Can We Detect Faster Than Light Travel? 

Happy 300K subs, Event Horizon team!

JMG is clearly a member of the Tal Shiar determining if we can detect his fleet.

Ooooh I like that the Alcubierre drive can also function at sub-luminal speeds! I never really contemplated this option before. I went through loving it, then abandoning it because FTL in my construction is prohibited forever. Using it to travel fast, but sub-luminal is a fantastic prospect.

There is something sort of similar you can do with airplanes and the sound barrier. Subsonic passenger jets that cruise close to the speed of sound (Mach 0.76-0.86) can sometimes achieve ground speeds that are faster than the speed of sound at sea level by using jet streams. If the airplane is going 500 knots and it is travelling with a jet stream moving at 200kts, it can travel across the ground at 700 knots, which is faster than sound at sea level and standard temps (about 660kts). The airplane itself physically cannot travel faster than sound, but it is travelling within a column of air which is itself moving, much in the same way a spaceship with a warp drive would travel sub-luminally but within a bubble of warping spacetime that causes it to travel faster than light with respect to an outside observer.

I read their paper "Gravitational Waveforms From Warp Drive Collapse" What I understood of it? We live in a universe that is both object specific and observer specific. Not only is angular momentum conserved, but also linear momentum. Newtons laws. An object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will remain in motion etc. So we are talking about the momentum of point masses. The only way I can think of to get around this problem is... We somehow make our space craft's mass invisible to spacetime. By that I mean we somehow make the craft seem lighter than it is without breaking down the bonds of the strong force. Then it will take less energy to move it. The other option is we somehow learn to exploit the fundamental particles of the standard model. And project mass particles around the craft, in particular infront of it. But that might break a conservation law? Or we cover the rear of the craft in Casmir Comb and use some method to block or unblock standing waves from getting between the walls of the comb. As a Star Trek fan I am looking forward to the field of Wave Field Theory coming about.

But can we detect Ludicrous Speed??

Interesting subject 🎉 can"t wait

Yes, any material will be significantly blue shifted if it is accelerating towards us, heavily red shifted in certain non-natural wavelengths if it is accelerating away from us.

Great love and respect between the two guests , very modest people ! Wish them all the best !

Happy 4th to JMG and the Opossum.

Any object traveling faster than light will appear to us to be going backwards in time. So, if I look out into space and see a spaceship approaching the light speed barrier, what I'll also notice is something like a "shadow" of the same ship, reversing towards the other ship. When the two ships appear to meet, that is when the spaceship goes super-luminal, with a bright flash of light like a shockwave.

An all time great episode here! I love hearing about more speculative physics and the frequency domain of gravitational waves is something I haven't considered before.

I love this subject matter! Thanks JMG!

Yup. Just don’t blink. It’s that fast!

Congrats on 300K! And thanks for another pair of wonderful guests, what an insightful interview!

I always wanted to ask: Wouldn't negative energy densities cause a vacuum collapse?

Now I can drift off to sleep faster than light thanks to this video! (Don’t worry I’ll re listen fully away with a coffee at work in the morning)

So badass. Literally was just reading about this yesterday.

If we could develop an FTL drive we would be able to gather more information on detecting it or not. I think even if they are not capable of FTL we need to figure out a way to create warp drives. After all, they solve other issues too. -time dilation -moving objects like dust around the ship, preventing collisions -minimizing inertia since the ship itself isn't actually moving, thereby not crushing the occupants into thin pinkish paste from sudden acceleration. I'm sure there could be more problems it solves if we all spent time thinking about it.

Thank you for asking big questions.

Great video and information !

How do we force neutrino wave frequencies to interact with normal tangible material particulate matter frequencies?

It's been found when the Casimir plates are moved towards each other very fast, it generates photons. I think it's quite possible that the inverse is also the case. When the two plates are moved apart at speed, negative energy is generated. Turn the plates into two circular plates with a tiny gap between them & rotate them in opposite directions.

Fantastic interview, John! Thanks a bunch!!! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I would be interested in hearing your take on a comparative analysis of the difference / similarity between the quest to break the speed of sound barrier and the speed of light barrier. Thank you.

To pretend I know what I'm talking about for a few minutes: I wonder how the possibility of FTL interacts with other aspects of physics? Does something interacting with your frame of reference FTL locally violate things other than causality? After all, from the local light cone's perspective, a large amount of energy just appeared from nowhere, and if it brought ordinary matter with it, it violates all kinds of conservation laws: energy, spin, baryon/lepton number, momentum... And from the QM perspective, how does this affect the probability distributions? Assume the first FTL drive breaks down and is never repaired after its first trip. OK, but everything along its path has just had the possibility introduced, and that seems like it would screw with quantum states something fierce, if an FTL cosmic ray could just randomly show up and introduce some new variables. I got beaten to an intellectual pulp by mere Calculus II, and QM is a lot of integrals, so I have no idea if I'm understanding the subject well enough to gesture vaguely at a meaningful concept, but it seems like an interesting avenue for research, if there's an approach that doesn't require solving quantum gravity.

