The more I listen to this guy the more I appreciate how he has one foot firmly planted in the cutting edge science of today, while the other is stepping out in the the distant future.
Since we'd be able to communicate with the probes once they reach the stars, it'd be cool if we could instruct the probes to build robot bodies with empty robot brains on extrasolar planets. Then (since by then we might all have robot brains ourselves) we could just email our consciousness into those empty robot brains, instead of physically traveling there ourselves. It'd be a lot easier and we'd be able to go at about the speed of light.
Lol. Eh but really, they want to stick AI in them or something else like whatever it would be would enjoy an endless journey into a black void. They better figure out how to break the laws of physics first before they go torturing something.
It's very plausible, earth being a hotspot for life, an alien architect type probe, could of determined which species to modify it's DNA, much how trees do. Little tiny needle like probes targeted different types of species humans being the ones who dominated eventually. Some could have killed entire species, some could have just mutated with no intelligence, but it's obvious how primates are ideal. So now we are pompous bathing primates. No one can deny the nature of living things, or mother nature if you prefer. Every cell in your body has one goal, whether it knows of it or not, or whether they have any sense of victory vs defeat as we do in the collective form, their sole purpose is to survive. No matter the cost, you die and decay is a process on where those cells are still trying to survive by simply put, but not such a simple explanation, consuming themselves in order to attain energy. Think of opening and closing your hands rapidly, eventually it starts to burn, that means the muscles have ran out of oxygen and are trying to essentially breathe. The more you do that, the more resilient your hands become. I guess what I wanted to get to with the nature of all living things or the force as some call it, is pissed off, COVID-19 is like a fail safe, a zoonotic virus which is targeting us specifically, meaning it jumped a few species before getting to us. That's not the only nuke here, but given that we've created the perfect scenarios for zoonotic viruses to do they thang, it could've been a lot worse, or what else that's worse could be brewing. We done pissed off mother nature, so we are failing miserably as a seed to propagate seeding the universe. Right now we are a virus with a credit card and shoes.
When I think about God, angels and Jesus the bunny, I think of an advanced civilization. I believe God created funny grass and funny shrooms to propagate our evolution. We have not stopped evolving. Many are born without wisdom teeth, me being one of those for example. Think about laughter or sense of humor. In the evolution of society it's a way to resolve conflicts. Like the cliché where someone gets hurt, everyone stares in discomfort and then everyone busts out laughing, conflict resolved in some sense, unlike lions. We can resolve differences at our own expense thru humor, bashing stereotypes ect. I see how it could have all started with some very high monkeys laughing their assses off. Laughter makes us unique across the planet, or the sense of humor, it's a social root that permits the resolution of conflicts.
The fossil record clearly shows that humans evolved from apes and share a common ancestor with chimpanzees. A seed propagation hypothesis does not fit the known evidence.
Dr. Kaku has spoken about this a while back when he talked about nano bots being sent out in all directions (replicating themselves using what material they could to move on in a sphere of sensors) allowing us to gather as much information as possible. I'm glad prominent figures have taken this idea more public broadening the discussion.
Michio Kaku i have heard of quantum mechanics and what it imply s;That on the small scale of electrons you can not know exactly where the electron is, when not looking at it just the percentage it will be there but this is my point does the string work in the same way is the string played completely randomly or is there away of working it out a small percentage that can be scaled up to work out a more accurate percentage.
He said Mars when in the movie the black monoliths appeared on prehistoric Earth, the moon, in orbit around Jupiter & in that weird alien bedroom. I'll cut him some slack since I'm sure he's forgotten more than I'll ever learn.
Y lo había dicho entonces que el Modelo de Von Newman, el estándar de modelo de nuestro ordenador, también explicaba debmasiado el teletransporte, cosa que puede ocurrir con lo que aquí se explica del efecto Faraday, que no es un movimiento en c, sino un efecto que por teletransporte se comporta como atajo espacial y que se confunde por la velocidad como atajo temporal.
