Faster Than Light Speed Travel With Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the possibility of going faster than the speed of light. If we look at the Einstein's special relativity theory, the speed of light in vacuum has constant velocity of 186,282 miles per second. If you could travel at this speed, you could go around the Earth 7.5 times in one second.

In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre proposed a method that would take us beyond the speed of light limit. In his mathematical theory, he used two points in space-time to demonstrate the expansion and contraction of space fabric. The idea of Alcubierre's theory was that we could use this space-time warp to make an object travel faster than light.

Neil deGrasse Tyson takes examples from science fiction works like Star Trek to demonstrate and explain how an advanced civilization could be capable of manipulating the fabric of space-time itself in order to travel faster than the speed of light.

Einstein's theory of special relativity states that energy and mass are interchangeable, and speed of light travel is impossible for material objects that, unlike photons, have a non-zero rest mass.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Einstein's theory of general relativity allows for time itself to slow down if you travel at relativistic velocity

Einstein's theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. Even if a wormhole could form, it would most likely be very unstable. Wormholes are still speculative because nobody really knows if you could pass through it. The math suggests that you need some sort of exotic material to pry the throat of the wormhole opening so that it wont collapse in on it self. Even then it is possibly unstable.

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Sources:
Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Christian Knoll, Eugen Radu. Traversable Wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell Theory. Physical Review Letters, 2021; 126 (10) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.101102

Erik W. Lentz. 2021. Breaking the warp barrier: hyper-fast solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-plasma theory. Class. Quantum Grav 38: 075015; doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/abe692

[garyhome]

All human achievement begins as a dream.

[dankydiecast]

I’ve always loved how it takes a photon over 100, 000 years to get from the core of the sun to the surface and then BAM!!....straight shot to the earth in 8 minutes.

[ReignLowell-CaedoFaeda]

For thousands of years humans looked up at the sky dreaming about flying and now we have airplanes. If we as a species can achieve that then we can achieve anything. I’d give it a couple more thousand years until someone is born who invents warp drive technology lol

[jeanluc]

Résumé : Faster you travel in the 3 dimension universe, slower you travel in the 4th, time. A photon born in the big bang did not aged a single second.

[guru]

Before 1893 people believed anything heavier than air can never fly, But Wright brothers proved it wrong. Just like this we may one day travel to far star systems or even galaxies, But it takes time like 100-500 years or even more but i firmly believe Human kind will one day prove it. All we have to do is not to give up and to keep our Earth safe for them to live.

[christiand.]

Imagine when humans travel to different galaxies and your ship brokes down somewhere . And you wait for towing somewhere in the middle of nowhere 😂😂

[dsilvermane]

Being a HUGE fan of space sci-fi and someone who's always dreamed of traveling to other planets, at this point the most disappointing thing imaginable is that this probably won't happen during my lifetime :'(

[RandomGamer-qyys]

What pains me is we know all the maths we just need the energy at this point we need help.

[Cosmic-Wanderer]

It was all a dream i used to read wordup magazines. Salt n pepper heavy d up in the limousine

[bradhaaf]

I can imagine all issues solved with AI and programmable matter by 2040 but you might want to wait a year or two and we may be able to program subatomic particles, building a subatomic ship with warp drive and downloading your mind to it. The biggest issue with travelling faster than the speed of light is everyone assumes you do it in the human body

[tommonk]

It's so hard to conceive of the speed of light for the average person. At CERN, they are able to get particles to go about of the speed of light. CERN is 27 kilometers in circumference. For a particle to approach the speed of light, it must go around that track 11, 000 times per second. Sheesh!!!

[ashishshevkar]

Just reached here.. faster than light itself to watch the video

[geraldscott]

I have studied the concept of faster than light travel for several years. Relativity clearly makes it impossible to travel faster than the speed of light through normal time and space. And I have completely discarded the wormhole idea, talked about so much By the late Stephen Hawking. Even if wormholes exist, and even if they are stable, they would not take you where you wanted to go. You would have to find the entrance to one, enter it, and come out who knows where. And could you even get back? Faster than light travel is going to require the warping of spacetime by the spacecraft itself, and there will have to be a way to control speed and direction. Also, it would have to be on a very small scale, The distortion of spacetime would have to be an area not much bigger than the ship itself, to avoid damaging other things. Navigation would be an issue, because at several times the speed of light, which would be necessary to get anywhere within a reasonable time (and I mean getting to Alpha Centauri in no more than, say, 24 hours) you would have to be able to control what science fiction calls the "warp field" Your ship would not be moving, spacetime would be moving. It's like being in a car where the road is moving instead of the car. This will not likely happen in the next few hundred years, but if we are ever going to travel to the stars, it will have to happen at some point. It is the only way to get there.

[spacecitizen]

Explaining interstellar travel while taking into a 20 year old potato

[Seriksy]

1:51 is pretty much explained in Interstellar. The best space sci-fi movie to date in my opinion

[StarDust_]

Can you catch your self from behind if you run around a tree with the speed of light?? 🤪😁

[littleshedevl]

“Can we travel at the speed of light?”

Well, we could if we didn’t have to waste time by continuing to go back to a time where we have to explain to flat earthers that the earth is a sphere

[antonio]

My 8yr old asked me " can you get warps from a warp bubble " I laughed so hard 🤣 I broke a rib.

[suzannebrown]

Linear space travel won’t do it. Warping, or bending, of space time could do it IF we can figure out how to create a device and a craft to achieve the desired result.

[yanivka]

Light “feels” no time due to it been in the speed of light so for photon coming from different stars the journey was instantaneously, if we could fly near the speed of light we would be able to get almost anywhere in a human life time due to our “time” getting slower as we get closer to the speed to light, the only problem that the people that would not move at the speed of light will probably not exist after the trip because of the amount of time that they “feel” that passed (much bigger then a human life time)