“What’s the matter Kernel Sanders? Chicken?”
Hi brother
I have finally found another
Meet with Primystery
@@Mark-ci6ln we are very rare... We act in the shadow for serve the light
Honestly, I firmly believe that Humans can achieve just about anything that they put their minds to. No matter how far fetched some ideas may seem.
I mean, the technology is literally a massive strech.
@@certifiedpossum8655 We'd need a new revolutionary modes of energy generation I think for us to proceed to the next stages. I do believe that the greed of corporations is silencing or limiting the release of such possibilities though.
I would ask were on this earth are the resources for such a task and like you said you have to deal with finacing.
The problem is that we want to run before we can walk.
Maybe we should start with eugenics, conquer hate and rage..
Then death itself. We're insufficiently evolved to be a space-faring civilisation.
And yet we have poor millenials and Gen Z all over the place, except Norway.
Man, I hate my generation. Thanks a lot boomers!
I can picture the first ever pilot saying "Engage, maximum warp!"
Just gives me the chills thinking about it!
_ffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFWMP!_ _pshhh!_
"AAaAAaAAaaaAAAaAaaAaAaaAaAAaaaAAaAAaAaaAaaaaAAaaaaaAAaAaA!"
Why would he say that if he is the pilot? xD
Captain: Engage.
2 seconds later their bubble collapses
Engage number 1
as he is atomized into star dust, it will go down as the most famous last words ever uttered.
Literally the best explanation I've heard yet. You deserve money for the quality of explanation you just gave, in my opinion.
Give him money then
@@turkishwarriormapper7641 give ME money then...
@@ManOfPillowDoom what’s your venmo
He gets money from ads
We need more people working on this. I need to see other earth like planets before I die.
Than why dont you go work
"Those who control the spice, control the universe"
Thumbs up for the Dune reference! Great novel and movie.
Should we can say that space is god.....because god is one for everyone and shape less like space🤔
@@ArvinAsh There's a reason Frank Herbert's Dune novels are generally considered the greatest novels in all of science fiction. Dune was the direct inspiration for much of Star Wars - the entire fictional universe of Star Wars wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for Dune. While the 1984 Dune film leaves the viewer with the assumption that the Navigators could manipulate space time for space travel, this assumption is entirely incorrect. In the books, the ships themselves manipulate space time; so that's the part of the equation that your video here was discussing. But if you remember, in Dune, the most important and valuable aspect of space travel were the Navigators - humans that had evolved over hundreds of years using the spice known as Melange, which gave the Navigators short-term prescience abilities. This gave them small glimpses of the near-future, which allowed them to know when objects would be in the path of the traveling space ship that would result in a collision (stars, asteroids, comets, meteors, planets, moons, and other space debris), so they could adjust the trajectory of the space-ship accordingly to avoid the collision. That's why they were called Navigators. And that's the greatest problem of them all - you can't travel that fast unless you have an effective way to navigate so you can avoid collisions with the various types of objects you'll encounter during space travel - such as stars, asteroids, comets, meteors, planets, moons, etc. To this day the subject of navigation is one very few science fiction movies like to touch - the reason it's briefly mentioned in the first Star Wars film is because the concept of navigation was still very fresh in George Lucas' mind from the Dune novels.
@@tekelupharsin4426 But you are not traveling that fast. Traveling at or near light speed though space would do that but you are creating a pocket and moving in that with this drive. It pushes every thing else out of the way.
Ya movie n book great, in essence warping space is one way but if we could fold it n create a momentary worm(black holes) with controllable point n a safe zone in the middle-zone for travelers we could find those galaxies in moments not years
FINALLY someone gives a good explanation of the Alcubierre Drive!!
If the Alcubierre Drive was plausible, then Miguel Alcubierre would have been working on solving it non-stop since he wrote his original paper in 1994. It would be his life's work. He hasn't thought about it since 1994. That's all you need to know.
@@ohroonoko but White doesn't need him, so I wonder what he's (White) up to these days..
ikr
@@ohroonoko Oh yeah. We so forget that imaginary propulsion systems based on supposition vaguely related to misconceptions of relativity is called....Science Fiction. Gene Roddenberry imagined wrap drive as a plot mechanism for a science fiction franchise. Just because he imagined something that looks like early cell phones does not mean the show is factual
Andrew G scientists managed to refine that down to a much more manageable energy requirement, something like the Empire State Building.
Pov: you came here when it gone from plausible to possible
Yep lmao
yes
For
wait... WHAT ?!
(is this serious or is this a joke for future viewers ?)
@@SparkDragon42 when this video was made it was seen as literally impossible but now they think it's possible of course no time soon tho.
He's talking theoretical physics. My brain is currently dealing with "what's for supper tonight"?
I am too. lol.
???
Einstein said we have to be curious to do science.
Scientist 1: Is warp drive possible?
Scientist 2: What's for supper tonight?
Curious in their own ways as always.
I'm still working on "What time is it?"
