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Miguel Alcubierre Moya (born March 28, 1964 in Mexico City) is a Mexican theoretical physicist.[1] Alcubierre is known for the proposed Alcubierre drive, a speculative warp drive by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel.

4:57 I understand from this statement that if we research into it, we can make Warp Drive Grenades

You say a millennium I say about 100 years if technology advancement continues at it's exponential rate.

People thought airplanes were impossible, so was going to the moon. The more we study the more we find that anything can be possible given enough time. I wish we all cared for science instead of killing each other over nonsense.

Ask Zefram Chochrane!

4:54 imagine going to the north star and when u arrive you can't find it because its destroyed

I love these videos - they help me engage and ignite curiosity in my high school physics students, and that my friends, is priceless!

That's what the deflector dish on the enterprise was for, to deflect space dust

They slinky demonstration was super creative. Haven’t seen anyone else do the same.

nice and clear explanation !

Finally! A video on the Albuierre drive I can fully understand.

great video, very easy to understand for someone not as MIT smart as others.

Ha, I love you guys, would love to study at MIT! I also love how someone talks about blasting things into oblivion in a paper.

Kudos! This is one of the single best explanations of the A-Drive I've seen. The slinky was particularly useful, too.

I love your video. Good visual quality, well researched and easily explained, funny and intelligently designed.

Great explanation. Like Vsauce or MinutePhysics, but easy to understand.

Great Video Issac!

(1) building a warp drive is very difficult but building a controllable warp drive is equally difficult. (2)chunKs of negative mass or exotic matter may not be seen easily because normal matter would not allow it to exist. It may be there in Bootes void or other such voids,pushed by the normal matter there.

I've often wondered how that works. Thanks for posting.

Have you guys taken a look at what David Pares is up to, from the University of Omaha? It looks like he's working on the same concept, but using a different energy approach. I'd be interested to see the two of you come together for a discussion. Could be very educational. Thanks!

Great explanation and analogy!

The unknown is such a beautiful thing.

Great video, easy to understand - Loved the slinky part.

I will say this... A warp gate, or magnetic sling shot with an achor would move you a lot faster than trying to find gripping points to warp, as you would bend a lot of space in your method. A magnetic warp gate would be a magnetic sling shot, having a magnetic catch at the other end. The warp drive, in my mind, would be what grips with the magnetic warp gate. Through compounding measurements, meaning, lengths compounding with an energy-efficient magnetic charge, you can in theory travel faster than light. Mind the G forces you'd experience. But yeah, magnetic warp gate, and that's what I have to go to. Hope this enlightened you. As I feel the 'negative space' is a hoax. Magnetic warp gate. With a warp core as the gripper. Feels easier than trying to warp all of space huh? I think so. Thanks for trying! -JDB

Of all the videos I've watched on this subject, your slinky metaphor was the ONLY one that made sense to me lol.

Great explaining ! Thanks

well we have negative mass now!!! created, 10/04/17 (april) and proven 17/04/17 at Washington state university

But..... This was AMAZING..... I understood everyything here.... You are super amazing brooooooo.....

Change the warp sphere to a warp torus, you'll drop the Jupiter size energy down to that of a pickup truck. And solve the energy accumulation problem. Harold White's idea not mine.

Now that a warp bubble has been created it would be nice to see an update to this.

very nicely explained

The energy buildup on the outside of the bubble seems somewhat easy to overcome. Since space is relatively empty, you would have to make discrete "jumps", the maximum distance of which would be determined by the average particle/energy density of a given course. The maximum distance over which a jump could occur would correspond to whatever the maximum allowable energy discharge was determined to be. Maybe the ship could monitor this buildup from inside the bubble and just disengage whenever it reached critical levels. If the energy is projected outward as shown in your animation, then you could plot courses that made massive leaps into relatively empty space, and then smaller jumps when navigating through 'populated' regions. If the energy bursts are omnidirectional, then obviously the structural integrity of the ship or radiation shielding capabilities would be the driver. If it really requires the mass of Jupiter to operate and there's just no way around that, unfortunately I think the technology will never come to pass.

This reminds me of that time someone played Planar Bridge in MtG.

Awesome video dude

From what I have heard recently Harold White, after peer review to confirm, while working on a related experiment, created a very small warp bubble

Why do the more recent videos have comments disabled ???

Dude you explained it well.

1:00 So it's like Okuyasu owning a galactically huge The Hand?

