What would you think if I told you that war propulsion is no longer pure science fiction can you imagine that we will soon have spaceships traveling at the speed of light or even faster scientists have even discovered a completely new way to travel 10 times faster than the speed of light you'll be amazed at the Fantastic changes this will bring in the future faster than sound faster than Light Concord the supersonic passenger plane that took just 3.5 hours to fly from Paris to New York was a milestone in aircraft development Concord has long been history
today only fighter jets fly at supersonic speeds we humans have long since reached the next threshold on our way into space we need spaceships that are faster than light otherwise the enormous distances in the cosmos cannot be bridged and we would need Millennia just to reach the next star system for a Long time physics did not seem to allow humans or anything else made of matter to travel as fast as light what was the reason for that well it's simple Einstein stated in his equations of general and special relativity that nothing in space can travel
faster than light matter can't travel even close to that speed because in that case equations of Dynamics and energy requirements no longer applied scientists truly had to think hard to Solve this puzzle now there may be a way to bend time and space to our will and create a spaceship that can travel faster than light if you love science fiction space movies you already know the warp drive from real life the spaceship accelerates for a moment then only a bright light can be seen and matter disappears in time and space to reappear at any place
in the cosmos enormous distances are covered in a very short time and travel to the farthest Reaches of the cosmos would be real although the concept was popularized as pure entertainment by authors such as John W Campbell and legendary Enterprise Creator Jee Roddenberry science picked up on the concept in the 1990s bypassing Einstein with a trick Einstein's theory of special relativity states that energy and mass are interchangeable and travel at the speed of light is impossible for material objects with a non-zero rest Mass this means that objects traveling at the speed of life require an
infinite amount of kinetic energy to reach that speed theoretically The Dilemma can be solved by folding or warping space around the object warp means to distort or to bend instead of creating thrust with energy the force is invested in distorting the space a kind of fold is created through which the spacecraft then slips with relatively little effort Einstein's theories which have become The scientific foundations of cosmology and phys physics were unaffected by this concept two problems remained generating the energy to fold space and Technical feasibility in 1994 Mexican physicist Miguel alubari solved the problem at
least at the theoretical level he used Einstein's theory of general relativity during his doctoral studies at the University of Wales to develop a framework within the limits of the laws of physics that would allow faster than Light travel on the Practical side relativity States that objects become heavier and heavier as they travel faster and faster it's logical the heavier these objects become the more difficult it becomes to maintain acceleration or even increase it to the point where a spacecraft reaches the speed of light only particles that have virtually no Mass can travel at these enormous
speeds photons are among them Miguel aluer developed a drive which was Named after him the principle is simple and easy to understand even for laymen a purely local expansion of the space-time Continuum behind the spacecraft and a contraction in front of it allows motion that is perceived as faster than light by observers outside the distorted region the occupants in the distortion on the other hand would perceive nothing or let's say not much perhaps they would perceive the famous tale of light see the stars whizzing by or notice a slight Vibration within a few moments a
warp spaceship could cover immense distance is truly as if in flight or otherwise said in faster than light flight the aluar drive is virtually capable of expending an enormous amount of energy to contract and twist the space-time Continuum in front of it creating a bubble that simultaneously fold space this bubble is a physical inertial system which is why the occupants would not feel any actual Acceleration however the rules of physics would be obeyed inside the bubble inside and outside everything would conform and nevertheless matter could move in this way faster than light through space only
not with thrust and speed as we know it from Cars airplanes or space probes but by an ingenious trick the universe offers unknown possibilities one mistake we humans like to make is to think of the universe as one space according to relativity However SpaceTime is a flat sheet that is distorted by any object with mass the space effect as we know it comes from the influence of mass and it is this Distortion of the space-time Continuum found at all corners of the universe that we experience as gravity yes even you are distorting SpaceTime a little
bit right now as you are sitting there in front of your computer or smartphone and you are causing gravity in this context of course the exciting question Arises whether a human being could also push through a Time fold by consciously Contracting the space in front of him and come out somewhere else in Space the theoretically this is possible practically however you would have to produce a whole quantity of force in order to distort the space by a multiple more then this happens only by your weight the aluar drive creates the bubble which is necessary to
evade the laws of physics in the outside inside With a propellant this is exactly where we still have a bit of a problem because whether we use diesel gasoline hydrogen or methane we currently can't muster the power in fact we would need energy equivalent to the mass of Jupiter to muster the energy with means known so far in the meantime however a solution has been found for this problem negative matter this exotic substance which has a negative mass or energy density in theory is supposed to be the Longs Sought answer however if we look a
little more exactly then we must find that here again a tiny little problem appears negative matter is not only hard to imagine but also undiscovered so far its exist is suspected but it is not proven so how to construct a drive with something that may not even exist and even if we could detect this form of matter the question is how could we collect or create enough of it to power a spaceship where there's a problem There's a solution researchers don't rest easy when it comes to warp drive because we need it there's no question
about it before we turn to the latest and most ingenious idea of a practically absolutely feasible warp drive let's take another look at where we humans stand technically right now hold on tight because now it could become painful for all who dream of faster than light travel our fastest Spaceships speed of light is a universal physical constant that is approximately 300,000 km/s the fictional Enterprise could carry its Heroes through space and to new adventures at maximum warp speed 9,000 times faster than the speed of light cently our space probes are the fastest spacecraft we have