What about scaling down... what is the smallest warp bubble that could be created? If you could scale down to the point where a Casimir device becomes a viable source of negative energy for establishing the boundary conditions then could we manufacture something like a localized tachyon?

This channel always has good content. We need the most possible sensitive gravity wave detectors, because there is physics there that could have energy density quantities that make splitting the atom look silly. When you have a black hole merger, these waves carry solar masses worth of energy, we need this physics.

I loved this. Smartest people on earth talking about imaginary science. We must conclude now that this is the best thing for humanity.

Very interesting discussion !

If FTL is impossible detecting it will be difficult. Regarding the Alcubierre drive, do we in principle understand how to build even a testbench version? What I have in mind isn't a drive at all but something that when started cause an effect. Maybe the effect would be so tiny that advanced instruments would be needed even to detect this effect but still. Perhaps something that mysteriously bend a laser beam a tiny bit when projecting through the warpfield?

Thanks John salute from Toronto happy 4th of July.

Tell me how to create the bubble wall with hundreds of Planck length thickness and how you solve the energy distribution during FTL travel? And how you solve the violations of different energy conditions?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="103">1:43</a> "breaking off a chunk of Space-Time, and then going super-luminal with that because it can" - great description of a (Trek) warp bubble. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="139">2:19</a> when you reach Warp 10 (maximum improbability)?

i always wondered if that gravity wave detector they have in louisiana could detect spacecraft bending and expanding space?

Interesting interview! Thanks for the episode!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1054">17:34</a> my favourite, quantum gravity wormholes.

Is anyone building a gravitational wave projector?

I dance as if I’m a ballet dancer when I hear the intro music of your newly released videos. Then I hunker down and enjoy the show. How do I become a member? I see they commented 14 hours ago, do they get content released earlier? Is that patron? If I was going to do a patron it would definitely be for JMG. How do I do this?

I CANT WAIT TO WATCH THIS

🙏 thank you.

Great guests!

What happens if you go I. Circles like in a pool? Can you go in reverse?

We need to find the gravitational 'strings' that link galaxies. I've experienced the same in life. Two objects that collide have eddies that link the two, like a river. It's quite natural.

A geometric map to start the video? You have my attention. ^.^

Cool discussion!! How I want to know the possibilities here...

Hyperluminal speeds are possible, the increase in mass that is supposed to prevent it, is of RELATIVE mass. Any object travelling towards it will split in two, like a form of macro-superposition, the actual object will accelerate beyond light-speed, whilst the trace seen by observers will never & appear to slow down, just like an astronaut falling into a black hole.

Can gravitational waves be a carrier signal for information?

Love Event Horizon. Thursdays would be terrible if not for this podcast. Been following yous guys for 2 or 3 years now. Love it Love it LOOOOOVE IT❤🎉

rly enjoyable episode :) a question i have, if a 1 km warp drive needs the mass energy of our star, would all the gravitational potential of that energy be contained in the distortion of space time of the bubble? i guess another way to ask, the mass energy of the sun in a kilometer sounds like a neutron star (and the surface gravity on those gets relativistic😱)? thx again the guests this ep were great!

I heard recently that there's a new theory that micro-black holes make up the very fabric of space-time, which is what "might" allow information to apparently be transmitted FTL in the case of entangled particles. My question to you is: Could the one-electron universe theory be correct if say, the single electron was using these wormholes to traverse the universe instantly to be anywhere it needs at any given time? Would love a video about this but totally understand if you don't dedicate a whole video to the subject. An answer in a comment would be just as rad. Love this channel. It's like science ASMR.

Nice job

I'm thinking it's way far off but the way we brake the light barrier will come from gravitational waves like silver surfer if we can create the wave and ride

Why not use a Gonkulator to achieve FLS ?

You can get negative energy by extracting it from black holes.

Thou shalt not violate causality within thine own light cone.

My pet theory is that at least part of the universe's expansion is due to warp drive runoff.

Have a great weekend everyone 🙃

I tried to but didnt see it coming

So you’re saying the neutrino detector we built in Antarctica is for finding ships traveling faster than light.

White Alcubierre Rapid Propulsion drive. Like it's meant to be.

Hey buddy can you do a video on FTL communication??