I love how this explains such an amazingly complex concept in a way that a person with only a basic understanding of physics can still fully appreciate the information being given.
Dylan J define basic
Except is it a lie. No matter how you compress or expand the space, you still have to travel across that same space, so no FTL.
Surfing 🌊🏄is great. Warp too.
So you're tellin me there's a chance!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSS!!!!!!
Just discover or detect any gram of negative mass.
@@b.v.862 It's a reference from Dumb and dumber...it's a joke
YESSIR!! xD
If it works I’m going to be extremely happy
Scientist be like: “ how can we harness the power of dark energy to make warp drive real?” Everyone else: “ So, how can we make a bomb from it?”
sadly so true.
I try to not think too much about, what we could have achieved if people more often would have researched with the goal of general progress rather than more effective war machines
I mean what is the point of building a bomb that could kill millions of people ?
This is why I'm glad people don't have access to negative energy yet.
@@theuwuguy6175 people are suprisingly naive.
@@joelkunkel1935 you know, I don’t want a war machine I just like big explosions and stuff but I hate death, so really I would want to keep big bombs to myself to blow up things that won’t harm anyone lol and the same thing with lasers XD
Edit: but I would much rather make incredible speed travel and genetic engineering so humans are super strong and live forever and we can travel between planets super freaking fast
Like the professor says in Futurama: The ship doesn't move through space, it moves space around the ship.
@Enlightened ☀️ chicken or beef?
@Enlightened ☀️ the matter and energy in the distorted space wouldn't matter i think :)
the distortion is relative, and only those inside the ship could see the distortion - as a relative effect to their own frame of reference. within the distorted space, everything is distorted, so to objects within the distortion, no distortion occurs. and these theoretical phenomenon would occur at such speeds as Cx meaning that the amount of time anything spends distorted would be incredibly small, and likely too small for even those inside the ship travelling at warp-speeds to notice..
that's my thoughts on it anyhow
Fanciful nonsense .
Enlightened ☀️ That is wrong. You are basically in a bubble, nothing would effect you as long u are inside that ship. It creates it own gravity
JohnSmith M You wished. Its real and possible. It's a matter of time.
Me: "this video"
My Boss: yeah yeah yeah, but can you build it and be done by the end of the week?
Yes Boss ...
"Already sold to a client"
And get me a picture of Spiderman!
and this is why I hate being an engineer
That's how software companies work.
Sales team: So we promised the client this.
Programmer: But it isn't possible to do with our current hardware.
Sales: you have until next month.
I listened to Alcubiar on the "Event Horizon" podcast a while ago and even he himself said that his warp-drive principal was most likely impossible because he pointed out a many number of issues that would arise with it and he said himself that some type of wormhole technology was more likely to be possible than his warp-drive concept simply because wormholes mainly only have issues you have to solve to get them to work instead of negative issues that arise from them working in the first place, I'd be down for either but I think wormholes would definitely have a more dramatic impact in our everyday lives as a means of travel rather than having a big spaceship able to move in outer space, instead of airports on earth or any other planet we could have wormhole-ports which could help us travel
This is the first time I've enjoyed a video so much without understanding a word! All I know is there's a chance that warp drive could become reality!!
Light slow, warp fast, need more science!
When my wife Walks in the room its instantly filled with negative energy...
according to my equations respecting all the laws of wifery around 250 unhappy wifes would be enough negative energy to propel anti gravity vehicle of any size for around 50 000 light years
Arlo, you must have married my ex. Sorry. 🥴
@@neo69121 How many pissed off ex-wives, I wonder?
@@SuperPhunThyme9 just one
Divorce her then you miserable git.
Everyone: is It possible to go faster than the light?
Game speedruners: observe
*WAHOO INTENSIFIES*
@@tomascelis9661 yep
Yes it's been done in nature
@Klint shayler lol you had this in wait it feels like! Will have to read when at home. Brief thought though the new shortest distance for anything is at the quantum level. Think exchange of info. This in my imagination is key to teleportation.
@Klint shayler ok boomer
Thank you for rationally discussing hypothetical concepts without any BS or sensationalization. You show that it's OK to entertain unusual ideas without getting caught up in it and accepting it as fact without any evidence.
It's a credit to the Star Trek writers. They tried to keep it as grounded in real science as they could. Everything from transparent aluminum,iPads, smartphones, Google Glass, etc, were all depicted in Star Trek before it was invented.
It's been argued that anything you can imagine can be done somehow, the logic being that imagining something physically impossible is itself physically impossible. Human imagination cannot concieve of anything impossible or physics defying because our brains are composed of matter from the universe which itself has rules. So everything you can think of is within the realm of universal possibility.
The trick is figuring out how to do it. Once we solve the energy problem, things like FTL will be small potatoes.
Negative energy huh? Just grab Desync, he knows the power of the accelerated backhop
"So guys you wanna prop climb over this solar system real quick"
@@bman7346 alright now thats that we're just going to bypass these aliens and we should just grab one of their weapons to boost us.