probes are quite small and light nevertheless they also need an immense amount of thrust to reach destinations such as Jupiter Saturn or Venus the Juno probe which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 traveled through space at a top speed of 74 km/s which is just 0.2 times the speed of light Voyager 1 took nearly 35 years to leave the solar system and is now more than 21 billion kilm from Earth the fastest spacecraft ever built by humans is the Parker solar probe which reached up to 191 km/s near the sun with these numbers it's probably
already clear to you that we humans do Not make it very far with the Technologies in the cosmos for us even small distances are great challenges we could say in Cosmic scales that we can just put our foot in front of the front door probes that scientists send into space usually use sophisticated acceleration Maneuvers on the gravitational fields of planets to make any progress at all with a reasonable expenditure of energy some probes first orbit the earth twice then Venus or they Use Jupiter as an acceleration helper on seemingly endless orbits they slowly approach their
destinations in the solar system over the course of several years imagine your buddy from the Proxima centuri system invites you for coffee and you would have to fly dozens of circles around some planets with your spaceship to get out of the solar system at all and with the Technologies available to us probably nobody would arrive in time not even approximately Because as it is at present you would have to plan more than 100,000 years for a visit to the cosmic neighbor fact is in such a way we don't advance in the universe and if we
want to someday be a species which conquer space new technologies must come a real real I iable technology the developments in the area of the warp technology go constantly further Dr Eric lent of the University of gingan recently presented a Groundbreaking new approach to warp drive that bypasses the traditional problem of using negative matter and extremely large amounts of energy in his study Dr Lent describes how acceleration to the speed of light could be achieved using physical properties that already exist and can be implemented the key lies in the use of so-called solans colloquially known
as warp bubbles this method only requires already known positive energy densities Nevertheless this technology still needs quite a bit of research in terms of its technical practicality while people in Dresden were still thinking about this the next groundbreaking announcement came Dr Harold Sunny White a former NASA specialist has discovered a real warp bubble although Dr White was already researching the feasibility of a warp drive at Nasa he was actually working on something else entirely and that was the casir cavity which is observed between Two metal plates placed extremely close to each other within this cavity
exist tiny structures that are natural warp bubbles the defense Advanced research projects agency is currently funding further research in this area we basically just need to somehow mimic these small structures on a large scale and nicely and the first true warp drive and possibilities for Interstellar travel could be available if tons really are what scientists think they are they Could mean a revolutionary change in our understanding of matter and energy these particles are hypothetical particles that theoretically travel faster than light it was Albert Einstein who showed in his theory of relativity that nothing can actually
travel faster than light if these particles now prove otherwise they could be the passageway to a whole whole new dimension of the universe taking us Beyond relativity and its long held field equations they could even Solve The Riddle of Dark Matter once and for all and thus explain one of the greatest Mysteries of the universe what arachin compared to light did you know that Einstein came to the conclusion that nothing can be faster than light he realized that the speed of light is constant in a vacuum and remains independent of the motion of the Observer
this assumption led him to formulate the principle of Relativity which states that the laws of physics Are the same in all inertial frames of reference from these considerations he concluded that nothing can be faster than light as this would lead to contradictions in addition his energy Mass equivalence showed that Infinite Energy would be required to accelerate an object to the speed of light these findings have so far been confirmed by numerous experiments however we may now be entering new physical territory where Completely different laws apply tachin not only exceed the speed of light they theoretically
even have a limitless speed as they have no interaction with electromagnetic forces Takin comes from the Greek word Takis which means fast the catch with these particles is that they are potentially unmeasurable how could we measure something that presumably has no mass of its own and no speed that could be determined using conventional methods the particle Accelerator in Geneva shows us that such particles can exist here researchers have already found a number of indications of particles that neither assume a stable form nor are measurable in any way nor have a mass you would be amazed
if you knew how many such particles there are in the subatomic realm it even appears that this type of building block of matter is much more common than any fixed determinable quantity in terms of our reality this Means nothing less than that our material world is not as solid material and predictable as we thought Einstein didn't know everything Albert Einstein the great icon of astrophysics and astrom Mathematics put forward a famous theory of relativity around 100 years ago for a long time it was the extended basis of our Newtonian physics but just as Newton could
only describe part of Nature and the cosmos in his era Einstein also only recognized Part of it we can know longer avoid expanding these aspects of our Natural Science the evidence that our old theories cannot be entirely correct can be seen everywhere the James web Space Telescope is showing us rows and rows of discoveries that don't fit the old theories and even Hubble the old telescope has shown us galaxies so old that they challenge the framework of our old physics at the time it's no secret that the old calculations of researchers Have long shown some
serious weaknesses in particular our old formulas failed when it came to explaining the large scale structures of the universe radio telescopes have discovered such gigantic structures in the universe that they span clusters of galaxies and never fit into the picture of objects that Einstein calculated with our old approaches we were also unable to explain the expansion of the universe which is not linear everywhere and is Also accelerating slowly the clues are becoming abundantly clear and it's very very likely that the answer to the questions about the nature of our universe can be found in the