This is fascinating

-m effects are currently being studied not only theoretically, but experimentally, and the theoretical end has vastly optimized the energy required to generate those effects. Furthermore, a properly engineered Alcubierre(-White) drive would probably have much more minute, culminating warp-effects than the 'brute-force' warp tensor with two gradients (which also means it could probably be fine-tuned enough to move through space in any direction at any speed and zero changes in actual velocity, imagine the erratic way UFOs move.). It's like comparing the most basic doodle of a rocket to the functional real life equivalent, or concentric circles to the complexity of a wi-fi signal.

Watching science fiction from my childhood become a science fact has been amusing. Lasers that are hand held and able to burn or melt stuff. Tricorder like communication devices. Tiny chips that store information. AI and cybernetics. Ability to clone and genetic modify things... just to name a few 😁🤓❤

I have a more basic possibility for medium to slow space travel in "jumps" you have your ship and in the back near the engine you have a spring chamber: these springs are compacted so that they return more energy than you put into them. So, you have like a metal ball and you push it into one of the springs in this chamber it pushes the ball back into the other spring and vice versa building up potential energy each time until you release it out the back of the ship and push yourself forwards very fast.

I feel smarter after watching this video. I actually learned a few this.

Would you run into all of the space debris out there doing a space warp?

Thumbs up for the slinky analogy....Feynman would be proud!

Fascinating

The plate experiment is not negative mass. It's less than the ZPE, but still a positive number.

Love the video, bit disappointed I won't be going to visit the Andromeda Galaxy anytime soon sad!

NASA better take the first warp jump by April 5th, 2063. I'll be almost 61 by then

01:38 - stated as fact, but this is actually a theory. Thank you for the excellent explanation of warp drive.

Have you seen the film, "Event Horizon" , that looks pretty similar to the "Gravity Drive" that DIDN'T work out to well

Thanks alot, now i know how nasa would warp travel i was so confused before

Yeah, 1966 communicators, 2022 iPhones. I’m ready for Warp Drive now.

When I was by invite only to an engineering conference of MIT along the Charles River and along Vassar Street of Cambridge, we discussed such a topic with Dr. Scott Chubb, Dr. Peter Hagelstein, Dr. Brian Ahern, and Dr. Mitchell Swartz. Hyperdrives comprised of Neutron flux upon aperiodic quasicrystals for Weekend two instantaneous trips between galaxies are more realistic since 10^19 Gev would exceed CERN while altering gravity claims always remain questionable to remember how only Japanese anime described implications of warp drive.

What if you took out the Higgs bozon in each of the atomic structures of the metal plates. Using some sort of 3D printing. Crazy future tech

By the way, you don't need both expansion and contraction to get to your destination. You only need one: either contract space and have the destination come to you or expand space and have you go to it. If negative energy is so hard to achieve, then focus on positive energy to get to your destination.

I am concerned to hear about ongoing research into warp drives while not concurrently hearing about research into Gellar Field generators. You do NOT want to do a warp jump unshielded guys.

Mass is not energy, it is structure. Energy is movement, or relative movement, the opposite of structure.

5:00 "all that high energy space stuff would basically blast every living thing in your destination into oblivion"... some high command general watching this video: hummmmm... 👀

You know, negative mass is sounds like 2 same magnet that force to unite. But instead unite they are seperate with enough push power

So is this basically mean the universe itself is a warp bubble?

think of how far we have come now already in the short time we've found technology we just don't have the instruments to show us the kind of energies and stuff we need to go at warp speeds. it will happen trust me and a lot quicker than most people think

Very interesting. I always thought warp technology worked by "folding" two points in space together. Lile drawing two points on a piece of paper and then folding it so the dot are on top of on another. Also, the video never mentioned where the energy to power such a trip would come from....

here is a solution to the issue of accumulated space debris.. undulating tear shaped warp field, designed to "push" debris out and around the outer edge of the warp bubble.

