SpaceX is striving to expand its grip of the Stars even farther as Elon Musk is nearly
done developing a warp drive traveling at the speed of light and Beyond are now only possible
through the use of warp drive in science fiction novels however it could not be long before this
futuristic technology becomes a reality Elon Musk is reportedly working hard to figure out how to
create a warp drive according to a report many scientists are looking into the possibilities so
they aren't the only ones trying to make the unthinkable reality nevertheless there are a
number of significant obstacles to overcome so join me as we further explore the possibility
of exploring the cosmos using a warp drive hello everyone welcome back to Elon Musk Evolution where
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determined that 2022 is long enough in order to travel to the nearest inhabited planet you have
built a spacecraft none of the typical candidates such as our nearby neighbors Mars Venus or Titan
are potentially inhabited your best bet is to take off for one of our nearest Interstellar neighbors
rather than take the chance of experiencing any more calamities in 2023 astronomers discovered
many potentially hospitable exoplanets in our closest neighbor Proxima Centauri in 2017. it
appears like this could be your best bet how long will it take you to reach your new destination
though as a point of comparison take into account that the Saturn V rocket that propelled the Apollo
11 spacecraft into orbit clocked in at just under 40 000 kilometers per hour let's however assume
that your spacecraft has a top speed that is roughly equivalent to that of the Parker solar
probe or little around 700 000 kilometers per hour how long will it take you to go to Proxima
Centauri which is about 4.2 light years away from Earth several months years decades it would take
roughly 6 600 years for you to reach your target assuming you could move as quickly as the Parker
solar probe given that you have figured out a method to survive no amount of gaming will keep
you occupied for that long for example it would take 113 000 years to reach Proxima Centauri if
you could only move at the speed of the Apollo 11 spacecraft you must comprehend the speed of light
in order to comprehend warp drives maybe there's a way to solve your problem after all warp drive
you need to understand the vast scale of our universe and the concept of light years before
we even start to accelerate into warp speed in order to describe the size of the universe
which is unfathomably large scientists typically employ the unit of light years the distance that
light covers in one year on earth is known as a light year light travels at a speed of about 186
000 miles per second making it the fastest object in our universe about 6 trillion miles
or 9 trillion kilometers are contained in one light year traveling at the speed of light would
take 8.3 minutes to get you to the sun which is a little closer to us to get to Andromeda the
largest nearest galaxy to us would need traveling 2.5 million light years even if we were to build a
ship that could travel at the speed of light there would be a finite number of places we
could go not as difficult but still unpleasant the universe is as we have stated enormous but
could we build a vessel that can go faster than light the concept of a warp drive may not be as
far-fetched as formerly believed even though it sounds like something from your favorite
science fiction program or film it might even be essential to our survival in his famous quote the
late Stephen Hawking said I don't think the human race Will Survive the next Thousand Years unless
we spread into space there are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet but I'm
an optimist we will reach out to the Stars science fiction version of the warp drive
warp drive technology was defined as a device made to manipulate space to violate the laws of motion
you make the slightest error you'll collapse the warp field you'll smash this ship in the venerable
Star Trek film and television series franchise sounds fantastic doesn't it technically a warp
drive enables space travelers to move more quickly than the speed of light according to Star Trek it
functioned by creating warp fields to create a Subspace bubble around the Starship this caused
the local space-time Continuum to be warped and allowed the Starship to travel at speeds that
were often much faster than the speed of light in Star Trek all Interstellar travel and trade
are made possible by this fictitious technology from the year 2450. what about in reality though
defining a warp drive Warp Speed Ahead as previously stated in our conceived Universe
a warp drive would enable us to literally control space-time exploiting a flaw in physics to travel
at the speed of light the alcubiere warp drive which is currently merely a theoretical concept
is the closest approach to an actual Warp drive it is based on a very speculative physics paper
written in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel alcubiere who offered what he claimed to be a
workable explanation for the interaction between space-time and energy what would prompt us to act
in such a manner you can give Einstein credit for more than a century our view of the cosmos
has been Guided by Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity relativistic cosmology
has placed limitations on how science has been conducted one of these suggested limitations is
based on the notion that the speed of light is an indestructible all-encompassing speed cap these
rules outfeats like Interstellar travel at the speed of light alcubiere's response he thinks
that possibly altering space-time will provide the answer how exactly does your warp drive work
let's revisit the case of the space flight to Proxima Centauri in this instance we have a new
and upgraded ship with alcubierre's warp drive technology installed as opposed to a regular
spaceship how would it work perfectly simply put it as your ship moves towards Proxima Centauri the
space in front of it will become smaller while the space in back become larger a bubble of flat space
Also referred to as a warp bubble would contain your ship as it traveled through space-time the
term alcubierre metric refers to the answer to Einstein's field equations that would enable