world of the smallest particles where Barons tacons Quant quarks and many others can be found completely different conditions Prevail particle physics breaks previous principles and challenges our physics due to its unpredictability Tans possibility of Backwards time travel what have scientists currently discovered researcher Samuel Kramer and Ian redmount have found a possible explanation for the accelerated expansion of the universe in the data from type 1A supern noi and they have discovered even more Tans could in fact finally explain to us the true nature of the mysterious Dark Matter Dark Matter makes up a large part of
the universe and is one of the cornerstones of our Cosmology however it remains completely invisible and unmeasurable to us the magical thing about this type of matter is that it exists and has effects but it does not interact directly with light or electromagnetic forces exactly the same is true for Tans which make them ideal candidates for dark matter their superluminal speeds could explain why dark matter is so difficult to detect and how it influences gravity to shape the motion of galaxies and the structure Of the cosmos so far it's unclear whether tacun are really direct
building blocks of dark matter or whether they only exist within it so the question remains as to what exactly these particles could be apart from Dark Matter tachin could have unique energetic properties that would be able to generate a completely new type of energy that is also difficult for us to describe or explain by conventional means however with such energies we Could for example Master faster than light travel and possibly in the foreseeable future Beyond this tachin could mean profound changes for quantum physics and subsequently change our entire understanding of the nature of matter and
time if tachin actually exist and can transmit information faster than light they could lead to scenarios in which cause and effect are reversed challenging the principle of causality the principle of causality basically States that every effect has a cause and that it precedes it in time thereby establishing a certain sequence of events the mere existence of Tans would mean that information could be sent into the past open opening up intriguing if paradoxical possibilities and making the chain of causality suddenly appear illogical or elevating causality spatially and temporarily to multiple Dimensions simultaneously this idea would fit
in with another Discovery Researchers used a special research balloon at the South Pole to measure a mysterious stream of neutrinos coming directly from the Earth's interior one of the few plausible explanations for the stream is a dimension hidden in the Earth's interior in which time actually runs backwards soans are far more than just an exciting and speculative idea that could explain dark matter they have the potential to fundamentally overturn our understanding of Reality unstable states in the quantum field and what they mean for our reality imagine particles moving faster than light as they appear in
the quantum field there as crazy as they are and despite their instability they could interpret state that can transform the field in which they exist in a new more stable state it sounds paradoxical but this could be the key to a universal understanding of the field equations these particles are not just Mathematical Curiosities they could actually act as Catalyst for dramatic changes in the energetic state of a field imagine a field is in a metastable state and tachin could cause the field to fall to a lower energy State potentially allowing for new physical phenomena and
states in Quantum field Theory which describes the behavior of particles and Fields in the subatomic range tachin are absolutely logical as mathematical Solutions the idea of tachin even stems from the mathematical structure of quantum field Theory they showed physicists that their existence is almost absolutely necessary this is why researchers first came up with the idea that tachin could exist however these Solutions are not uncontroversial as they call into question the principle of special relativity but quantum physics does that anyway it is indisputably real but absolutely incompatible with Albert Einstein's physics although Einstein himself was the
first to discover a Quantum and even received the Nobel Prize for it he rejected quantum physics throughout his life due to its unpredictability one example of the role of tachin in Quantum field theory is their function as unstable States these unstable States also known as tachan condensation can occur when a field is trapped in a metastable state due to the presence of tachin this field can Transition to a more stable State through the principle of energetic minimum this transition is similar to Quant striving for a state with the lowest possible energy tachin serve as catalysts
for such transitions this would make them Elementary building blocks of our reality at a low energy level they could therefore be related to certain symmetries in physics symmetries are fun fundamental principles that describe the interplay of certain Physical quantities under certain transformations in this exciting context tachin could exist as particles that either preserve or break symmetry thus these particles would be basic structures of many if not all physical systems and could provide us with the key to symmetry Transformations and new insights into the structure of the universe one particularly fascinating aspect of these symmetry considerations
is super symmetry a theoretical Extension of the standard model of particle physics super symmetry postulates that every known particle has a super symmetric partner in this framework tachin could appear as super symmetric partners of ordinary particles and play a crucial role in certain symmetry breaking this symmetry breaking could reveal more and more new physical dimensions and phenomena that go far beyond our current theories in Quantum field Theory and particle physics Symmetry breaking is a mechanism that can give rise to new physical States if tachin are involved in such symmetry breaking they could fundamentally influence the
Dynamics and structure of fields and particles this would not only mean that tachin could explain how certain particle masses are generated they could also help to understand reality more comprehensively even manipulate it or create in our world what we previously thought was Completely impossible faster than life light spreads out in tiny waves and at Breakneck speed if you switch on a light bulb in your home the whole room is suddenly lit up the time from switching it on until it reaches the state of full illumination is something you consciously don't notice and you can't because
it's less than a fraction of a microsc light has some more interesting properties than just being fast we know Light as a mission of the stars in the universe the light is quasi created as a byproduct of the stellar Fusion processes quanta are also tiny particles of light and the building blocks of matter Quantum physicists suggest that light is one of the main carriers of information in the cosmos the fact that light is a quantity in the universe was determined by Albert Einstein scarcely 100 years ago he found out that light or its speed is
