The Alcubierre Time Weapon and Detecting Failing Warp Drives
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- A spooky new take on the possibilities of the Alcubierre warp drive and the potential for being able to detect the gravitational waves generated when such a warp drive fails.
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You set out for another star system on a craft that reaches 16% c. You are the first!
Arriving at your destination, you find a small station with people waiting to great you. W? T? F? you think.
"Three years after you left, we had a breakthrough that let us reach 20% light speed."
@alchobum you use a colony ship that moves at 1%. While you are on your colony you get live updates from the craft that pass you every decade or so.
Similar to one of the side missions in Starfield. You meet a generation ship built by a guy who realized Earth was doomed and left before grav drives were invented. You are then tasked with deciding whether they stay and basically become indentured servants to the corpos who already turned their planet into a resort or help them update their ship so they can find a new home with modern tech.
This is a significant reason I think many future humans will avoid generation ships. Why should I die in the Arkship when people will beat my dependents there anyway? What is the sacrifice worth?
@@Preston241 descendants not dependants
@@Preston241 Or, just the wierdos who can't get along with others will willingly get on a generation ship, thinking they will get along with the other wierdos like them, but none ofthem are alike, they are all super weird, and things will go very sideways, if you think cults go crazy when isolated in a rural area, a generation ship will go way crazier isolated by immense space and time from the rest of humanity. The ability ffor a leader to rewrite history/gaslight/brainwash in such a setting is vast to say the least.
To set the scale in perspective, Cody's Lab did a scale model of the solar system on a football field, using a pea for the Sun. The Sun was at one goal line, Earth was placed just over 2 feet from the Sun, and Pluto was at ~30yd line. Oh, and Alpha Centauri was 130 MILES away! Our ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM didn't even make it over the 50....and our NEAREST star is 130 miles away. Let that sink in.
Space is too Damn big.
Cody is a great Science Communicator. JMG isn't half bad either 😉
@@BORDEMentertainment2 space truckers will become a top job!
sink, you can come in now.
Cosmic!!
16:50-17:10… Or, in the future we are the first to develop a time weapon and use it to eliminate all threats. We ARE the reason we are alone in the universe. Not because we are unique, only because we eliminated everyone else.
That would be such a dark, ironic solution to the Fermi Paradox.
It’s grim but honestly here’s hoping. If we aren’t first to the game we’re dead. It’s only a matter of time.
#hfy story material right there
Whoa...
For the emperor!
Or, the possibility you missed, we are the only civilization in the universe because WE used those time weapons to remove everyone else. The darkest answer to the Fermi Paradox.
I'd still prefer that one to the grabby aliens one that we can't stop hearing about.
At least in the dark human supremacist solution, we can still have FTL.
Sounds pretty Bright to me.
An entire universe, belonging purely to Humanity.
There is no fermi paradox. Life is everywhere. He asked where they are, the implication that he meant "they are nowhere" was added by other people in retrospect.
@RVGmetallicasaw lol we belong to the universe, because it will always outlast us. We might wind up being the only species with our level of sentience that plays in it for a little while, but the Heat Death cometh, and none shall escape it.
Wow. That would make us the deadliest & most psychopathic intelligent life in the universe... Based on our history, that's possible, I must admit.
The First Contact with Aliens will a copyright infringement notice for the Alcubiere Drive
Space monkey mouse coming from the heavens to offer us a cease and dissist is not how I'd hoped we meet aliens
In Amazing Stories, S2 E21 titled "Miss Stardust" a man named Joe Willoughby tries to promote a beauty pageant called Miss Stardust, but things turn difficult when a strange alien known as the "Cabbage Man" comes to Earth as a representative of an organization that claims the rights to the title. Rather than resolve the matter through the legal system, the Cabbage Man threatens to destroy the Earth.
I'm thinking it will be aliens trying to sell you an extended warranty for your Alcubierre Drive.
Patent, nothing more. Star Trek did that - it's exactly the same thing.
"It doesn't violate the rules in concept." 🤔I can relate. I got through high school applying that axiom.
Not me. I always had a knack for finding and breaking rules no one thought existed, until I did. Spent a lot of time in the school auditorium doing “in school suspension”.
I hated school. Looking back, I wish I would have known what I do now. I would have payed a lot more attention and cherished the relatively care free days.