This was so well done, easy to follow and understand the actual concept, and the stumbling blocks needed to be overcome. Basically, the expansion of the universe proves that negative energy exists, we just don’t know what the heck it is at this point. Not only will it make a warp drive work, but it can create anti gravity, and artificial gravity, but it may take us a few hundred years to come up with the answers. Straight talk about science. A+
No it can't. It violates causality. No matter what, you can't get around that violation.
@@amberblakley9315 In a way it well, but the concept was to use the ionized particles in space to fuel a fussion rocket. The problem was to do that with the amount of particle. So you have to be going fast enough to get enough mass to produce a fussion reaction. In the way you are correct is that in vaccum engineering and the false vaccuum state the movement and density of particles effects the fabric of space.
@@Malamockq Not according to einstein he said time is not a thing. Time is not a dimension and time travel is impossible. The effects of time distortions or within time dialation.
@@clementvining2487 Appeal to authority fallacy. Besides, Einstein never said FTL is possible.
@@Malamockq Einstein said light is a universal speed limit. And he showed how hard it was to get to the speed of light. But also said that if nothing went faster than light the universe would not exist. He also showed in general relativity that space could expand faster than light. He showed that light going into a blackhole would move faster than the speed of light in normal space in a vacuum. He said that time is not a constant. Warp drive does not go against general relativity. And time travel is impossible because time is not a thing and time is not a dimension. There is nothing in Einstein's work that does not allow warp drive to be possible. Even with the possibility of time travel warp drive is possible because the ship does not move, the curved space around the ship moves. There is a difference no violation.
White-Alcubierre Rapid Propulsion Drive (or WARP Drive for short)
This would be an epic naming win.
Informally known as the space mullet drive. Short wave in front with expanded wave behind, business up front and party in the back.
Haha that is the icing on the cake
Alcubierre deserve's the *first* name spot being the one who originally proposed the idea, with theory, while White _optimized_ it 🤔
But, I can see the why u did so 😏
I think it is not exactly a propulsion. You gotta have another word for that P.
That was fascinating. Excellent episode. Nice to see Alcubierre's concept visualized
Fantastic video, thank you. An actual explanation in layman's terms of the Alcubierre drive that still answers the relevant questions.
It saddens my heart that I'll not live long enough to explore space
I hear you brother.
I think about this every day. We can still dream though my friend.
2030 we're going to mars man. Its about to begin :)
@@AZ-dp4ht I hope you're right, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
@@AZ-dp4ht In the year 2148, explorers on Mars discovered the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization. In the decades that followed, these mysterious artifacts revealed startling new technologies, enabling travel to the furthest stars. The basis for this incredible technology was a force that controlled the very fabric of space and time.
They called it the greatest discovery in human history.
The civilizations of the galaxy call it... MASS EFFECT.
I had the whole negative energy problem solved, but then the wife comes home with a pizza, bottle of Lambrusco, and a smile, and I forgot the whole equation!!
Lucky you!
I got my negative energy to a much higher state. To dissipate the associated warp field my wife bought home all of the above plus a really cute friend.
So well and simply explained. I love your video! Even without sleep at 3am, I am engrossed and understand everything you say!
Exciting something to look forward to possibilities are there👍 great video glad to find the channel👍
At 45 now I feel that most of my time on earth has been experienced already. That given the fact that historically, most of my deceased close relatives i.e grandparents, uncles etc, have all passed away of natural causes at a relatively young age. A mathematic average infact of just 62.
So with that being said... just hurry up already and please get to Mars.
A manned mission and the first steps of of mankind walking on the Red Planet televised is all I want to see before I die, as I'm sure do many.
I'm going to hang on to life as long as I can and learn as much as is possible to me, but please for the love of God, advance quickly.
Lots of love from one human being to another.
Thank you.
I believe the first missions are scheduled for sometime in the 2030s, so stay healthy my friend.
@@ArvinAsh I'm trying pal, but I have many ailments currently. Just.... ne ed.... m o re... tim😵
🤣🤣
Pretty sure we have no way to bring the people from Mars back to Earth, which means that we can't send them there in the first place. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, manned missions to Mars are still impossible with current technology.
@@beri4138 I think the volunteers being recruited are being told that it is a "one way" mission.
@@ArvinAsh I doubt anyone would authorize such a mission.
It's amazing how long it took scientist to finally stop trying to tear Einstein's work apart when they could have been adding to it all along. Einstein's work was unfinished which is why it seemed implausible.
Good comment. When Einstein first proposed relativity only a handful of people understood it. Today maybe still only 20,000 people understand. Can you explain his tensor equations and the math of time dialation?
Ever heard of the scientific method?
Because a big part of scientific theories is going out of your way to try to disprove these theories to best ensure that youre getting the most accurate explanation. Its great that there werent any flaws in e=mc^2, but if there was, and we never tested it to find out, wed be working with a flawed equation
Since beginning of time:
Physicist and Theorists: Yeah, theoretical it’s maybe possible but in praxis I see no chance how to apply it, because there are certain problems that cannot be solved!