the only constant and not Relative force in the universe the speed of light moving through a vacuum is about 186,000 282 ft per second another Cosmic unit of measurement for light is the light year this indicates the distance that light can travel in the cosmos in one year this value is about 6.2 billion miles the Lightyear is a unit of measurement used by astronomers and physicists to measure and describe the vast distances in our universe if humans Wanted to travel to Mars they would need depending upon the position of Earth and Mars at the present
moment 5 months to 2 years if humans wanted to travel under the present circumstances to the end of the solar system they would be more than 100 years on the way the comparatively small Voyager probe needs 33 years for this journey to the nearest Alpha centuri star system 4.3 light years away a large spacecraft would need several thousand years if we Look at these distances realistically we must admit that we humans still have some work to do if we want to travel through space or even within our own solar system the dream of manspace travel
man space flight has been virtually non-existent since the lunar missions from the 1960s to 80s NASA sent humans to the moon at present humans stay in the cosmos in the space station ISS close to Earth but that's it so far We have not gone further than the moon and that was 40 years ago NASA and the new space p P SpaceX and blue origin would like to send humans into space again in the foreseeable future blue origin the space flight company of Amazon CEO Jeff basos and Elon Musk SpaceX are planning man flights to the
Moon SpaceX even wants to send the first scientists to Mars starting in the 2030s the big problem with these trips Remains the distances time and stresses placed On the human body during flights in space already astronauts are only allowed to stay on the ISS for 6 months otherwise they face problems such as muscle atrophy eye damage and an increased risk of cancer from high levels of cosmic radiation spacecraft traveling at close to the speed of light could reduce the travel time from Earth to Mars to a few minutes traveling in a warp bubble would largely
spare humans from cosmic rays and other harmful Effects of interstellar space flight before we get to the point where humans fly with super luminal speed s by manipulations of SpaceTime we'd need spaceships two or three times faster than the present ones an enormous leap in technology Elon Musk is the first man who wants to send humans to Mars the announcements of Mars missions and construction plans for a Mars colony have been known for Years yet recognized physicists and astronomers currently Still doubt that projects like these will be realistically feasible unless we have faster spaceships available
in 2019 noted us astrophysicist Neil degrass Tyson challenged the SpaceX and Tesla CEO via Twitter degrass Tyson urged the multi-billionaire to stop spending time and money on Cyber trucks hyper Loops or Mars Rockets rather musk should look into developing a warp drive musk countered at the time that his planned city on Mars will be the powerful Driving force to invent warp drive exactly what musk meant by that remains unanswered to this day no one currently knows what whether SpaceX is cooperating with International scientists and working on warp drive or not how realistic is the warp
drive up to now experts have argued whether and how the Legendary Drive we all know from Star Trek and other science fiction movies will be realizable as early as the early 1990s Physicists were testing the idea at first the prospects were Bleak but as early as 1994 a Mexican researcher presented a calculation According to which the Fantastic drive would actually be feasible as a quick reminder warp drive sends spaceships through space by compressing space in front of the spaceship and expanding it behind the vehicle this creates manipulation folds in the space-time fabric over which further
distances can be covered in the Blink of an eye in 1994 Miguel acubar became the first person to prove that propulsion did not violate Einstein's laws as previous believed the only problem with alub Berry's solution was the relatively large amount of energy needed to manipulate SpaceTime without gigantic reactors on board his spaceship would not have been able to get off the ground any faster than it did today but a solution was soon found to this problem as well in 2010 the US Researcher Dr Harold G Sunny White found a type of propulsion that requires no
fuel or energy at all and only so-called negative or exotic energy energy the new problem that arose was the fact that the existence of negative matter had not been proven in 2010 that changed in 20121 white was able to demonstrate the presence of small amounts of negative matter in the Kazmir effect so far this is not enough to power a spaceship weighing tons but the technology could Hold promise for the future this is far from the end of The Innovation surrounding warp drive and flying at the speed of light the EM Drive microwave drive before
the existence of negative matter could be proven researchers primarily set out to develop models of super fast motion that do not require energy the most promising concept came from a British scientist named Roger Shyer a former project manager for the Astrium space company he has developed a hypothetical microwave drive that could rival warp drive sher's em Drive theoretically works by trapping microwaves in a kind of copper cone and creating thrust by bouncing them off the EM Drive relies primarily on Newton's Second Law which defines Force as the rate of change of momentum the electromagnetic wave
propagating at the speed of light as a certain momentum which when transferred to a reflector Results in a tiny Force accumulated accordingly the tiny amount could become such a large force that the EM drive without any propellant at all might not be able to reach the speed of light but but it would be a significant Improvement NASA announced that tests with an engine based on em technology had been successful several times shortly afterwards a scientific group from China announced that it had also successfully tested this Engine tested in Dresden and found to be unsuitable critical
scientists did not readily believe the results of NASA and the Chinese ideas about microwaves generating thrusts sounded too unreal and some German physicists raised questions such as how these waves should be initiated how they should move and where they should get their momentum consequently they were put to the test the test took place at the Technical University of Dresden in Dresden they Came to quite different results and the researchers told NASA and their Chinese colleagues that something could not have been quite right with their test series because in dresen the EM Drive failed despite several
attempts since NASA did not comment further on these criticisms and no statement could be heard from China either all hopes have turned back to the warp drive after all once implemented it could solve almost all the problems of man space flight in one Fell Swoop in an artificially generated warp bubble it's not the spaceship that moves but the universe so to speak in the best case the occupants of a warped spacecraft would not notice much of their Interstellar Journey will Dr Eric lent bring us warped drive when Captain peard was jetting through space and time
