NASA Just Admitted They've Created Something So Advanced It Can Reach Lightspeed

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For decades, scientists have been trying to develop aircraft that can travel at the speed of light so that some of the most fundamental questions of human existence can be answered. How did we come to be? And what lies out there in the vast open? With this net NASA creation, it just might be possible to finally get those questions answered. In this video, we will talk about the latest discovery and uncover what is in store for the future of NASA.
So, let's get right into it.

[hgtdfdgftu]

Prolly a stupid question, If light particles are massless then why can’t they escape gravity of a blackhole?

[fortythreenorth]

Even if we could reach light speed it would take 100, 000 years to cross our own galaxy. Would be great for local star exploration though.

[Invizable]

You would need alot of other technology working together, like a shield around the craft to protect passengers, and a way to go through matter without touching it.

[Whalewraith]

Surely the issue with reaching insane speeds is that you will be obliterated by collision with even a spec of dust. There's a reason the Enterprise has a deflector dish St the front.

[beyondu]

Pretty interesting stuff. We should remember that back in the day people thought that if a car went over like 50 miles per hour the occupants wouldn't be able to breathe. In a couple decades I think we'll have a much better understanding of alternate sources of propulsion.

[ickukln]

"Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?"

[joshuaweaver]

150 years ago we couldn't travel much faster than a horse could run. 100 years ago sustained heavier than air flight hadn't been achieved, 75 years ago we broke the speed of sound, not long after that we reached orbit. Today the ISS moving over 20, 000 mph is mundane. We already have the technology to make nuclear rockets capable of over 100, 000 mph. What amazing things will humans be able to do in another 100 years?

[arconreef]

The infinitesimal thrust that the EM drive supposedly produced (which was so small that the most sensitive scientific instruments on earth could barely measure it) was shown to be an error caused by the testing apparatus. It's not real.

[timmiddleton]

I did that when I was 11 years old, I made a torch.

[mrtrapper]

You have to fold space/time the same way as you would fold a piece of paper. That way propulsion systems are not as important. The main problem is to develop the correct procedure for the folding!

[spaceflight]

The problem with space is just that...the vast distances to cover. Consider this: using the online Warp speed calculator it took Prometheus over 2 years to reach Zeta 2 Reticuli at a little over Warp 2. Enterprise takes 8.5 days to make it at over Warp 9. To get to Kepler 62f takes about a year at maximum speed, and that's a mere 1200 ly distant.

[boogieknee]

By definition even in a vacuum there ARE particles(dust)
any object accelerating to the speed of light will increase its mass
ergo it would increase its own gravitic effect on any object in its proximity.
Unless you can negate gravity itself then you ain't going to travel very far before you create your very own singularity(black hole).
The real problem of travelling to any destination that fast using the method suggested here is that you would risk major alterations to planetary orbits both at the destination and the departure point, due to the wake left by the vessel itself.

[goodtogrow]

What's really scary is they say the gov is usually 50 years more advanced than we are but now they're saying it's more like 300 years more advanced than what we normal people are aware of.

[johnwilliams]

But can it make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs?

[stevewilliams]

How do you avoid space junk, it would destroy the vehicle and everything inside.

[DaNinja]

If we can move so fast prove it with a shot to the Moon and back. We haven't even advanced enough for a Moon base so talk is cheap.

[benrawson]

I think the answer to traveling far distances is going to come from our better understanding of Quantum Entanglement.

[mehGyver]

Can we achieve Ludicrous speed though?

[MatthewM]

If NASA really make a craft to travel light speed. Than they should be able to go back in time. That was one of Einstein theories.

[Bodkin_Ye_Pointy]

Other issues: Why would travel at the speed of light injure passengers on a space craft? Just saying that it would is like the original statements made about the speeds attainable by cars. When the first one's were made, many pontificated that a speed in excess of 20mph was unbearable by humans. Of course a passenger on a vehicle is not traveling at that speed, relative to the vehicle they are stationary and suffer no ill effects unless the vehicle experiences a sudden stop. This would create high g stress on the passengers and they would be injured. I suspect the same applies to light travel. The passengers in the vehicle would only be injured due to rapid acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle which itself could sustain damage, being a secondary cause of injury to the passengers.

The other issue was the premise that at the speed of light people could investigate black holes by getting closer. However, as light itself cannot escape a black hole a vehicle traveling at light speed would not either. The presentation is mixing two concepts. Light speed and faster than light speed. In either case, the vehicle doing these speeds would need to find a way to navigate around the black hole to get a reasonable stream of data rather than a fly bye. Of course, any turn or course adjustment would again introduce the effect of physics and the impact of gravitational pressure. i.e. if the vehicle turns to port, the weight of loose objects like say people, would be pressed to the starboard side of the vehicle and crushed by their own mass as their natural weight is increased by the momentum of the turn.