Engineers: Ohh you actually say it’s possible? Ok then, hold my beer!
Also consider:
Mathematicians: We found this new equation! Too bad It's probably not applicable to anything in the real world...
Physicists: Neat! It solves the problem I was having!
Grammatically it's possible but there are many problems to be solved.
@@Fireintie Not practical physicists but Theoretical physicists. They don't live in the real world
Medical students like me: what the hell are u even talking about?????¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
@@Fireintieimagine being a noob at non-euclidean curved geometry.
This post was made by Grossman, aimed towards einstein.
I hope that I live long enough, to see attempts at warp drives
It’s a stretch but I hope I live long enough to see a United federation of humans and aliens
@@samstuff8554 I would love to live at least longer so we could make contact with an advanced alien species.
@@MBulldog1979 I firmly believe that that there’s many out there but how would we communicate basically everything down to simple lines have one meaning to us but if your an alien you might have a completely foreign understanding of things like language or writing or even concepts like time it’s cool to see how different even human cultures are from each other there’s so many possibilities for intelligent life. Before we can get there tho we gotta fix a lot of problems like if we don’t fix global warming commit to denuclearization the Vulcans could show up in 500 years and find an uninhabited planet it’s a hard problem tho cause even if we commit to change why would any other country. China doesn’t care about global warming so we don’t care either and even if we all start working together we have no trust cause everyone has a history or lying. But I’m hopefully we will eventually come to our senses we just need better governments
Even elon and Jeff etc wont live long enough to see any of this. I will have to be satisfied knowing there is life out there somewhere. But will I get proof before I die ........
@@MBulldog1979 First thing our government would do is go to war with them because they don't have a "democratic" system.
just thinking on how far we've gone in 200 years is literally the most amazing thing one can think on
yet 'we're poorer than ever
@@PazLeBon What are you talking about? The life expectancy has increased worldwide. The stillborn birth rate has decreased, and the world's population is continuing to increase. How do you figure we're poorer than ever?
A poor person in today's western society has access to more (and better) resources (food, water, medicine, etc.) than nobles of previous centuries. Access to resources is the proper way to compare the well-being of different eras and cultures.
@@PazLeBon life quality is literally better than ever.
@@PazLeBon Even someone technically in poverty lives better than many people that lived before the industrial revolution, and globalization helped a lot in every aspect, from food quality and quantity to life expectancy and education, information is out there, just search it.
@@PazLeBon Actaully not ture, we are richer than ever before as a whole. it's the distrubution of wealth which is more uneven than ever. But even then thats only because the richest are so rich. Wanna know poor, go back in time and talk to a medieval peasent.
I just started my undergrad in physics because of Quantum field theory and Alcubierre's theoretical warp drive. I hope to study dark energy and it's implications toward harnessing negative energy/anti-gravity.
Good for you!
@@ArvinAsh Thanks for the response! much like Alcubierre, I was inspired to study the universe when I was young by watching shows like TNG and Cosmos. One of the concepts that fascinates me is one put forth by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the idea that we are they way by which the universe is able to know itself.
Thanks for this video. It helped me understand a bit better the idea of warp drive.
Love the video. I've read some of the remarks here & it amazes me how not many ppl are willing to think on their own. They repeat what they have been taught in school. For myself I like to question everything. Like time travel! We do not know the mysteries that abound in space. Periodic table is not complete maybe 2x more. Why is space so dark? What if C was not the ultimate speed limit. What if something else exceeds that. We wouldn't know bcuz we can't detect it. Can we see oxygen or hydrogen with the naked eye? What we see in our universe is also how large the atomic universe is. Visible universe=positive whereas the atomic universe=negative universe. We don't know how to detect things like dark matter, dark energy, the ether, etc. Negative energy is there we just don't know how to detect it yet. One more thing I would like to inspire ppl to think about designing an engine that we can use to achieve 28.5 million mph. At that speed we can get to the edge of our solar system in 2 weeks.
Im just amazed. I can't believe I study in the same University as Alcubierre, who is a teacher there.
Kindly tell us what Prof. Al was like is He so serious or fun to be with?
Eliasguitarred
You want to earn some extra credentials to look good on your resume do an interview of Alcubierre on camera ask questions and have him draw examples on a whiteboard.
Also ask him What is his take on Robert Lazar’s scientific explination of the spacecraft he worked on at S-4 Area51, since the Craft seemed to use a propulsion system that specifically performed this mode of travel-Creating a concentrated gravitational distortion in front of it and _free-falling_ towards that distortion which essentially means its bending Space-time towards it to move.
Check out the Lazar Tape:
czcams.com/video/bdRvcSHtYbQ/video.html
@@SilhSe I've never taken a course of his, I'll check out what he'll be teaching this semester, but I doubt anything I can or really want to take lol, I think he focuses (obviously) on physics courses, whic I think I can take, but I'm a math student and tight now I don't really want to spend credits on physics courses, although I've seen him like 2 times, he seems a cool prof.