this kind of warp speed travel imagine that you and your roommate picked up the sheet on your bed
straightened it and held Each corner in place so that it was poised above the mattress perfectly
level and stable this sheet would bend if a round crystal ball will drop on it and then allowed to
rest there the sheet here is space-time and here will be your spaceship inside of its warp bubble
not only is our spacecraft creating a crater in space but it is also expanding by dragging some
space time towards it and pushing space-time away from it according to Matt Williams of
universe today since the ship is not moving within this bubble but is being carried along
as the region itself moves conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation
would not apply hence the rules of SpaceTime time and the laws of Relativity would not be
violated in the conventional sense the alcubierre metric prevents our ship from deviating from
Einstein's equations this phenomenon would offer our customized spaceship distinctive qualities in
comparison to a light beam moving outside our warp bubble we may get there faster inside our bubble
it's interesting to note that contrary to what Einstein predicted the fabric of space-time is
not constrained by the speed of light however with the warp drive there are some issues what
kind of spaceship would we need to build in order to accomplish this for our faster than
light travel to be viable we would need to design a football-shaped spacecraft with a huge ring
surrounding it consider the gigantic ship seen in interstellar or even 2001 Space Odyssey the ring
encircling the ship would be composed of exotic stuff which would force space-time to distort
around it and result in the described scenario so why don't we support this space-time would have to
be extremely large in order to be able to support the construction of a spacecraft that could
warp the minimal energy needed would be roughly equivalent to the mass energy of Jupiter scientist
opinions have recently been changed though there is hope according to Harold Sonny White of nasus
Johnson Space Center who mentioned the idea of developing an Al QB air warp motor at the 100
Year Starship Symposium a gathering to examine Interstellar space flight it was originally
thought that the ring on our ship had to be a perfect circle which added to the complexity of
its construction White's updated calculations however suggest that the ring encircling our
ship be more oblong in shape the mass energy of the Voyager 1 probe might be used to power
a spacecraft in this way even more recently it was implied in a study released by NASA that the space
agency had at least given warp drive technology a serious examination before we become an
interplanetary species there are many steps that must be taken to attain Interstellar travel and
it may take a very long time there are numerous other actions we must follow in order to arrive
at our destination it will be a huge challenge to establish a self-sustaining civilization on Mars
there needs to be an intersection of the set of people who wish to go and the set of people who
can't afford to go remark Elon Musk once and that intersection of sets has to be enough
to construct a self-sustaining civilization warp drive technology though might be a crucial first
step we can place our hopes on the advancement of ion propulsion up until that point do you believe
warp drive technology will be available soon what places would you visit it is something that Elon
Musk is working to make a reality the SpaceX founder is actively discussing warp drive as
a means of making travel to the red planet more viable as musk's aspirations to Journey to Mars
this decade intensifies recall that in 2019 the renowned astrophysicist seems to prefer that Elon
Musk focus more of his efforts on making Star Trek a reality rather than worrying about cyber trucks
good Elon Musk take on a Persona of Star Trek's legendary warp drive Creator zephram
Cochran Neil deGrasse Tyson an astronomer and science expert appears to concur
Tyson sent Elon Musk a brief letter via Twitter in which he questioned when the businessman would
stop tinkering with Mars Rockets hyperloops cyber trucks and brain computer interfaces and
instead devote his time and energy to creating a warp drive similar to the one used to propel
Star Trek spacecraft across galaxies sincerely Space Geeks of the world he said in his signature
in a response to Tyson's post musk wrote If we establish a city on Mars Earth Mars Transit will
be a tremendous forcing function for inventing something like warp drive musk isn't about to
transform SpaceX and Tesla into side projects so he provided a persuasive case for sticking with
his main professions musk responded to Tyson's tweet with a strong justification for staying
with his major businesses if we establish a city on Mars Earth Mars Transit will be a powerful
forcing function for inventing something like warp drive musk isn't about to transform SpaceX
and Tesla into side projects but who knows Elon Musk is very famous for its volatility it will be
no surprise if one one day he will be announcing a warp drive of its own meanwhile the Starship Mars
rocket is currently being prepared for SpaceX for its first ever orbital test flight at its South
Texas facility SpaceX fired up ship 24 a model of the 165 foot tall upper stage spacecraft for
Starship during a new static fire test on December 15. at 201 PM eastern time one of the six Raptor
engines on ship 24 started to fire blasting for around 7 seconds while the car was still firmly
fastened to the ground NASA's space flight and Rocket Ranch Boca Chica both recorded the quick
test on video SpaceX is constructing the totally reusable Starship to launch a range of additional
missions closer to Earth as well as transport people and goods to Mars and the moon for instance
according to musk SpaceX intends to use Starship to launch the majority of its next starlink
Broadband satellites customers have already been secured by SpaceX for Starship lunar missions the
Japanese businessman yusaka meizawa arranged a star ship Journey around the Moon that will take
a few artists and influencers including everyday astronaut Tim Dodd NASA chose the spacecraft to
be the first crude Lander for its Artemis lunar program and that ends today's episode
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