How humanity can travel 'incredibly fast' in space explored

[Music] as incredible as it may seem there will be a time and it may be closer than you think when we live on other worlds the moon mars and in the space between and when that day comes just as always our children will look with curiosity across these new horizons with a desire to go further and to explore what lies beyond but beyond mars the distances between worlds grow immensely even within our own solar system and become truly vast in between stars if we ever want to reach out across these distances we need to learn how to go fast using our current knowledge of physics and engineering we could build nuclear locomotives to take humans to all the worlds in our solar system but a starship powered with a nuclear heart aimed for even our closest star proxima centauri would have to harbor hundreds of generations of people all living their entire lives aboard before reaching its destination four and a quarter light years away it would take two years just to reach the orbit of saturn and another 2 000 years to reach proxima centauri we need to be able to go faster [Music] with our current knowledge of physics but with engineering we have yet to develop we can imagine a propulsion system with a sun for a heart a fusion engine that could accelerate a starship up to five percent of the speed of light this ship could cross the orbit of saturn in six months and reached proxima centauri in just over a century but if we want to traverse interstellar distances in less than a human lifetime we have to go incredibly fast the universe has shown us that this can be done by altering the scale of space itself and we are working to develop new understandings of physics to learn how this might be controlled if we could construct a starship with a propulsion system that decreases space in front of it and expands space behind it this ship could cross enormous distances effectively faster than the speed of light such a ship would reach from mars to saturn in just a matter of minutes and be able to reach proxima centauri in less than six months [Music] from there there are no limits to where we could go perhaps one day humanity will look up at an alien night sky and strain to find the pale yellow dot that is our sun our home and know for the first time as we look back on ourselves that we are not alone in the universe this journey starts today you

Channel: VideoFromSpace

Views: 11,074

Keywords: Limitless Space Institute, fusion, how long, nuclear, proxima centauri, space travel, spaceflight, speed, speed of light, sspaleta

Id: X6pjb0SfSIw

Length: 4min 39sec (279 seconds)

Published: Mon May 02 2022