@@effortlessawareness8778 oh my, that seems like something I'll have to study for years before I understand, but seems so cool, I'll check out the interview, thanks!!!
Dear Eliasguitarred: At age 68 I tell you what matters. Nearly all professors are intelligent and nearly all are equally pompous.
However, an open mind can often trump over the most of intelligent minds - including your professor Alcubierre. For example: If I were in any of his classes I would confront him with the following. When we walk we walk through space. We don't stand still ordering all of space to come to us. Not even the most wealthiest of us, nor the most famous of us, has the ego to even speculate that all of the universe comes to us. Furthermore, this pompous theory assumes that all of the asteroids, comets, and other space junk are going to make way for our spacecraft of say about 500 million miles per hour (that's nearly 75% the speed of light). So, odds are, given enough travel at that speed - Ka Bang! That would be the result hitting just a basketball sized asteroid! And onboard radar wouldn't be able to warn you in time (to turn from it) because radar has to travel twice the distance and you are already traveling 75% speed of that radar - going one way! I repeat again - Ka Bang or Ka Boom - whichever you prefer professor!
Kids in 2300 be like: how to make a warp drive in 10 minutes(no root)
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Great job Arvin Ash, I teach Math and Science at the Home Schoo/University level. And intend to use your videos in the classroom. Well done.
It is my hope to establish a Science and Engineering Academy in North Dakota.
This is the best explanation of warp drive on CZcams
I really hope the test ship that we launch is named Enterprise, Roddenberry, or Cochrane. Star Trek has inspired so much of our modern lives, cellphones, medical tech, computers...
and people still like star wars better >=(
@@victorius2975 see, I kinda classify them both as separate entities and exemplars of thier own genres. Star Trek originally was about politics and what humans could be or do if we stopped being right bastards to each other. It gave hope, which is why I think it inspires so much.
Star Wars is quintessential space opera. It's more about the old stories of knights, princesses, and wizards only set in space. It instead focuses more on telling a tale. The lore and tech are filled in later. It's an escape. Nothing in our universe is connected to it.
I can see why some people would be attracted more to the hope of Star Trek, or the fantastical universe of Star Wars.
@@lvl10cooking and now they ruined star trek
@@robos3809 Star Trek needed to be modernized. I can understand certain aspects of the visuals changing and the subject matter. But it does appear that if CBS wants to salvage the brand, they need to start listening to their fan base a little more. Or, at least hire writers and directors who give a damn.
"Enterprise" is a well known name within the US Navy, so I wouldn't be surprised if that carried over to the space force.
If this ever works imagine the possibilities, I'd love to live in that time, where astronomical distances would be no more out of reach, we could even find different alien species
Yep...it could happen in our lifetime. Thank goodness NASA exists - they are the only ones to my knowledge who are seriously trying to figure this out.
Not to mention quantum teleportation and sub-spatial communication over interstellar distances. Star Trek tech is bare minimum for exploring the cosmos
@@OfMiceAndMegabytes The devil is always in the details, isn't it?
It does work smh.... Earthlings
I wonder how time dialation works here. If u travel thru space at high speed u travel into the future of those not moving relative to you. So if u warp the space itself would if work out to be the same? 0 dialtion because it expands back the same as it was? Would u go into the past? If u could instantly teleport to a planet 100 light years away and could look thru a telescope at earth u wud suddenly see it 100 years in the past from what u remember
By far one of the coolest vids I've seen so far
Ok, I have a few thoughts on this.
Implied in this video is that we have the technology to compress space, since most of it talks about how we haven't figured out how to expand it.
How do we compress space in front?
Wouldn't we be able to travel through the compressed space?
If not, or in addition, can we transfer the compressed space to the back of the ship, and let it decompress (thus expanding the space as intended)?
Analogy (typing off the cuff on my mobile here): you compress a spring, then let it expand by taking off the compressive force. The expansion does work - not as much as what was put in to compress it, but it's there.
In physics, compressing a spring in front of you, then transferring it to the back to expand and push you forward, isn't very practical. But it is essentially what we're talking about doing with space.
After that United State will be like "these aliens need democracy"
You can't hear the sound of freedom in space.
And then we come across the Klingons, who would absolutely DETEST democracy...
Womens rights and stuff lol
@@Planehazza so they wont see it coming, stealth bonus.
US General- "Can we strap a warp drive to a B-52?"
Aliens: woooow these weird unintelligent creations just found out the physics of the warp drive.
That's funny! Hay they managed not to destroy themselves too while testing! Quick tell them their going in the wrong direction in space! The other way stupid yea we need a universal tracking system. UTS
Aliens: "Warp drives? Anti-gravity? Lol, no one's used that for millions of years! It's all about willing your ship to be at it's destination!"
Dude, how crazy would it be if simply willing your ship to teleport to a new location is real, and our primitive brains just can't handle that yet? A brain that can not just bend reality, but will things in and out of it. It imagines, and then it is so.
