Reach Stars 1200 Light Years Away in 59 Days

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We don't have to wait 1200 years for to for the particle to get there because Kip Thorne told us that the wormhole mouth has become a time machine because of this relativistic time dilction thing. So what we've actually done is constructed a time machine that connects the uh the wormhole mouth on the earth 59 days after its launch to the wormhole mouth at the other 1200 years later uh to the wormhole mouth at the other end when it arrives at the star. So we have a space-time link which allows us to get the star to the stars in a hell of a big hurry. Um, [clears throat] okay. Now, suppose you uh manage to get to Kepler uh 32E is or you satisfied with just a flyby that goes through the the the system at the speed of light. You presumably get a little data that way, but that's not exactly what you'd like. And so, as I was uh saying earlier, >> this is going to be the last main point of this, which he's going to bring home right now. Okay. So, he's he's laid out wormholes are definitely possible. From a physics standpoint, no question. Even your normie academic Neil Degrass Tyson, Bill Ny the science guy, people have to admit that the math checks out. The question is, as everybody always wonders, what about retrocausality? So, we already heard Stephven Hawking and others believe that there's going to be chronology protection. the universe. If you try to go change the past, the universe will step in and make sure that it's not possible. However that is, we leave that for your imagination. But for whatever reason, you will never choose the door that were to change history. That can never be chosen. Nature doesn't allow it. So, he's going to explain what this means. And he and he explains it in a way that I really really really like. Here you go. uh by putting by by uh sending momentum particle momentum carrying particles either e either protons or heavy ions through the wormhole in various directions you can steer. So in principle you could do a grazing collision with the stellar atmosphere or a planetary atmosphere and have a whole lot of stuff uh coming through the wormhole which would mouse which would slow it down. Uh the problem is that it would also be gaining mass a at the same time. And so uh probably what you'd like to do is to take the stuff that's coming through and send it right back through in the other direction and and slow start exploring and colonizing and whatever else you you wanted to do. So this is a path to the open it up and walk through and you and start start exploring and colonizing and whatever else you you wanted to do. So this is a path to the to the stars that would allow you to get there in [clears throat] in a very big hurry. Um um okay. Now what about chronology protection? Stephen Hawking was worrying worrying a lot about that. Is are we if if we try to do this is our wormhole going to explode in our face or something like that. And the answer is no. Uh the uh legal wormhole link has to be space-like. If it becomes timelike that that's when you get into trouble with hawking. >> Uh and since the uh wormhole [clears throat] uh connection to to the star is less than maybe I should explain. Um this is a manowski diagram. Anything any trajectory that goes like this less than 45 degrees is called space-like. Any trajectory that goes this way is called timelike. And anything like this is called lightlike. And the um what one would like to do is have your trajectory for the particle u be below the lightlike line in order to in order to preserve cause all these things. And indeed that that is done. So there's not any real problem in terms of of coronology protection and sending wormholes out to the stars in various directions. What might be a problem is if your colony decided to send their own wormhole someplace else and started making connections that could produce time like loops and >> Okay. Wow. He just said the same thing that I said two years ago that we talked about at the beginning of this live stream. He said you'll run into a problem if your colony So you can send a colony you can send a wormhole 59 days 1,200 light years away and you can show up on the other side. But now the problem is if you make a wormhole on the other side going back. Now you've got two sleds that are both going you got two uh slides that are both going downhill. You got a problem here. You're going to have an issue where you're going to be able to go back to Earth and appear on Earth before you left on Earth. Now you're going to have retrocausality assuming that this is all working the way that we think. As long as we stay below the light like line, there's no retrocausality. So, how would you imagine this? The way to imagine this is that as long as we don't try to go back in time with our teleportation, as long as we're we're all good, as long as when this plane disappears, it reappears after it disappeared. We're good. No causality can be broken if that happens. The problem is this. If this plane disappears over here, but before it disappeared, it reappeared over here. So in theory, the plane was in two locations at the same time. That's not possible. Can't have that because in theory now that plane and those people could have been seen in two different locations at the same exact time. shouldn't be possible. So, we have to stay below the light like line and the like like curve. That's how you want to think about that. It's not quite like breaking the light barrier because we can break the light barrier without retrocausality. Um, we can't break the timelike. when we we push too far on the timeline like that's where we're pushing back in time as opposed to keeping within the current keeping causality uh the same. >> So you would have to make a law that the that it was absolutely forbidden for your colony worlds to to produce their own wormholes um or to use. [laughter] No, but it's the chronology protection. I see it more like an action or a principle that that entropy must increase or that >> well it's basically that that there should was taking the point of view that there can be no timelike loops. Okay. And if you made one of these going out here, it would it would not be a time like loop. But what Thorne and Morrison company were talking about was going out and then coming back. And if you have another wormhole length that goes from out here to over here, then you get a timelike loop and then then you get into trouble with >> and it's not this is where it gets confused. It's not exactly like saying that you're going lower than the speed of light. I