But, on the whole, I’ve learned a hell of a lot more outside of school than I ever did in it. Mostly from getting older and calming down a bit, reading more and watching channels like JMG’s.
"I don't feel tardy"
DLR
"It's really is an element that does not want to exist." SAME, Francium. Same.
Depression is a bitch. God be with you.
If you believe you want to exist hard enough and often enough, then you will want to exist.
-No wonder they called it Fr*ncium-
@@aaronfredrickson9538 check out this one weird trick, depression hates it!
Buy this guy's books. He is every bit as cool as you think he is.
does he have more than the one book Supermind? I did love that book, one of my favorite ive ever read.
Your space videos are just the best. Thank you for all that you do, JMG.
One of my favorite parts of The Hitchhiker's Guide series was where Marvin travels back and forth in time so much that he ends up being older than the Universe itself. 😄
This is interesting but the exotic negative energy matter is being worked out of this warp drive model. So it might have some potential but has all of the other issues mentioned. However, I believe that the physics of FTL travel has much room for growth. What we don’t know is far greater than what we know, at this point. We aren’t as knowledgeable as we think we are.
Can’t wait until it’s Spooky Video time!
Just about 18 mins video, played twice now, couldn’t finish before falling asleep. Now playing again trying to sleep. I love JMG for this. He probably has no idea how many people like me benefits from his voice like this. Sleeping is a blessing. God bless JMG for this.
Back in the 70's my advanced calculus teacher took us through new theory on how to integrate over functions that became more and more discrete. Early this century the struggle was with how to discretize manifold theory. These problems have been hard enough that I keep hoping that unifying GR and QM and creating warp drives are difficult only because we don't know enough math. But c being a constant is a big problem.
If the universe is big enough c may not be constant.
I'm not like some theoretical physicist or good at anything math wise but statistics. That said we should have been able to confirm string theory if it were real by now. Pretty sure we aren't making these unicorn technologies without a minimum of 1000 more years of space expansion into the solar system. We aren't leaving without a Dyson sphere.
Nah, the math isn't as important as we think, sure we'll need to figure that out to make any practical use via engineering, or controlling it to go where we want. But the basic of figuring out a process or a mechanic to do the thing is probably alot easier than getting the math right. Using wings to fly, or burning fuel to produce thrust, these are easy concepts that any one can intuit and understand. You don't need to understand how to do the math to figure out how much lift will be produced based on the surface area of wing, or how much thrust it'll take to put a rocket in orbit for most people to understand what's happening there. We don't even really have a basic mechanism to do the space warping.
We need to get past the step there before we can throw math at it, we don't even know what a wing is.
Interesting. In the late ‘70’s, my advanced calculus teacher went over calculations for something more useful. How to determine all the probabilities for bets on a craps table. I got to use it it to make money until a casino found out I was only 17 years old.
c being constant is just an axiom to make the math of relativity work ... Einstein just postulated this and then deduced the rest from it. Remember that physics is only a _model_ of reality, maybe nature works completly differently, but as long as the model gives reproducible results that resonably well match observations, it is good enough.
Time dilation is not any sort of issue for space travel for humanity as a whole. While a lot of people wouldn't want to make some trip with the certainty of never seeing the people they left behind again, there are so, so many who would be fine with it (and some who would even count it as a positive: a free trip into the future? Sign me up) that you could easily man those sorts of journeys. Just look at the programs that have proposed one-way trips to Mars, like Mars One, that got an overwhelming number of applicants even though they had nothing to show to back up their plans.
Yeah, if you’re planning on going to another star then you’ve probably already said your goodbyes and put your affairs in order
One option you missed at the end... We won, that's why we're still here.
Was a hard fight if you see all these craters on Moon and Mars. Mars our home world even got destroyed. But we found replacement in Earth. Was a hard time to get adapted to the high gravity but Bio genetic helped. Finally our Planet core buster weapons did their job and exterminate them on the 5th planet. All what is left there is a cloud of debris circling around the Sun. Sadly Atlantis our most important base on Earth got hit by several of the many fragments created in these explosion. As if they longed in a last grasp to finally destroy us. We are here, battered but not beaten.
It's so wild that time would speed up but you wouldn't notice it. The Universe is a scary, incredible place.. thing..
Tell it to the Hand. Wiser Aliens have figured it out.
In which we...
The Universe is not just an incredible place, it's all the places.