@@Gottaculat hadnt thought of that xd
@@Gottaculat You've been watching Lucy again, haven't you?
@@Gottaculat WarHammer 40k has orks that do this and when anyone tries to use their tech it just falls apart because it works off will power
Well, if you take into consideration the current state of Star Trek offerings, there won't be any scientific breakthrough on this field any time soon.
Great video btw.
growing up I loved and still love sci-fi movies and listening to this gave me goosebumps and much pleasure. Hope we will reach that step in our evolution and be able to explore the universe and meet other civilisations. omg amazing.
Thank you for this. The fact we detected gravitational waves just reinforces the feasibility of the drive.
yes yes yes exactly my point gravitational waves is the medium the dark energy sits on by manipulating a gravitational wave the medium you could observe the negative energy and using hypervconductive coils of absolute zero the quantum field flows in the dark energy like a fuel line instant warp drive startup
You mean that one little chirp they cherry picked out of 200k plus data sets ? arxiv.org/abs/1711.07421
I just found your channel and absolutely love your content. You break things down in such easy to understand ways (well, relatively easy lol). The effort you put into your on screen graphics/demonstrations though is what really shines for me.
Shut up!!
YOOOOO RESPECT! this projeckt really earned the name ! even tho i am german i almost understood everything !!! but there is one tiny problem, its a bit too fast to follow ;). the rest was very good ! Well done !
As a theory its only a raindrop in an ocean. Still got me excited though.
We divided the atoms, WE ARE CAPABLE OF EVERYTHING
*Elon Musk would like to know your location.*
In all seriousness, this video is amazingly done, regarding this subject
Elon Musk occupies all locations simultaneously . . .
It is! I was all ready to poo poo on his parade. But he presents facts exactly as they are, and all with no James Earl Jones voice-over (yes, the preferred spelling really is 'voice-over', not voice over or voiceover) talking about the 'wonders of science in a universe strange beyond belief'. If I had heard that, I would have punched my monitor.
We're just too damn insignificant for anyone or anything to even care, including aliens.
@Eric Miret he downloaded his conciousness into the net. he is Skynet! I 🤣🤣🤣
There are 15,953 days left to meet the Star Trek Warp Drive date; keep the faith!
So 40+ years then?
And around 11 000 years to discover a WH40k warp drive.
@@Sereze001 dont you mean 38 000 years? shouldnt have skipped math classes
@@pierreo33 no, I mean Warhammer as in Universe.
Warp drive was originally discovered sometime during M13.
15,951
I recommend the book "The StarTrek Physics" by german physicist Metin Tolan. Every chapter has two parts. The "Tribble-Part" is written with easy explanations and the "Vulcan-Part" with detailed analisises.
See I love learning about this because it gives me hope for the future I may be a kid by space fascinates btw this really helps me understand the warp engine so now I’m trying to make my one assumption of a simpler version that helps us make this
I'm a new subscriber. I love your videos!
Welcome my friend!!
Mr. Ash ,
Surely you realize that "negative-energy" is about as real a concept as "negative-gravity" , so how's about examining "warp-drive" in relation to "effective neg.-energy" ? This is after all , how current gravity-defying mechanisms work , and they don't require ungodly amounts of power to function , either .
Tricking nature by finding work-arounds of her laws and limitations , is what our technology is based upon . Figuring out new technologies is just a matter of finding the "levers-of-control" .
*To study examples of this , read my post at : quora.com/Is-a-reactionless-drive-possible/
Me too.... Wonderful channel, sincerely!!
@cmon Bill really for starters stop watching anime nonsense and I'll say you are 50% like him
Beautifully explained with simplest way keeping complex mathematics aside.. Keep it up..
I suck at math,... But it does serve its purpose when you need calculations Boss.
I'm not shitting on your comment boss.
The energy required would probably just kill everything instead of powering the drive. Imagine trying to control the energy of 1000 hydrogen bombs. Nothing can hold that
Flat-earthers: this is nonsense
Also flat-earthers: can’t explain flat earth
Also flat earthers when someone destroys their ideas with empirical evidence: It is doctored and CGI.
3:51 I have a question please answer if you can. On the side of the spaceship with a high mass would someone observing a person on that side see the person age slower? (due to the change in space also affecting time). And on the side of the spaceship with negative energy would an far away observer see the person standing there as aging faster?
If NASA ever approves. I am willing to scarifice myself as a test subject as long as I get to be in the ship.
The bad news is that no one will be allowed to call you Jean-Luc..
Watch Event Horizon, it might change your mind...
Can I come too?
We'll have warp drive by 2063. Star Trek says so :)
BF31 Zefram Cochrane should already be born
BF31 and we Need a ww3 then.
So be it
Well, we would have been in space, if we had continued to go to space, but most of humanity is like nah, we care only about what is down here.
I will be 58 lol
The most thought challenging video I’ve seen in a long long time. However I was always told you can’t create energy, just move it from one place to another. So surely negative energy is just the residue of positive energy 🤷🏼♂️.