This video reminds me of an interesting Bayesian reduction in physics I wrote recently. Its aim is to find the closest edge of a commonality space which can be included and shared between all of the current competing Unified or Unifying Theories of Everything. Its axiom path is along the possibility of existence vector from omni-possible to singularly possible. The reduction can be applied like this: Is reality real? Is it all just a simulation.. Is it all completely synthetic, fake? Reduction: The concept of "Reality" at least exists within our universe, and so within any limits of existence. The existence of this notion necessitates that the fundamentals of existence whatever they are, allow for them. Observers within any type of reality experience some kind of certainty that they are within it. Certainty in observations done by these observers have been proven to play a part in shaping the reality they are in, or deciding which reality they are in and observing. Since the observation that we are in a reality is a high level fundamental that implies they can exist all the way to the top, no matter what level ours might be on, it could not be simulated if there was not a reality to simulate it in. Dependence on this indelible fundamental in order for our reality to even be nothing but a simulation. It has to be present at all levels and preceding the most base initial reality, shows that whether our reality is simulated inside another reality or not, is of no meaning to its realness and inseparability from base existence. The most base fundamentals which allow for base reality are equally present and fundamental in our reality. Therefore no reality or simulated reality can exist totally devoid realness. Any simulated reality no matter how fake has to contain and be comprised partly of base, real, fundamental reality.

Can we acknowledge that near-light speed is not really much help at all, for our interstellar fantasies?

This is a topic for the year 10191

Where would we go?

Make it so!

From what I understand as a layman is that Gravity is NOT a force but the curvature of space created by Energy/mass so why are we trying to strongarm gravity into a quantum force?

I thought sub-light speed warp travel did not require negative mass or energy?

Never go plaid!

Is there time/space no wake zones

The guest sounds like Wojak’s illuminated nemesis

At one time scientists thought the controls on an airplane inverted at the speed of sound also.

Perhaps a civilization who conquered this would never perish because they could always return to the time frame they started from. There are immortals out there somewhere.

Feed Saluga, "I see very little difference"

What would a small scale detector look like? One that could only look at a small patch of sky?

She mentioned the "Casimir effect" its also one of the ways to prove zero point energy does exist, and can be harnessed. 100% fact...it exist in A unacknowledged special access program, in A few government contractors here in the United States.

Despite everything going on these days, we live in a time where scientists are talking about the real possibility of actual WARP DRIVE. If that's no amazing i don't know.

I need to go to the Dagobah system to complete my training

Can you host kevin knuth on that topic?

Somewhat reminds me of star trek. Can't remember clearly about the first warp drive their and if others could see that test run 🤔

You are not creating a closed time light curve or inverse light cone with an Alcubierre warp drive, because the bubble of spacetime you are inhabiting and are moving through space at superluminal speeds in is operating under the same relativistic conditions as spacetime at its "rest" state.

If we can't, hopefully we can put up "slow down, sentient species live here" like signs around the solar system.

We already have the warp but we can’t bend it the right way. The bubble is already there though.

Not sure I'd fancy flying through space at 90% the speed of light. I've seen Titanic, bumping into stuff you didn't notice till it was too late doesn't end well.

We can’t detect faster than light travel if we’ve already decided that it’s impossible

Warp speed Mr. Sulu

One of my biggest takeaways from this channel is that Godier is "Goat Eee Yay" I've pronounced this incorrectly my entire life, and no one has ever corrected me. :(

Vulcans are observing carefully

Has the opossum gone on vacation? Did they take the Le Baron?

its all in the shape dude

Once you surpass the speed of light all other light vanishes and all you can see is other things that are traveling the same speed as you. No matter how far away they are. Yep

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1068">17:48</a> Also, this is a bit off topic, but why is everyone obsessed with this warp drive, when we have things like Ion thrusters, and can generate small quantities of antimatter in the lab? Combine an ion thruster with contained antimatter and then shoot the Xenon gas into the magnetic containment field, and doesn't that become an antimatter rocket? These are technologies we already understand/can do right now. I want to leave this planet yesterday, not 50 years from now.

No. To detect something you need to know what signals it emits. To know what signals something emits you need to know the principles by which it operates. We do not know any principles by which anything can travel faster than light. So, by definition, we cannot detect it and know what we are detecting.

Warp fluid? The aether has made a comeback! Negative mass only requires the negative Higgs boson, and CERN hasn't done anything lately.

😮

If you're sure there will be nothing there and you don't look. That's where the monster is waiting to jump out at you from.

so we're looken for warp signatures. copy that cap'n O.O

Dr Katy who? 😀

we can't even catch a blacked out dodge charger at night, so i doubt we can detect faster than light travel