@@Zaluskowsky Liiiiiiive.
Time wouldn't speed up, it would slow down locally for anyone approaching light speed, while everywhere else it remains the same. It is a very interesting concept. We might see future generation do it to explore the future, for anyone young with family it seems scary. But if your old and only have a few years left, it could be worth it.
Thank you, John, for making my pneumonia more bearable!
Pneumonia sucks. Are you in a hospital? Hopefully you can recover at home. I had it a couple of years ago and they made me stay in ICU for two boring, miserably uncomfortable days.
At 10:35 the use of "titanic" and "failing warp drive" in the same sentence conjures up visions of Oceangate's submersible.
Spooky possible answer to the Fermi paradox: we are the winners of a time-war...
Am I completely wrong or is this also a solution to the Fermi paradox like if this time travel weapon is possible and humans are early enough along the spectrum of civilisation. Then we could be living in a “dead universe” where any contemporaries that existed when we develop this technology have been eradicated before they could have existed
It is indeed. He missed that possibility for some reason.
"It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving."
-Cmdr. Montgomery Scott (ST:09)
This reminds me of one of the scariest parts of Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series - when Skade's FTL drive was failing and causing problems with causality
The closest star to our own is aprox 24 trillion miles away, not 6 trillion, which is aprox 1 light year.
Your videos always help me so much with my scifi writing
I read a book called "Redemption Ark". In the book they find out that near light speed travel causes rips in time that destroy causality. Only to be confronted by a race of ancient war machines, made to stamp out those that would attempt such speed. Great book.
Just added it to my want to read list, thanks
@@puckles7585it was a really good book. I was never into sci-fi books, but even so, I read it twice.
Alastair Reynolds in one of the best sf writers currently active. I've loved almost everything he's written. Except for one book that started with space pirates; that just felt too silly and I couldn't get into it.
@randallpetersen9164 I only ever read the one book. No matter what new tech comes out there's always some unknown form of pollution. Always something to punch a hole through.
@@randallpetersen9164 in the realm of sci-fi and space travel, i think space pirates are completely reasonable. i mean we still have modern day pirates, for example. and space is the cosmic version of the sea, what with no ways to enforce terra laws outside of established systems, especially the deeper into space you get. granted they probably wouldn't chant "yar har", wave black flags or have hooks and peg legs. but flying independently, looting ships/space stations/small colonies, siphoning hydrogen/energy reserves, making private accords with other rogue crews, gaining immunity by acting as hired mercenaries, punishing treason with exile, etc, i can not only see happening but would graciously give the term "space pirates".
"The Songs of Distant Earth" is one of my favorite novellas of all time! I know I've had to have mentioned it before, but I love hearing other people mention it because I never do!
This one, for some reason, is particularly haunting.
Distance is only a problem if you have someplace else to be.
If you just want to spread out and get comfy, the galaxy is _roomy_ !
I just hope this isn't the "trigger" tech of the sterilizing aliens.
My hunch is that if it were, we'd never know it. (*shrugs*) Meaning "they" as such wouldn't just show up, they would show up way, way back when there was nothing but bacteria, or RNA, here on the planet, and use their radiation/time weapon on that. Earth would just become a sterile, overcooked mudball like it's always been, same as it ever was. :p
There's no way I'm not watching a video with that title.
I remember in the pre-kurtzman trek, you couldn’t warp in a planetary system because of the warp effects and radiation.
Love from Portugal, love your content!
0:20 minor issue. The distance of 9.44 trillion km is equivalent to the distance one light year. For 4.2 LY it would be 39.7 trillion km.
Americans should pilot future interstellar ships, since it takes trillions fewer miles than kilometers to reach proxima centauri.
That's genius! We'd have to use Celsius so the ship doesn't get too hot though.
Extinction is inevitable. Ride the wave of insignificance into your oblivion.
The Heat Death comes, and only fundamental particles escape it. All life will end.
I would imagine a ship with a warp drive would work something like a ferry that you find around the world. Where they have a propeller at the front as well as the rear. That way you can put the brakes on instead of trying to turn your ship around at high speed to cancel out the velocity and momentum.
We may not have a plan for FTL travel, but we have concepts of plans.
12% of a plan.
Keep real world politics the hell off this channel.