Negative Energy Generator By James AraSmith “In the late 1800s, Max Planck studied the effects of radiation (electromagnetic waves). In the following years, Albert Einstein extended the work to “quantize” radiation, eventually becoming the quantum energy equation for light and for all frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum (e.g. radio waves, microwaves, x-rays, etc).”(energywavetheory.com) Because an electron is a wave, thus having a frequency, Planck’s relation, E=vh, applies. Because said electron has mass, E= MC^2 applies. Because both are equations representing the energy of the electron, E=E or vh=MC^2 E=MC^2 E= vh (only variables are E and v) h= plank’s constant V= frequency E/C^2=M (vh)/C^2=M (only variables are E and v) (-vh)/C^2=-M -E=-vh Scientists say that negative energy and negative mass MUST exist. If negative energy MUST exist, negative frequency MUST exist. IF I understand my references, negative frequency is 1/-t. T= time. A generated wave contains both a positive and negative frequency. A causal filter will block the positive frequency but will not block the negative frequency. -T is greater than or equal to C T is less than or equal to C The electron and the negative electron The mass of an electron is 9.1*10^-31 9.1*10^-31= (vh)/C^2 Solve for v. V= 1.23432*10^20 Hz or 123.432 EHz Because an electron has mass, it moves slower than C. Now change v to a negative and rework the equation. (-1.23432*h)/C^2 = -(9.1*10^-31) Because the negative electron has negative mass and negative frequency, it moves faster than C. The Higgs field The Higgs field is responsible for giving an electron its mass. It is done through a weak hyper charge. It is unclear to me if the frequency itself gives the electron its hyper charge. The generator X-ray, electromagnetic radiation of extremely short wavelength and high frequency, with wavelengths ranging from about 10−8 to 10−12 metre and corresponding frequencies from about 10^16 to 10^20 hertz (Hz). If I understand things correctly, a causal filter could block out the positive x-ray frequency, leaving only the negative. If the 123.432EHz target frequency does produce a weak hyper charge on its own, then it reacts with the Higgs field instantly. Therefore, the wave would not be traveling at C and would not produce a negative frequency. Because of this, the frequency would need to be oscillated in and out of the target frequency. Each time the wave oscillated into the frequency, the wave would split into an electron traveling slower than C (which would then be filtered out), and a negative electron traveling faster than C. If the 123.432EHz target frequency doesn’t produce a weak hyper charge on its own, then a weak hyper charge would need to be added to and subtracted from the frequency to get the same effect. It is not clear to me how this would be done. References: - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7aHmpBh0JjTm6c.html - Jonathan Prout facebook.com/groups/isaacarthur/permalink/2486492631653931/ - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%E2%80%93Einstein_relation - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNugl8Ri19OUYY0.html - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/na5xlNKFstjHY3U.html - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9mGqKZ22J69lKM.html - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z792payEy7SbmqM.html - www.britannica.com/science/X-ray#:~:text=X-ray%2C%20electromagnetic%20radiation%20of%20extremely%20short%20wavelength%20and,to%20other%20electromagnetic%20radiation%20within%20the%20electromagnetic%20spectrum. - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5poaa55l9rDdZc.html - energywavetheory.com/equations/ehf/ - www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/louise-de-broglies-hyothesis-is-an-electron-a-particle-or-a-wave.html#:~:text=In%20short%2C%20in%20conjunction%2C%20the%20electron%20is%20both,became%20central%20to%20the%20plots%20of%20science%20fiction.

ok but I think the reason so many people cant comprehend warp is because its been over complicated - I think Nasa realised what can be achived with a y shaped antenna witha coil at the middle producing a solid state warp drive with the dipole end being negating and the base of the y shape positive; resulting in the movement; this is the simple beginings aof a warp drive... Now imagine a circular antenna with c shaped antennas around the coil - what owuld happen is a fourier wave with em waves moving in the direction the c shaped antennas are facing and in turn movement in either the direction of the fourier wave or opposite direction of the forier wave; meaning em space have been channelle dina direction; essentially a methodology of hyper space which would infer fasterer moevment... This c shape around a ring idea, is alsoe a wave to float possible without use of anti-matter; unless you percieve anti-matter as a wave in place of matter; essensially a magnet produced warp fields that are reduced by the evironment; so if in a true void a magnet fields would propergate forever with no diminishing lines... This is why I think the USA with they advanced knowledge of Earths core - are sitting on something like advance technology along with Russians and British maybe - as well as possiby Japan and new comers China again maybe? So those rign antenna ship will move if an antenns is at 90degrees producing a fourier wave like effect...and if you add in magnetrons you can produce waves at the speeds of an electron moves around a ring..so in essense a small disortion in a direction acts like pull or pushing space in a direction...

All you need is a cup of tea. It produces enough chaos for the infinite improbability drive

The problem is it not really expanding or shrinking space its pushing space behind us and ultimately we would move faster then light, the problem it find something to push against like a magnet gliding away from the opposite end.