I think, a saucer, is capable of travelling to far places of the nearest galaxy, just like the ufo space ship. Inside that saucer, is a doughnut shape platform, and in that doughnut shape, were air or wind absorbing machines placed in the 360 degrees of the doughnut that can generate electricity or power. The doughnut is double hull; first, the wind will be sucked in the inner hull and be delivered to the second hull, then it will pass again to the inner hull. First a battery will power the suction machines, but later on the power converted from the wind will charge the battery. So the goal is to pump air into that cylindrical and let the air vacum machines suck and suck and suck in a circular-cyclindrical pattern, another goal is to to maintain the wind inside the cyclinders of the doughnut. And the generator or power source to where the power is converted, is in the whole of the doughnut that can bring power to a vacum type thruster or maybe propellers. I think thats an infinite power design, that can reach galaxies.
How does your nanoprobe slow down at its target when it’s traveling at close to the speed of light? That requires just as much energy as was required to speed it up.
Ok , so you accelerate nano ships to near light speed , how do they slow down to enter orbits and land ? Would these nano ships have on-board propulsion ?
Wouldn't need it most likely... Even when comets and asteroids burn up in our atmosphere, remains on the nano level would still remain and intact. Same, I would imagine, for planets without that cushioning atmosphere to slow the "seeds" down. Despite the type of impacts, *some* of the nano bots would survive, and then begin to replicate themselves and begin the process. Theoretically, it'd only take the survival of 1 of them to be successful.
You would need propulsion that's true, but less then you might think. Its possible to use the stars magnetosphere to slow down from near light speed if your that small. After that its minor alterations and hope you don't get pulverised on impact.
I have a question : how do they slow down ? I'm no astrophysicist, but the little I know about mechanical engineering and material science tells me a probe impacting any planetary body "near the speed of light" isn't going to be in shape to do any replicating after impact.
I came here after I played Grey Goo. Realized it wasn't only science fiction. One of the cutscenes involves Multi-user Mainframe or MUM explaining the details of the Von Neumann probe in its quest of finding intelligent life and exploring other galaxies beyond Earth's reach.
First time I'm ever going to argue with Michio Kaku, that wasn't the plotline for the Monolith's. They weren't factories, they were essentially monitoring stations with a whole bunch of extra fun abilities, further, they weren't really sent out at random which is kind of what the secondary stages here sound like. That said, this nanoship sounds awesome (still doesn't get me travelling through space though)
Wow, it's a great idea! What about sending one to the nearest star, make fotos and send them back to earth. We than can look at the planets and see whether they are human friendly. If they are, this will motivate a lot of people here, so researchers start to develop ships for humans. Such a nanoship will get there by 4 years and the fotos will go back also for 4 years. So in 8 years we will have knowledge about planets orbiting around our nearby star!
Apparently his main concern is outerspace colonization with whatever suitable. My primary question would be: how would the ship itself deaccelerate should it reach a feasible planet?
How do they stop? I don't think they could withstand an impact at nearly the speed of light. Interesting idea though if all problems can be solved. (Maybe a small solar sail?) Aiming and steering might be necessary too, to not just hit send them into empty space (but that should be far easier than stopping). If it is "only" almost the speed of light with no shortcuts, we probably would have to stay within our galaxy or the stars we are shooting for are long dead when the ships reach them.
Imbedding information into mushroom spores would probably work as a single mushroom produces millions of spores that could survive in the vacuum of space. Now directing these spores in a particular direction is another story.
Well you see, the Soviet Union is still working to this day to add antimatter organelles to those mushroom cells. Your a little behind on the news, it's to be expected.
I would hardly say humanity is stagnating, the rate technology is evolving is insane. The difference in sending someone to Mars, just 43 years after managing to get people to the Moon is pretty ambitious :P
That is quite fascinating method to use in space exploration. It uses almost the same principles of seeding life: first you send a nanobot, with all the necessary blueprint for development, then you accelerate it to near the speed of light and then at the place it uses the given codes and blueprints to build itself up, create macrobot out of millions of nanobots, and begin the exploration. Actually, if we ever will master quantum tunneling on macro scale, these nanobots could build quantum gates
What's the point of sending a large, mobile hunk of metal to Mars? How is that exploration? How did they trick it into sending pictures back, or examining the landscape for future needs? Does this technique apply to nanoships too? I don't know, but asking questions is fun. Thank you.