@@deusexaetherait isn’t really a political statement, just a quote
The simple solution when returning from a light speed journey is to fly backwards on the return journey to rewind the clock the 300 years it went forward on the outward journey. 😁
Just curious, why did you pick 300 years? I thought of the same number of years to travel to 😮.
I can see no flaws in this logic
Worked great for Ferris 😂
that’s stupid, then your just be 600 years in the future. what you actually gotta do is fly around the sun backwards really fast to go back in time to when whales still existed
I wonder, could one travel to Proxima Centauri and back before George R. R. Martin finishes "The Winds of Winter " ?
At 12 km/h, yes, but just barely.
15:00 The simpler chonology protection principe is "each time-like loop is always filled by random multiplied junk to the brim, _and always was_ ".
Come for the futuristic weapons conjecture - stay for the Possum updates.
As soon as we start experimenting with FTL drives, I'm sure some alien civilization will be watching... and wipe us out with their radiation time weapon. "Yeah, you've become a little too smart now"
They own earth's sky already. Film an airliner in the daytime with you cellphone set to 4k@60fps. Watch back in slomo and zoom in. You will capture uap this way.
@@michaelford3027 And always remember: The higher the resolution, the smaller they are!
12:00 or so, Boeing is sweating bullets with that analogy.
Thank you John!
The recent "grabby aliens" solution to the Fermi paradox has some interesting implications for time travel as well. One would expect such civilizations to come and grab all of the past as well if they could, so the fact that they haven't seems to imply either that time travel is impossible, or, much more speculatively, that our descendants will be the ones to invent it, and use it to make sure their own past is not interfered with (likely by preventing anyone else from developing time travel).
Grabby aliens was just developed by an economist tho using our past experience within a capitalist human frame of reference. We literally have no idea about human actions outside of one specific economic system let alone an alien race with different philosophical foundations
If the tech exists to send a digital relative along with you, why not send a digital you in the first place.. or a dozen.
Because you wouldn’t get to experience it.
I mean if we could make identical digital copies of people’s consciousnesses then I think the concept of individuality would start to fray at the edges
Sending just digital versions of ourselves wouldn’t guarantee the survival of the species. You would need to at least also include frozen eggs and sperm, or frozen embryos, and have sophisticated robotics to develop and deploy the new humans. Generation ships are technologically simpler.
Why not 3D biological printers that can form humans one cell at a time, then imprint a digital copy of someone's memories into their "virgin" brains?
Big assumption about sociality in aliens that they would even care about missing 'friends' and 'family' from time dilation
I’m guessing other than Hive behavior they would need to be social to work together.
The best part about fake science is that there are no wrong answers 😂
Well, while they wouldn't necessarily have 'friends' or 'family' the way we do, they'd undoubtedly have to have some kind of long term social bonds for them to be a functioning civilization. And having a social bond cut always hurts to some extent, its how nature incentivizes animals to maintain them.
@@davidschaftenaar6530Yeah In earth life. Your lens on this one is kinda obviously a human one. The aliens aren't gonna be anything like life on earth. It is a statistical improbability some other planet has mammals exactly like us on it. Not impossible but so unlikely that it's more likely to find sentient rocks.
@@mikewlazlinski4309 By what mechanism, in form or function, would these rocks of which you speak develop sentience? Why would a crystalline slab be more likely to exhibit consciousness, vs a much more complex organism, regardless of how different it might be from a mammalian Earth species? Why also do you suppose that the principles that determine the form of living creatures on Earth (which across all species all exhibit striking similarities by the way) must be so radically different from those in other galaxies that a rock (all sorts of which I'd imagine are profoundly common throughout the cosmos) would be more likely to be able to communicate with you?
If you traveled to and back from a-Centauri at light speed, the round trip is 8 years earth time, and zero time for the crew.
0:28 Proxima Centauri is not 5.88 trillion miles away, that’s the distance of a light year. 4.2 light years is actually closer to 25 trillion miles. I’m just saying.
Yeah, that didn't sound quite right when I heard it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
Had exactly the same thought myself when I heard it, 6 trillion miles (rounded) is one light year.
1:38 Check out "Tau Zero" by Poul Anderson. The whole story revolves around time dilation on board a relativistic ship. It is from the 70s and not totally up to date on cosmic structure and Bussard ramjets, but still an excellent hard sci-fi book!
really enjoyed the Salvagers... thank you sir!
