Scientist: I’ve discovered a new material, antimatter! NASA engineer: dose it fall down or up? *everyone* DOWN! UP! SIDE WAYS! NO, UP! DOWN! COOKIES! UP! LEFT! WEST!
I absolutely love how you actually educate us whilst you show us the content you've created or are showcasing. I'm a space nut, and i've learned QUITEEEE a bit from your videos. So thanks!
I love your vids.itslike listening to a lecture on quantum physics while watching a background video of space warping used to cross the solar system.so much more interesting that my physics class
Scott, I just wanted to say thanks for this vid. I love all of your stuff, but when you bust out into theoretical physics lectures I get all warm and fuzzy inside. I just lean back and wait for my mind to be blown.
Oh boy, stacking those alcuberrie drives multiplies the speed, right? Where's Danny2462? Get a whole shitton of them, stack them, and destroy Kerbin again!
I wish they'd show what it would actually look like to be inside an Alcubierre field--encased in a sphere of spacetime that's oddly lensed at the front, and almost reflective at the back, with a miniscule band of perfect clarity around the midsection.
Omg I just watched a documentary about this and here is a ksp video about it! Haha. I even saw the casimier effect (however you spell it) lol awesome video and I hope this space craft exists in the future. :)
HAL9000 Not exactly. If I could get there in minutes there would be no need for hibernating them. The difficulty in killing the entire crew while they where interfering would be great. Also, I would have no reason to kill them the first place, since they would know the secret only hours after departure.
Wow loved the interior at the front, did not know you could do that with the game, imagine a whole ship like that with a full interior you could walk around and interact with using your little kerbals
I actually did a report at the end of the year in AP physics about the Quantum Field Theory and the Vacuum Catastrophe. I just felt the need to mention that.
Hi Scott One of the things I learned about in School was the the original equation for the prediction for antimatter was the Klein-Gordon equation. When the problem was first solved they discovered two sets of solutions. The solution produced positive energy values and negative energy values. At the time of the problem the negative energy solutions to the problem were written off as invalid. In time it was discovered it solved the problem anti-matter. Still people couldn't accept negative energy values so instead it was stated that some quantum property was inverted to the "normal" particle. The idea was then that antimatter was actually a particle that quantum tunneled across the dirac sea where the middle of the sea was the speed of light and one side of the graph went toward zero in velocity wereas the other side went to twice the speed of light. Feynman took it furth and suggested with Wheeler-Feynman absorber theory. So with these ideas is it possible to think of anti-matter itself as having negative energy densities.
vacuum catastrophe I thought was meant to be where the universe undergoes a phase change into a lower vacuum energy state, basically destroying everything and rewriting physics.... not... you know, a catastrophically bad prediction....
Scott, there is a faster way to eliminate your momentum with an Alcubierre drive. The idea is with a large body with high gravity to initially find your velocity vector after warping in. After you have done that, like in this video, rather than burning and wasting precious fuel, wait until you are almost out of the SOI of the target body. As you move outward you can continue to charge your exotic matter as well. Finally, warp in close to the planet again and repeat as necessary. The conserves moment and save fuel for precision maneuvers. This particular maneuver takes time but saves energy. If you have exotic matter to spare, you can speed up the process by warping in close to the planet, and after your distance has doubled, or gravitational forces have decreased by 75% due to the inverse square law, you warp in close again. the more time you spend close to the planet, the faster you slow down the relative velocity. Same thing goes for speeding up. This maneuver makes planning warp trips so much faster. But watch out, you can only have so much exotic matter so make sure you give yourself a buffet to regenerate matter and don't warp in so close that you can't control your orbit in relation to the speed at which you can generate exotic matter. Hope this helps :D
The irony here is that it takes game time, but much less Kerbal time than a classic orbital transfer, so basically while being OP, this thing makes you play more ans spend less gameplay time in time warp, genius !