on the Enterprise physicist Eric lent now 34 was still a young boy even then lent couldn't stop Wondering whether warp drive was realistically possible during the pandemic lent who had almost lost his job took another look at the alberry drive and Dr White's Improvement out of boredom looking for a solution to the energy problem due to a special circumstance in the geometry of space time lent found solutions for the drive that did not require the use of exotic or negative energy at all he discovered the solution in Einstein's field Equations thanks to these one can
calculate how certain matter and energy distributions distort space time like alub lens decompose space time into stacked layers for this purpose only the Practical astrophysicist lens searched for much more complex units than the theoretical physicist alubari and around them lens's draft provides for the use of a large quantity of energy for it consistently uses positive forces whose existence is already known confirmed and Available positive energy is a concept that goes back to the Swiss research group Applied Physics another group that presented the concept of a super fast propulsion without fuel although the model does not
go beyond the speed of light it could realistically Advance space travel enormously in just a few years you probably know that light is very fast it travels at an incredible speed of about 299,792,458 M/s and nothing we know of travels faster than light when the spaceship accelerates to high speeds the light coming from the stars is initially affected in a very special way the Stars would behave differently depending on whether your spaceship is traveling towards them or away from them the light from the Stars you are moving away from would be shifted towards the red
end of the light spectrum which is called a red shift this red shift occurs because the Spaceship is moving away from the Stars light Shifting the light into longer wavelengths and the corresponding red Hues the stars behind you would therefore become increasingly blurred and red the light of the Stars you are racing towards on the other hand would be shifted towards the blue color spectrum this happens because your spaceship is moving towards the light of the star which shifts the light to Shorter wavelengths In physics this is called the Doppler effect and in practice astronomers
use this effect to determine the speed and distance of stars and galaxies in the universe there are no stars let's move on to another exciting phenomenon of your space journey the Doppler effect is not quite right if you were sitting in your spaceship and looking outside you probably wouldn't see any stars at all and there's a simple reason for that all astronauts Who have been to the cosmos or the moon have reported that there are no stars in the universe we usually think that the Starry Sky in space should be much brighter and more beautiful
than here on Earth and then you are in the universe and the stars are gone there are two reasons for this effect in the weightlessness of space you are floating in a vacuum with no atmosphere or air to scatter the sunlight on Earth the atmosphere scatters the light from the Sun and stars making the sky appear blue during the day and dotted with stars at night but in space far away from Earth there is no such scattering of light this means that the light from the Stars reaches you directly from the stars without being scattered
this may sound great at first but there is a catch the light from the stars is very weak and if you are close to the Sun our sun would intensify this effect your eyes wouldn't Be able to see what little light there is and the sunlight is so bright that it outshines the faint staright scientists suspect that this effect would even occur when traveling between Star systems again it would be the vacuum of space that prevents the light from the stars from being scattered only when you get closer to the next star system and the
particle density increases would you see light again this is strange isn't it because we know from movies and Television depictions in which the universe is full of bright stars as seen from spaceships on your journey through space however you would encounter even more strange things that you certainly didn't expect you are young and everyone else has aged you may think that time is the same all over the world but that's not necessarily true according to Einstein's special theory of relativity time slows down when you move at a high speed this Means that if you take
a long journey through space at high speed time will pass more slowly in your spaceship than for people on Earth that really sounds like something out of a science fiction movie doesn't it assuming you fly through space at very high speed for 3 years and then return to Earth it would feel to you as if only 3 years had passed you would have aged 3 years in that time and you would remember the travel time of 3 years but here's the Fascinating part according to Einstein's laws more time has passed during your space travel so
you would come back to a world where friends and family have aged much more than you have and for these people much more has happened this phenomenon is called time dilation and it shows how strange and fascinating times can be in different situations in the universe time is a quantity of physics that still poses some Mysteries we do not know how it behaves in the Other parts of the universe and whether there are ways to circumvent or control it Timeless travel with the warp drive Einstein's laws have even more pitfalls because nothing can actually travel
faster than light no matter with a rest Mass can even come close to the speed of light whether we will ever be a able to travel at the speed of light is therefore questionable but we may be able to travel much faster and easier with a trick researchers have adopted The idea of warping space from science fiction literature the spaceship does not move through space but rather bends space and itself a little and then slips through a hole in the SpaceTime structure and you would be anywhere in the universe in a Flash sounds crazy but
we won't be able to manage Interstellar travel any other way because even the speed of light it would still take us more than 3 years to get to the next star system Alpha centuri so if we want To explore space we need faster than light speed or the warp trick what you would see on board a warp spaceship when it slips through folded SpaceTime is a mystery nobody can imagine it yet you would probably only see Darkness until the light of the targeted star system came into range what happens to the body we take a
short Journey back in time to the year 2150 unfortunately warp drive has not yet been achieved but thanks to the Revolutionary Technologies and the discovery of a new energy source material spaceships capable of reaching the speed of light have been developed the first crew to travel at the speed of light consisted of five astronauts who embarked on a mission to explore a distant solar system however they soon realized that this type of Journey had some effects on their bodies the journey began innocently enough as the spaceship accelerated to reach The speed of light the crew