don't I'm trying to think of how to phrase it correctly. I think the way to phrase it would be that you don't the distance that you travel doesn't appear to break. Well, no, even that's possible too. It's like if you imagine you were a third-party observer in the MH370 situation, in theory, there should never be a situation where you're seeing the plane in two different locations at the same time. That's how I think about it. It's a little weird because the plane in theory can travel faster than the speed of light because that how we calculate that's just the distance divided by the time. So from the third party observer perspective, it will look like the plane is moving faster than the speed of light because it just disappeared here and appeared over here. But it's not going back in time. That would be the difference. It's a little weird. There's some edge cases there. And that's what John Kramer is saying is that you can't just think of it in terms of if you can teleport, it's automatically retrocausality. There's a little nuance to how it works. And this is important. If you are if you want to understand general relativity and you want to be able to make warp drives and wormholes, we have to be thinking about these edge cases. Have to be thinking about them. saying is that it's not a question of preventing these colonies from interconnecting themselves that they are just not able to. >> If they tried to interconnect themselves, there would be there would be problems. Yes. If Hawkings right if if he's wrong, then you start getting causality violations. [laughter] Okay. So uh in summary uh assuming that stable wormholes exist and that we can master the physics and engineering and of microscopic wormholes we may may a be able to use them to rapidly explore the stars and colonize uh interesting extra solar planets that have been turning up lately. U the time spanning properties of relativistic wormholes can be used to reach distant star systems in a very short time or on the order of days, weeks and months. Uh the wormhole time link connects the present where the wormhole grows from which the wormhole is launched to the future where a star is reached so that you can get there without having to wait until uh at the speed of light the object travels there. [clears throat] Um this isn't a new idea. I uh let me say where I this came from. I I was giving a talk about wormholes at a science fiction convention a number of years ago and one of the people in the audience asked me what happens if you look through the wormhole. What do you see if it's if it's traveling fast? And it occurred to me that this is this is what this is the way it works. And I went home and worked it out and sure enough there's a this is the way relativity applies to wereholes. Um and so I write a uh science fact column in analog science fiction magazine 2,000 words and um I guess I I just submitted column number 198 and one of my columns in 1990 discussed this idea. Um, I should also mention that if this idea is not worth anything else, uh, I was able to use it as the basis of a science fiction novel that I recently completed called Fermy's Question, which is the the sequel to my, uh, second novel, Einstein's Bridge. So, and it turns out that's the next point. Um, [laughter] [clears throat and cough] um, yeah, this is >> so this is the last part of this. And, uh, so what did we learn here? He says we can make wormholes. This is not new science. It's old science that's been rediscovered. He says we can use this and time dilation to get extremely far distances in short periods of time. And for the person in the chat said this is very deep, but it does make sense. This is why I love John Kramer. To me, I don't like listening to the physicists who it almost sounds like they're trying to confuse you. Like they'll use all these physicists names and proper names or theories that they know you don't know as opposed to just explaining things in a way that makes logical sense to people. John Kramer explains it in a way that can make sense to people. He explains it and he does explain the the the actual physics and the history of it and what have you, but he explains it in a way where you know you can imagine it in your mind in terms of the Fermy paradox. Is is some advanced civilization already using relativistic wormholes to explore the galaxy and our solar system? Well, maybe so. uh there are unexplained cosmic ray events called centauro events that c I guess they come from the uh the const there's coming from the direction of the constellation centaurus uh and uh any particle we know about pro including electrons uh if if it form if it's accelerator or protons or heavy nuclear whatever that forms a cosmic ray has not only electromagnetic interactions when it hits the upper atmosphere but it also has strong interactions that make ions and so forth. Don't you know you might think that electrons don't because they're weak at weekly interaction, but they make plenty of pions and stuff at at slap when they accelerate electron beams. So [clears throat] these particular cosmic rays coming in from the at very high energies from outer space show only electromagnetic interactions and no evidence of of strong strong or weak interactions at all. Um and so that's exactly the way a charged wormhole would look if it hit the upper atmosphere. So maybe we should go out to Argentina where they have this big um [laughter] where they where [clears throat] they have this big cosmic ray telescope and track these central events down to the ground and go and pick them up and bring them home [laughter] which which is more or less what the protagonist in my novel do. >> Wow. So what is he saying? He's saying we are going to see the aliens. We're just not looking the right way. He's saying I had never even heard of Centauro events. Sounds like we got a new rabbit hole to dig into on Friday. I had looked into fast radio bursts. There's a couple different weird astronom uh astrological phenomenon that aren't well understood. Doesn't mean they're aliens. Doesn't mean they're technological signatures, but my guess is there is one of these things is definitely a technological signature. And we are just too stupid to realize it because we are basically the Native Americans using smoke signals while everybody else has figured out electromagnetism. Let him finish here. >> Okay. So I I as I told Heidi maybe I can catch us up a little bit because I didn't really have a whole hour talk and so this is the end and [laughter] >> so I can stop here and ask if there are any questions. >> Okay. Bravo, sir. That is a great presentation.