Actually Scott, negative energy densities have been observed. For example, the Casimir Effect, Hawking Radiation, and squeezed vacuum states. The only problem is we have no idea how to store that and put it inside a starship
The Alcubierre Drive (sp?) is an interesting concept, for those that don't know, it uses mechanics similar to have a surfboard moves over water, but instead of water it's space. Seriously though, there are people who have written a lot of interesting things on it and I'd suggest researching the theory a little, it's pretty cool stuff.
this mod is so cool I used it with a huge xenon tank (from kw rocketry I think) and went for a trip round the Kerbin solar system came back still had half the fuel left its so useful
Here is "Faster than Light: Warp Drive - SpaceVision 2013" a 59 min talk discussing the possibility of warp drive. Faster than Light: Warp Drive - SpaceVision 2013
Antimatter has been studied quite well in fact. It falls down. Its gravity also attracts and does not repulse. It is quite ordinary, when not mixed up with "normal" matter. Also, everything "falls down". That's the trick with gravity - it is not a force at all, just geometry. So it affects anything exactly the same, with no difference based on any property of the falling object. Zero mass also falls down, so there's no reason to expect negative mass to be different. If it existed it would also fall down. The only difference is how things would fall towards it, not how it would fall towards things.
i thought the casimir effect and the experiment you described with the 2 plates was to prove that particles of all kinds pop in and out of existence in pairs, like virtual particles and you can get it to make photons if you pull one of the plates apart fast and the photon was created cuz it lost its twin due to the expansion.
I love how such complex ideas (like warp drive) can be fueled by such core human concepts ("it would be cool if warp drive existed.") Science is awesome. :)
various sources indicate that the IXS Enterprise will be able to complete a voyage between here and Alpha Centauri (4.3 ly away) in about 2 weeks. If this does work, then we've already gained access to conducting manned ground missions on nearby earth-like worlds, and maybe even colonize said worlds, along with creating mining colonies in asteroid belts and outposts on more remote worlds like the various moons of Sol system. If the Enterprise holds up on her maiden voyage into the warp, and comes out in one piece, then we have just saved humanity from it's dying homeworld and instantly turned space travel into a commodity in one fell swoop.
Because matter falls down, and antimatter is the opposite of matter, so you could jump to the conclusion that it would interact with gravity in a different way.
I think it's a bit of a silly idea as well, since it's supposed to have positive mass, but it's hard to predict properties of matter we can't even collect in large quantities, so it could be possible.
Totally Not A Cylon but it's not the opposite of matter. It just has opposite electrical charge. If it did have negative mass then it would be a candidate for warping space.
JimPlaysGames I'll also add that we have found neutral particles that have positive mass, so we can't just jump to the conclusion that anti-matter has negative mass.
Totally Not A Cylon Anti matter isn't the opposite at all. Just there is anti in it doesn't mean it isn't positive matter. That is why they call negative matter negative matter. Anti matter is a whole different thing.
You mean press a button and all hell brakes lose, the universe gives up, but you don't go very far? That's not only in the stock game, that IS the stock game!
If we had a system with two bodies, one with positive mass and one with negative mass, how would the forces and acceleration due gravity look like? What about the total kinetic energy and momentum, would it be preserved? And as always, great video, Scott Manley!
Energy and matter are one in the same, antimatter exists, antimatter is the opposite of matter, negative energy is the opposite of energy, energy exists, matter exists: therefore, negative energy exists
13:45 is this similar to the holes (gaps) in the sheet metal on the front of a microwave oven door? (thats what ive always assumed) that light can pass through the gaps but microwaves cant
No, he is referring to a quantum mechanical meaning of the word "fit". In the casimer experiment, virtual photons are confined to certain energies and there is lower bound energy which microwaves for example are too weak to poses. It's less like a large man trying to get through a small door than like a small child being told he's too short to ride this ride.
There actually is a postulate from John Wheeler that there IS only one electron in the universe that just happens to be moving forwards and backwards in time.
How do I collect the materials being needed to warp, when I cant procced Orbit with Spacedock? And how do I collect the materials?😅. Furthermore I cant place the Spacedock Vacuum Thruster Help pls
ok, in science it works like this: When you posit something like 'negative energy' you have to actually FIND it to make it work. No negative energy, no drive. What rules it out currently is thelack of such energy, and until it is found this it all conjecture. Neat idea either way, and proof that there's more than one way to get to a number you want :D
hay awesome but I seem to be having trouble with it, I've downloaded it and have installed it but when ever I try to right click on the warp ring nothing come up, the craft wont let me warp or charge. can some one any one HELP ME...thank you