felt as if they were sinking into a deep sleep even though they were awake this was a kind of side effect of the flight and the sleep was also intended to protect the crew from the psychological stress of the extreme speed once they reached the speed of light the physical effects began to show the astronauts noticed that their bodies were shrinking as if they were suddenly getting younger this was due to time dilation which we have Already looked at the gravit forces acting on the crew during the flight were also not without consequences with constant
acceleration the astronauts were pressed more and more onto the floor of their spaceship as their speed increased this led to muscular atrophy and bone loss as the journey progressed the astronauts found it difficult to tell the time as their clocks were running faster and faster compared to time on Earth they could not be sure how Long they had been traveling or how long they had been absent on Earth the crew became completely disoriented but luckily the spaceship was flying with automatic controls eventually the crew reached their destination a distant solar system and assuming these five
Brave space Travelers survived the ordeal they made some amazing scientific discoveries at their destination when they returned to Earth after another ordeal of faster than light space travel They realized that many decades had passed while only a few years had passed for them this clearly shows that the matter of the speed of light will very probably not work out with regard to our bodies either but what other options do we have for traveling through space when will we be able to teleport the idea that humans could use teleportation to travel through space is another fascinating
concept that often appears in science fiction there the Process is usually called beaming when matter is teleported it is disintegrated transported to another location and reassembled there however there are some major challeng Alles and physical laws that make such ideas difficult theoretically an object made of matter can be reduced to its information the evidence for this has already been provided by quantum mechanics based on the information the object could theoretically be reconstructed at a Different location however the greatest Challenge on a purely mathematical level is the exact replication of a human being or a spaceship
on an atomic level in order to recreate it in another location this requires an incredible amount of data and the ability to capture the entire complex structure of a human being and reconstruct it in another location of course there are still some aspects of biology that speak against this what happens to the matter The blood the organs and above all how is all this recreated at the destination we are reconstructing a UFO if we believe the many thousands of UFO sightings that have been reported in the last 100 years alone these flying objects have long
since transcended the laws of physics as we know them they move in a way that contradicts the laws of Newtonian physics Dynamics and acceleration Pilots report flying saucers that navigate in a crisscross And very quickly through space While others can allegedly take off almost vertically from the ground light speed fiction and reality iconic science fiction movies like the legendary Star Wars series show how it could work as soon as h solo Ventures into hyperspace with his Millennium Falcon and subsequently travels at a multiple of the speed of light the fictional character leaves millions of miles
behind him within the Blink of an eye and then arrives safely and unharmed at the desired destination now we know that pop cultural imaginations of this kind are not necessarily suitable for providing a scientifically sound picture of the actual conditions in space for example many of you are probably aware that the f fastpaced Space Battles on the big screen would in fact be accompanied by an oppressive silence and not by bombastic soundscapes in fact sound Cannot propagate in space as it does on our home planet since the yawning emptiness there simply means that sound lacks
the necessary physical guiding medium according to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity there is a fixed speed limit that cannot be exceeded the speed of light as the name of this unit of measurement indicates it's a value that refers to the speed that light rays reach in a vacuum specifically the speed of light amounts to an incredible 186,000 m/ second as a reminder a jumbo jet which actually seems to us to be an incomparably fast means of Transport reaches a maximum speed of just 0.15 m/s in astronomical research the speed of light is an important parameter
that experts use to determine the exact distances between objects in space it's a unit of measurement long established among experts scientists also use the distance that light can travel within a year the Corresponding distance is an incredible 5.9 trillion miles if the aforementioned jumbo jet were to attempt to bridge the corresponding distance it would need no less than 1.2 million years to do so the attempt to accelerate a solid object to the speed of light however turns out to be a practically impossible undertaking in fact only massless particles and electromagnetic radiation can travel at the
speed of light but why is that why we cannot travel at the speed Of light to answer this question we must draw upon relativity Theory again according to this Theory the mass of an object is always directly related to the speed at which it moves through space it doesn't matter at all whether it as a tiny elementary particle or a huge airplane since the mass of an object is always dependent on its speed this means in the reverse conclusion that mass becomes ever larger the more the speed of the object increases the energy Required to
accelerate an object is also directly related to the mass of the body the heavier a structure is the more energy must be used to increase its speed this constantly increasing energy requirement which would be necessary to accelerate a massive structure to the speed of light can simply not be guaranteed if a passenger airplane were to reach about 75% of the speed of light it would already possess 1.5 times its original Mass due to the law of physics At 99% of the speed it would already be seven times heavier than before the further one approaches the
targeted speed of light the more rapid would be the increase in the energy required to continue EX accelerating the object in other words this would mean that the corresponding energy demand would practically converge towards Infinity when reaching the speed of light thus it would formally take infinite energy to propel a physical entity at the speed of Light and providing the required energy on an infinite scale is simply impossible approaching the speed of light let us now assume that we at least succeeded in building a spaceship that reaches 90% of the speed of light this circumstance