We need a navigational deflector. To stop the buildup of small particles and stop them from drilling through the ship at high speed.

yeah they say you need a em convection - and and this is done by antennas - the ring warp drives are Antennas... So one simple easily understood approach is a basic magnet flier where the em bubble expands and contract em waves....and by using additional configurations the so poles are warps and the north pole now has something to be attracted to - and this is at the speed of light but slowed somewhat due to the mass of the magnet - but thats whether other antennas creates wave form collisions and add an additional waves that act like the ideas of hyper spaces so these was move the ship faster.. the double right ship is just a em bubble inside another bubble- same principal as above...meaning this isnt rocket science literaly if true... Even if this is not the approach taken it will continue to involve a antenna to create a fourier wave dynamic...Personally I believe its already be done! For some reason people who may want to leave or access other technologies are being impeded from such access by person for some reason???Yes thats right I predict people are being impeded from leaving?

Awesome

If the Universe expanded at the speed of light it would not be 14 billion light years wide... It would be 28 billion light years wide. Nonetheless, great video!

All that energy around the warp field could be directed into coils, something along the lines of a plasma reactor could be used to store said energy.

My brain exploded at about 4 minutes....I'll try to watch it again..in a few billion trizzillion years...

Sorry for this question I don’t really understand.If you expand space behind you then you move earth then it would be effected by time dialation

At the least it could be used to create high speed proton beam for super-luminal communication arrays between stars. Got to get the gear to target star first though.

Would it cause time dilation .plz ans

What I want to know is? What is the maximum warp a ship can travel. In star trek they say warp 10 as then you would be travelling at infinite speed. Yet another show I watched they were in a ship travelling at warp 12. According to the laws of physics is there a maximum speed

So say that the bubble does collect dust and things; wouldn't an easy solution be to collect the debris that would hit the ships bubble with another warp bubble (or bubbles) ahead of it, so when the ship returns to regular space-time, the bubbles in front would keep going and carry the explosions away?

Just exactly how can space expand and contract. And how can you measure the expansion and contraction?

Trekkies clicking onto video: *The excitement of my heart is beating faster than Warp 10* Trekkies at the end of the video: *sad noises*

If you travel at the speed of light the journey to any point is instantaneous. It's not 400 years to the North star

I wonder if all the high-energy particles and resultant plasma collecting on the leading edge of the warp bubble could be used as fuel for the warp drive itself.

4:51 That sounds an awful lot like an Exterminatus Cyclonic torpedoe

Well...that’s one way to crash an intergalactic party.

Sir can i use your video cllip for my video?

I think we might achieve this in the next 500 years or so

I don't get it. So what will happen when you are near your destination? In terms of space you still have the same amount of space ahead of you, only very condensed. what happens when you turn off the warp drive? you bounce back to the beginning? or is there a way you can jump off 'stretched' space in to 'regular' space just before the slinky is being released again? :)

I love this😍

I have know idea why or how I came up with this idea to create warp fields (and gravity) but I have had it as long as I can remember. It involves spinning electric charges in opposition but with many many different circles. If I take a charge and spin it I one direction but at the leading edge you are spinning an ecltromagnetic charge in the opposite direction and on the edge of that circle you are spinning another charge in opposition and so on ..you would create enough ecltromagnetic fluxes that u would in effect warp space without needing an unrealistic amount of mass or energy...or maybe I'm just stupid

Nice. Question: When the warp drive is turned off, how far would you have gone? Would you not just have travelled the same distance you normally would - without the warp drive? I originally thought that you would be surfing on the compressed bow-wave to push through space faster - stretching the space-time that the ship travelled in rather than in the stable bubble within.

The galaxies have been drifting/expanding away from each other and not the fabric of space.

That's why Star Trek has navigational shields. That brings up navigating at warp, make sure you leave bread crumbs behind you or you would never find your way back home.....

Do one on the flying tic tacs.

Sounds a LOT like a star wars hyperdrive. Just reduce the explosion to a loud sound

The slinky example is flawed, the ship would move at subluminal speeds in its frame reference and superluminal in Earth's frame reference, which still doesn't mean it reaches the other star any faster. Am I right?

So what would the warp Drive actually be Bending what properties does space have

I've alway heard Warp drives explained as acting in the exact opposite way. The drive contracts or condenses space behind the ship. Then space, wanting to expand back to where it was depleted, in a equilibrium like manner, propels the ship forward FTL, because space itself can expand FTL. Is this the difference between an Alcubierri drive and fictional warp drives? Thanks

Very very amazing 😍😍😍😍