Newtons third law: That's how I can't believe that there isn't exactly 50% negative energy since it would have to equal the amount of positive energy for it to balance.
Dear Arvin, tremendous video, very informative, loved it. Although Star Trek is a show and most people believe it is all fiction, there are many theories that became possible 200 to 300 years in the future, warp drives is one of them. My comment comes from curiosity of course and the fact that I'm designing a jet fighter for a video game but I'm stuck on the propulsion for it. Warp drive was my first choice but an experiment done I believe in 1972 in Germany where they tried to demonstrate how UFO moved around space (for the believers) where they created a saucer like ship in small scale, in the back of it they developed a device that can create empty space behind and the space behind that will push you forward at phenomenal speed. A tube around 30 yards or so (can't remember exactly) was build to fit the UFO and positioned at one end, they started and it worked, not sure why I haven't heard of it again. Is that the same thing as Warp Drive? Warp uses space in front and behind, the experiment only in the back.
Sorry for the long message, just very, very and very curious. Subscribed :).
If you took some entangled photons of frequency f, blue shifted one photon to f + delta f, and redshifted the other photon to f - delta f, you might be able to store some gravitational potential energy between the entangled photons. You wouldn't need negative energy to create an Alcubierre field. You could create the field by continually generating entangled photons and centrifuging them.
Source? I’d like to read more on the subject. (Sorry, ik it’s been 2 years)
So you could only travel a fast as a photon.
If you can accelerate photons in a centrifuge you aren't dealing with photons anymore.
Lawrence Krauss explains that the net energy of the universe is zero, and that we can get a universe from nothing. Our universe is a bubble of negative energy (or at least zero) relative to whatever is outside our universe. The cassimer effect made that pop into my mind. Could it be that we are existing "between the plates" so to speak.. And rather than our universe collapsing like the plates, our negative energy allows it to sustain and expand.
Thinking out loud.
Question: What happens to the objects outside of the warp field where the ship is moving? My understanding of Warp Drive was that space was considered to be "a wave" and that by warping, you leave normal space and jump from the tip of one portion of normal space to the next, going in a straight line between the two points and thereby bypassing 'normal space'. The higher the warp speed number indicates the number of 'tips' you bypass, ie: Warp 2 means you skip the next wave tip and move directly to the next, etc.
From what you describe here, it sounds more like the warp drive is creating a tsunami effect in space and then riding that 'wave' to move through normal space. Like any tsunami, I am curious to know what would happen to any objects unfortunate enough to be caught in the wake of a ship passing by using this type of propulsion method. Thanks!
Thank you for an interesting introduction to this complex idea. Two questions come to mind: How is this expanded/contracted shape in space actually set in motion and then accelerated beyond the speed of light? You explain well how the expanded portion is created, what about the contracted portion? Where does the positive energy to create the contracted warp come from?
Well, you hit the main issue on the head. You could set thing thing in motion, but there is no way to accelerate it beyond the speed of light, so it would have to travel as sub luminal speeds, which of course, defeats the idea.
I’ve been searching for years a video talking about the Alcubierre drive. Thank you
Thank you for liking this comment! I have already said this on another comment, on another video of yours, (which I still can’t believe you’ve answered to,) but I will say it here, once again: I only know about this channel since yesterday, but I’m already subscribed and waiting for your next video. I think this is the best science/physics-related one, and its already my favorite. Thank you very much!
Have a nice day/good night :)
It doesn't add up son, you 'where looking for years about a Alcubierre explanation video🤔'.. How?? You are just a little Jewish boy who is a couple of years old?! Are you the next generation super jew with the intelligence and knowhow about constructing and working out the theoretical explanation of this Alcubierre propulsion?? Because if you do, I'm gonna be ur biggest fan👀
This was covered on CZcams videos ranging from 3 years ago (in a less graphical way) by DNews, 2 years ago by AsteronX, 9 months ago by Joe Scott, ...... while a decent video, this video brings nothing new to the party. To search, you actually have to type the search in and press the enter-key. ;)
San Silvius i did find a few, but not with good explosions as in this one. Its not that the other ones are hard to understand, but this one really helped me get a better idea of how it works
wake up its my son in this picture...
Amazing video! So much of science and mathematics crumbled down to simplicity. Appreciate the efforts you've put behind this.
This is a great review and application of Alcubierre’s work. The concept of negative energy expanding space time is a great concept. Being able to alternate the shape of the space bubble is important.
Oh wow that's actually really interesting and it even sort of fits with the Star Trek universe's already established rules about warp drive. Not gonna ask what they mean by subspace though.
Thank you Mexico for coming up with this design. Love from Algeria!
Mexico's scientific community hounded Alcubierre for his paper and because of his still being a student. They weren't supportive at all.
Enterprise goes 9,000 times lightspeed
Einstein: hey wait a minute! That's illegal!
eterprise: goes 9000 X the speed of light
einstein: excuse me sir, do you know how fast you were going? you have violated code number 342 of galactic order
Dont forget that the millenium falcon goes 9,000,000 times the speed of light
Heart of gold goes infinite speed
Enterprise; no it isnt, theres a loophole in your theory.