would entail in theory some amazing concomitants according to this time for the person in the spaceship would pass perceptibly more slowly than for someone not traveling through space at the speed of light in this case the Person traveling at the speed of light would experience a period of 10 minutes while the corresponding value for a person not moving at that speed would be 20 minutes time would be shortened for the space traveler in this case by half in addition the field of vision for the astronaut would change drastically what he would see during his flight
would be a tunnel-shaped window in front of the cockpit of his spaceship in which the surrounding Stars would pass by in Glistening red and blue tones the reason for this is that the light waves of the celestial bodies in front of the astronaut would be optically compressed due to the intense speed of the spaceship this circumstance would make the object appear blue the light waves of those Stars spread out behind the spacecraft would present themselves in a red color due to the Doppler effect as soon as a certain speed limit was exceeded the light waves
would finally Lie outside the visible spectrum at which point nothing but a vast Blackness would present itself to the observer in addition to these breathtaking circumstances however the potential approach to the speed of light also entails some serious risks the faster we moved the more dangerous would be the small space particles that collided with the spacecraft during such a rapid maneuver these would quickly become threatening projectiles that could bring The theoretical flight to an abrupt end should it be possible one day to bring the speed of a projectile closer to the speed of light the
construction of special protective Shields would be indispensable further problems let's imagine that mankind actually succeeded in constructing a spaceship that would approach the speed of light to a fabulous 99.9% renowned space agencies might then strive to reach the world famous double Star system Alpha centuri as is known these celestial bodies are located in the constellation of the Centaur a good four light years away from our blue home planet with the speed of the spaceship approximating the speed of light it would thus take approximately 4 years before the astronauts reaching the goal point of their galactic
Journey a person moving over a period of 4 years at the approximate speed of light experiences a subjective span of just 14 days due to The associated time dilation in other words the fact that the faster an object moves in Space the slower time passes on Earth not 14 days but a full 4 years would pass provided that the means of communication of the future would allow it the exchange of information between the astronaut crew and the Earthly facilities would be subject to extreme delays in fact a message transmitted from alpha centor would also take
4 years before finally reach the Communication centers on Earth the future of propulsion Technologies while the example just presented is still a purely fictitious idea the question remains open as to how the propulsion Technologies of spaceships will develop in reality this is also the topic that physicist Philip Luben has been devoting himself to for several years together with his colleagues at the University of California the scientist is looking for New ways to rapidly accelerate future space projects the researchers believe that the key to this lies in photon propulsion the corresponding spacecraft should be propelled by
an incomparably powerful laser for practically the entire flight very light space probes could reach 25% of the speed of light with this technology the Cor responding speed would therefore be about 47,000 m/s by way of comparison New Horizons once left our planet at a speed of just About 10 m/ second however the larger the spacecraft the lower the maximum speed that could be generated with the help of photon propulsion nevertheless large man's ships would still have a remarkable speed of 621 m/s in the case of the previously mentioned star system Alpha centuri an unmanned space
probe would need about 20 years for its flight in fact the mode of operation of a laser propulsion system differs significantly from the systems Currently in use which rely on The Recoil principle the Rockets generate their thrust by burning fuel and emitting gases that accelerate the spacecraft a photon Drive meanwhile would involve several powerful lasers circling our home planet these would then be aligned with the corresponding spacecraft this spacecraft would be equipped with a gigantic sail which would reflect most of the incoming laser light the photons Would meanwhile transfer an Impulse to the sail construction
and thus accelerate it however it will probably be many years before this futuristic concept can actually be put into practice actually simple right the big question of this video whether time stops when reaching the speed of light can be explained with this simple sentence on the level of light there is no time at all for a light particle or in other words a photon which apparently Travels through space with the speed of light no time passes the impression of time arises only on the level of The Observers or in other words we humans that space
and time our illusions of the mind is a claim not only mystical schools make but also the great physicist Albert Einstein who came to the conclusion that the universe is not in truth what we think we see in all his observations time actually turned out to be be one of the strangest quantities That we know of even though we usually live with it in everyday life without giving it too much thought the relativity of time let's now take a closer look at these thesis when light has traveled one light second this second has passed only
in the perception of The Observers from the point of view of the photon no time passes basically the particle does not even cover a distance through space on light level the whole Space it crosses Is shrunk essentially to zero now the exciting question is whether we humans can also experience a standstill of time when we reach light speed in a vehicle like a spaceship theoretically yes but practically there are two hurdles here first we would have to achieve an acceleration of 186,000 m/ second if we were then traveling at the speed of light time would
also stand still for us in the spaceship compared to the surrounding Matter the fact that it does not come to a complete standstill is simply due to the fact that a spaceship and a human body can never completely reach the properties of light despite the speed of light forces like the rest mass of matter resistances Etc Remain the second problem is that it's currently impossible to accelerate matter to the speed of light without consuming an amount of energy that approaches Infinity in plain language this means Reaching the speed of light is not possible using classical
physical quantities and mechanical drives however this does not mean that humans will never travel at the speed of light or even faster scientists are currently researching ways to bend space time and use negative or exotic matter to achieve acceleration by manipulating forces does light really have a speed then at the photon level time stops from our point of view we cannot tell how a Photon experiences time or if it experiences anything at all Einstein found out about 100 years ago that the speed of light is the only constant and not relative quantity in space however