Hypothesis:
In the future humans develop the time weapon, but it tirns put to be thr "asteroid" that killed the donosaurs, as it failed and crashed to earth.
Can we ride a space sail out of our system propelled by the solar wind and then use the solar wind from the destination star system to break?
Yes you can do that. But the further you get from the sun the less energy you’ll get from solar wind. Eventually you’ll stop accelerating because the sun will be too far away. So you’ll never reach more than a small fraction of the speed of light, but that’s still pretty fast, enough to reach the outer planets in months not years.
I love that you mention Alvar Nunez i read his diaries and they are very brutal.
Thinks if negative matter/mass exists it will be discovered it will be via astronomy as our telescope gets better before the laboratory. Thanks for the video.
Isnt it interesting that we can have full scientific conversations and speculations about alien civilizations in deep space warping spacetime.
In full seriousness and without any giggle factor.
But the second we talk about those same hypothetical civilizations visiting Earth now rather than "in the far future", we giggle and point out that speculation is pointless.
Food for thought. Its okay to discuss if its far away in space and time. Because its less uncomfortable.
Imagine if something like brane cosmology turns out to be related to figuring out how to unify GR & QM and the aliens are doing something more exotic like moving in the 4 + 1 dimensional bulk for “faster than light travel” and alcubierre / warp drives are looked at as primitive ;)
Fun science fiction, I side with rare abiogenesis
John, a warp bubble can be created, and possibly has already.
In a paper published in The European Physical Journal C, a team of engineers and physicists led by Harold White (a physicist formerly of NASA) have discovered the right conditions to theoretically create a small warp bubble in a lab.
According to White, "our detailed numerical analysis of our custom Casimir cavities helped us identify a real and manufacturable nano/microstructure that is predicted to generate a negative vacuum energy density such that it would manifest a real nanoscale warp bubble, not an analog, but the real thing".
Excellent video. I am SO pumped for the spooky season vids!!! I'm already wearing my spooky season shirts and decorating with silly little pumpkin lights and whatnot. Also got cute spooky season bandanas, shirts, and bow ties for our cats.
I literally just listened to the original interview. Spooky coincidence.
saw a uap in 90s that practically sped away into the night sky at crazy speed, that is when i realized that both star wars and star trek had it wrong. You didnt need to prep for a warp jump, they could just accelerate into a jump like how we accelerate our cars into higher gears. also they were moving in a curve, so warping away isnt a straight line constraint like star wars and trek. One could just turn while warp jumping like a car driving on highway that bends. But back on the topic of this video, if that jump they did, didnt give off signal of some sort. Then doubt we will be able to detect it from across the stars. That uap jumped in our atmosphere and was unaffected by atmospheric resistance. Also it made no sound, dead silent.
Spooky videos are back! Yes!
Well the Dilithium in star trek wasn't what made the warp drive itself, it was used to some how control the matter antimatter reaction to provide the energy required. Super heated plasma through the warp coils is what made the warp drive, do the thing. I think lol, the shows don't want to explain too clearly for obvious reasons that they want to write the scenarios for the plot and then try to make it sound like science.
We luuuuuve the spooky universe in which we liiiive. !!!
If this is the foreshadowing, can't wait for the full on Spooky Season!!
A fleeting ide for a Sci Fi story just hit me... a society has light speed travel. And so instead of executing their criminals they send them off at light speed for certain sentences before they come back and so the idea would be "Let's not deal with them - let some future society deal with them."
My brain is buzzzing from all this knowledge
17:08 or we are the Time Lords keeping every other intelligent species away from the space age.
….they call us, Doctor.
Oh new firming paradox solution! We’re evil
@@RyanBrianthe most believable solution unfortunately
You know it's silly. Imagine people in Ancient Greece sitting around fire and theorizing - how some abstract civilization might be traveling to the moon right now - oh, they mus make big wings and flap them like birds! - and those Greeks would every night look at the moon expecting to see silhouette of human-shaped birds...
Hey, at least the Greeks understood and saw the importance in fundamental things like humility, beauty, harmonics, and taught them to their children. Things people today are entirely ignorant of or scoff at, while they're too busy entertaining their own fantasies about how superior their modern knowledge and rocket fuel are, compared to those silly Greeks for example.
We and greeks aren't same
Well damn, think you stumbled upon a Great Filter with “Time Wars”.