This is how people in the future lost their flying license
That background music can make anything sound futuristic and achievable
Hypothetically, could you produce the positive energy needed to contract the space in front by creating an energy deficit in the back, which would create both the negative and positive energy from nothing?
Simply amazing and entertaining. Why didn’t CZcams recommendations show me this channel earlier?! You’ve gained another sub today. My best wishes go to you Arvin!
This was an excellent breakdown of something super complicated, thanks for sharing!
The best part of your videos is the Math. Thank you very much!
It's 2021 now. Bobrick and Martire just published an article at Classical and Quantum Gravity showing a warp drive model that doesn't require negative energy to work!
Where can I find this article?
It's amazing how something you once couldn't even conceive can be explain by someone with just words. As none scientist, I think I understand it now. Thank you.
Imagine the insurance claim when a ship hits a rogue planet doing 9K light speed? That won't polish out
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The ship isn't moving 9000x the speed of light. In fact it isn't moving at all. Space is moving around it.
If this ever becomes a reality, one could assume the planet would be moved out of the way, or space distorted enough to prevent a collision.
@@lucifer6966 It was meant as a joke. You'll get wrinkles from taking life too seriously
@@celtisafricana4984 No you made a mistake and are covering for it by pretending it was a joke. If you actually understood it you wouldn't make a joke like that.
@@cadkls I agree with you , many dumbasses on CZcams trying to be funny making "jokes" that make no sense
Multiple questions. graphis indicate that spacial warp is proportional to the gravitation of the mass. Does that mean that space and gravity are linked link electricity and magnetism?
What about the compressive force of EM radiation against the ship or it's warp field? The faster you go, the density of EM waves of all frequencies increases, eventually becoming a constant resistance at that frequency. At some point, the resistive force = forward motion. If a surfer on a board runs into a resistance (seaweed, animal life, etc.), the restive force slows the surfer and the wave rolls right over the surfer.
Hey how would building a accelerater around the equator of the moon powered by solar or it's own nuclear plant,be plausible,or is it plausible to build something like that and if we did not having the power constraints of power and gravity along with the vaccume of space,make better results?
"Gives them the ability to fold space…that is, travel to any part of the universe without moving.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965.
Alcubierre didn't invent this notion ...
Great novel! And I'm one of the few that also liked the movie, lol.
That two different technologi
Alcubiere is make wringkel the space to make it go faster
While Frank just fold space , that worm hole
Alcubiere ttheory still need time cos it travel
That sounds more like a space fold or artificial wormhole.
But the notion of warp drive originated around the same time from Gene Roddenberry.
@Dwight Charles Neither was Frank Herbert. He and Roddenberry were just dreamers coming up with fanciful notions of the future.
But Einstein didn't come up with the idea of warp drive, it just happens to fit his theory of relativity.
Event Horizon "(o.o)"!! Just don't open dangerous universe.
Excellent video. I already knew most of the stuff within but you gained a subscriber! Well done sir!
Great explainations. You've totally reawakened my interest in quantum theory, gravity, the subatomic world - thank you!
I think there are breakthroughs that need to occur in particle physics:
- While undetected as of yet Neg mass particles could still exist if our universe is in fact a collision of two areas of space-time. Because in one universe the 'mass' may be opposite the other. Which would effectively permit neg mass particles to exist, as well as neg energy. The implications of this would be profound and could account for entropy being king, and many other issues.
- Folding space may be an issue but there are two undetected though theorized particles (or families of): cronitons and gravitons (presumably with their anti- counterparts). Space wouldn't need to be manipulated if you can more easily manipulate time or gravity.
For Gravity: you just use it a la Deflector dish, deflect all particles ahead and condense them on your sides or behind you.
Time is a bit different: In near future when we surpass senescence and reach a organic-synthetic level of existence time won't mean as much. But depending on how TIME and the particles it derives interact with 4 known forces there could be a variety of approaches that wouldn't violate the big issues like thermodynamics, pauli-exclusion/uncertainty principles, etc.
Famous story of Prof. Stephen Hawkins. The time he made a cameo on Star Trek they gave him a tour around the set. When he entered the Engineering Section and showed him the warp drive, he told the crew, "I'm working on that."
Reference: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Hawking_(actor)
*Looks like we took a wrong turn at alcubierre*
Ouch! Good one, tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque
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This is where that joke (pre-Bugs Bunny) comes from: Because of a change in alignment of Route 66 in 1937, there is an intersection where Route 66 crosses itself at Central Avenue and 4thStreet in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Here, you can stand on the corner of Route 66 and Route 66. www.legendsofamerica.com/66-facts/
But it would take substantial power to make space warp back onto itself.
It’s another one of those theoretical things, like traveling at the speed of light to time travel (more than the infinitesimally small time travel that we can do now), that will likely never happen.
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Thank you