the behavior of light in its smallest particles is again anything but constant an important aspect of velocity measurement is also a relative and not a constant quantity time velocities indicate the distance that something in this case a light particle travels Within a certain time in a measurable space but also space could be not as linear as we imagine it on earth and the calcul ations of physicists must always start from an edge of space with respect to space we don't even know yet if these boundaries exist if you follow our videos often or subscribe to
our Channel you probably know that the latest findings of the James web Space Telescope have found that previous theories of distance measurement based On light shifts in space are currently under scrutiny either there were mistakes here or with the Big Bang Theory or there really are galaxies which should not exist at all on Earth experiments showed that light spreads with a certain speed however at present we know too little about the real nature and origin of the cosmos to know for sure if the observations on Earth also apply to every corner of space if light
has to pass through thin forms of matter It slows down minimally so we can't exclude that the speed of light behaves differently somewhere in space even if Einstein thought that the speed of light is an irre utable constant quantum physics and photons are nothing more than quanta prove that light is not constant in the microcosm of the small particles rather it seems to be physically neither at a certain place nor at a certain time this could support theories that the impression of motion Space and time exists only in our perception according to the latest findings
space could also be something like a gigantic holographic projection what exactly the connections between the level of light and the material world are researchers do not know at present just how crazily time behaves and why it stops when humans reach light speed we'll show you now the phenomenon of time dilation for the following thought Experiment we need a simple reference frame for time suppose a photon bounces between two horizontal mirrors since the speed of light is a universal constant the time that elapses between two bounces is always constant in this case one bounce is one
unit of time now we transfer the picture to an everyday scene we imagine a person who goes to his lunch break and drinks a coffee and eats a roll his break lasts 100 time units at the same time NASA astronauts Are happily testing a spacecraft that has already reached half the speed of light the man as well as the astronauts of NASA have a clock which corresponds to our Photon clock and thus the same length of time interval the astronauts do not have the feeling of moving on their flight they sit in their chairs and
only when they see the world passing by would they have a sense of movement from this point of view the man on his lunch break would race past the resting Astronauts at half the speed of light thereby he sits quietly at a table in the cafe from the point of view of Relativity physics and time it's impossible to say which of the two views is the correct one the time shift we are about to show you is real for the astronauts even if in reality the man is not moving at half the speed of light
the photon clock of the man in the cafe would also move with half the speed of light as seen from the spaceship by the Angle which then arises from the perspective of the spaceship and the speed the photon would cover a much longer way between the two bounce intervals so the time unit on the photon clock of the man is then further apart since the astronauts aboard the spaceship can only observe the events with their own Photon clock the time units would still match the initial image image the photon is moving up and down and
the amount of time it takes for This movement has remained the same since the speed of light is the same in each reference frame the distance the photon travels in both clocks is theoretically the same nevertheless the astronaut's clock ticks faster than that of the man in the cafe if the man finished his lunch break after 100 time units much more time units would have passed for the astronauts because the photon on their clock had to travel the direct way and not the way via the Extended angle on the photon clock of the astronauts 120
time units could have passed this phenomenon is called time dilation in physics if a person moves past an observer it can be observed that the clock of this person ticks much slower than that of the Observer we can also illuminate this effect a little more deeply people are made of matter which basically consists of charged particles called electrons and quarks the particles form matter in which they Exert a force and this comes about in the exchange of photons we know this effect as electromagnetism this force is not only behind the formation of elements in matter
but also behind all kinds of movement or life breathing thinking eating and Metabolism have to do with these forces during all these actions photons are in motion which means they travel distances so that interactions motion and force can take place as the man in the cafe moves past The astronauts at tremendous speed not not only do the photons in his clock take longer to tick but so do the photons in the electromagnetic interactions of his body viewed from the spacecraft the man's hand would move more slowly to his mouth at lunchtime his heartbeat would be
slowed and even cell division would proceed differently if the speed of the spaceship increases to the speed of light this time delay would be so great that the man's Heartbeat and breathing would come to a virtual standstill on Earth time and the sequence of events would be suspended meanwhile not much changes for the man on Earth his heart would continue to beat normally and the next day he would again be sitting at his lunch break for exactly 100 time units from the perspective of the spacecraft however this phenomenon means that the man on Earth would
Age more slowly than the astronauts research Continues currently scientists are still not sure how the phenomenon of time dilation would affect astronauts on Long space flights or perhaps we have not yet properly understood the dimension of time among other things scientists are currently working on slowing down light to the point where it no longer travels at the speed of light at Imperial College in London this is said to have already been achieved light was slowed down by a factor of 15 million and then Only traveled at 66 ft per second but if we now remember
that lighted itself probably knows neither time nor space and if we succeed in slowing light down to such an extent that it virtually matches our speed we might be able to build light Gates that allow us to travel through time and space exciting isn't it now tell us what you think of the fascination of light and its possibilities do you also think that light could be the key to the universe Or at least a travel within the cosmos we look forward to your contributions to the topic in the comments and thanks for watching