Or a Fermi paradox solution. We won the time war.
I thought of something like this back when I knew a lot less about light speed effects, but the problem I couldn't get around was the accumulation of radiation as you travel. I know you covered it briefly, but for everyone else it's basically things moving at the speed of light will gain energy from the photons they impact without the ability to re-emit them, that's what John is talking about with the radiation problem for that type of FTL drive.
Anyway, I'm not sure if this would be a problem for a spacetime bubble since it would essentially be a pocket separated from the rest of space time. Photons might just follow the curve around the bubble without being absorbed or dragged along with the bubble.
The other part is if I'm wrong because I'm missing something, but such a drive would be a one way trip. The object leaving the bubble would be irradiated along with anything around it, so it's application is exclusively as a weapon.
There's another issue that distance creates. Even if you could come back and know that your friends and family are still alive, the loss of contact, even with fairly good communications means most, and even yourself will be different people. We see this with people who go abroad for a decade or more. Although they still have all their friends on facebook, their lives have changed and the things you had in common are long gone.
Well my mind is officially blown!💥💥💥
Someone set up us the negative energy density material !! Make your time !
It s you!
Iron Maiden put it well in Speed of Light: “Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won't save us
At the speed of light
Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won't save us
We slip into the night”
The first person to ever think about a firework and draw it on a napkin could have thought that this idea -if scaled up - could be used to transport cargo and people over huge distances one day. If only some seemingly insumountable problems could be overcome. They wouldn't know that it's just engineering challenges.
Petition for John Michael Godier to be renamed "Jean Michel Godier". It reminds me of the sci-fi feeling I get from the French synth composers from the 1980s and 1990s.
Splitting an absurd amount of photons. Then 2 options. 1 fuse them to create a white hole, which will also create a black hole. Or, a tornado of them.
"warp bubbles" are exactly what we see on UAPs
You've done it again with this particular video, John! really interesting, kinda reminds me of Remembrance of Earth's Past sci fi trilogy.
Gravitational waves
Yuuuuge Gravitational waves
The Biggest!
Thank you for the video now wake me up when my cryopod gets to Triton
I really like this channel, especially the writing and speculation. I don't have any trouble following along, but always end up asking, "So, what's the point?"
"Or in the future, we are extinct..."
That is one of the scariest thoughts ever said.
The scarier thought is that the reason we are alone is because we won the time war. And our species is guilty of omnicide.
I’m telling you man, your pfp has to be a cropped photo from the back of your death metal band’s first album. Hahaha you look like me but you’re like, really friggin smart 😂 cheers man, I’ve loved your videos and narration style for many years.
You misspoke the distance. 5.88 trillion miles is 1 light year. You must multiply that by 4.2. Which would be 24.69 trillion light years away. Great episode though 😊
Whoa! That's half way across the multiverse.
24.69 trillion miles.
“24.69 trillion light years” you meant “miles” correct?
24.69 trillion MILES
Thanks for clearing that up. Good to know if I plan a trip in the near future.
Time slows down as you reach the speed of light. Time reverses after you PASS the speed of light.
9:13 Pretty sure Mars has unnaturally high levels of a specific isotope of radioactive xenon in it's atmosphere...
Humanity won the time war.
A bit of the essence of the Philadelphia Experiment, eh????
Lol. Imagine you have an incredible civilization. And the first time you are detected by someone else is when you have an electromechanical failure. 😆
Universal embarrassment.
Agent Daniels
Your sound is sooo good compared to other channels 💪
Love your content 💪
Cool spaceships!
Meeting other humanoid aliens was always a dream of mine.
One of the saddest day in my life was when I found out how vast and distant the stars are.
I am increasingly convinced humans should stop emitting any signals and begin work on disguising our biosphere.
Very excited for Spooky October. Hopefully, we get another video about more spooky thimgs we've detected within the solar system or something like that.
An excellent exploration of interstellar distances and FTL.
Fantastic video, John! Thanks!!! 😊
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Putting a LIGO detector in space would be neat, but it's hard to upgrade for cases like this where we discover after the fact there are frequency bands we need upgrades to listen to. What about putting a LIGO detector under the ocean (like SOSUS) or in a deep mine (like they do with neutrino detectors)? Those would be easier to get to for construction, upgrades, or maintenance, and neither environment has trucks in it.