As much as i love listening to Michio Kaku, i would like to know what we really are able to do. Everything he says seems to come straight out of a sci-fi comic book, which satisfies my nerd needs, but it makes it really hard to believe that one day we might actually be able to do this stuff. I would like to know what human beings will accomplish in 30, 40, even 50 years, with a little luck i'll still be around and able to see it.
Though I can appreciate the intended comparison, I can't help but have my mind literalize certain parts that probably do not apply. I imagine the needle like Michio described, but then for it to behave like a plant I see them all standing on end, perhaps mounted to a weak electromagnetic field, so they resemble a dandelion once it's seeds are fully grown, and then shooting out, like mini super-computer shrapnel from a grenade. Terrifying.
terraform the planet to make it habitable. combine this idea with the molecular assembler idea and the tiny needles can convert the matter on that planet to raw materials to make factories and redesign the planet to make it habitable so that when we do get go go to that planet we can actually survive on it. we can also use these probes to search for other potential elements and help us with getting there. the possibilities are endless
Small correction must be made, the obelisk in 2001 A Space Odyssey was on the Moon not Mars with the larger obelisk in orbit of Jupiter (in the film) or Saturn (in the book).
Interesting video! This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light and time! This theory is based on just two postulates 1. Is that the quantum wave particle function Ψ or probability function represents the forward passage of time itself 2. Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w-function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event within our own ref-frame that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual!
i think when it comes to life, "success" is defined as "ability to multiply as much as possible in a unit of time." in that sense, viruses are the most successful.
Im always amazed as how people are so mechanic (ships, robots, etc.) as opposed to making something organic (human, fungi, etc) We're limiting ourselves with this path.
The Slylandro already tried this. The first probe they sent out had a single programming error and it started destroying everything it encountered in order to replicate itself. Look it up.
i dont think that's what he meant, he said it could be a way to send something far enough with much less energy that it would need with "convential" means. they can get out there, then assemble themselves or cooperate somehow to build something else, which then could be usefull to us. if sent at a few light years away, i think we could wait for a transmission back;
In Arthur C. Clarke's novel The Fountains of Paradise the extraterrestrial "Starglider probe is an example of a Bracewell probe. In Clark's story The Sentinel, later adapted into the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 'Monolith' appears to be a Bracewell probe placed on the moon to ensure that only a civilization capable of spaceflight would be able to discover it."
yes it does one lands on a planet and builds 100 more, they go to another 100 places and build 100 more each, which then go to places to build 100 more each and so on, forever expanding the range, and number and therefore information sent back. If this process is repeated you end up with a colossal amount of exploration and information without the need of ever leaving the planet, simple really
Ok, this has actually got me thinking. The idea that Michio Kaku presents in this video is that we can explore space by building very small, self-replicating robots/nano machines that get shot into space by the millions or even billions to then land on planets with materials and environmental conditions which would allow the nano machines to get the required materials and produce energy to replicate themselves and thus build all kinds of other things But there is something that Michio doesn't mentioN: Since it is possible that everytime a nano probe replicates itself there are very very small differences from how the material is cut or put together or how its shaped (comparable to how a bullet has marks on it that allow you to determine from which gun it was shot) or how the computer chip is propgrammed and put together... wouldnt it be possible that over time these nano robots would gradually change over the course of millions of generations? And then, the central-programming of these robots would gradually change to make them differentiate between certain types of robots and ally with those robots who have a central-programm similar to their own, because doing so will make the programming variation which causes their behavior to be more common. And as some of the robots become increasingly different from one another, it could become beneficial for Robot Type X to destroy Robot Type Y and then take their metals and silicon to use it to replicate themselves instead, because those copies of themselves will have higher similarity to them than the robots they just destroyed. I think it is very obvious what kind of question this poses.
This was the first thing that came to my mind, I could not help but to think that over time variations in materials and errors in programming would cause future generations to evolve beyond what they were originally programmed for. I think the creation of such devices would probably be our lasting mark on the Milky Way.
we are assuming that these civilizations didn't learn how to program organic cells to do their desires.. WE could be an evolved von neumann Probe. they could have sent both robotic and dormant organic cells to all planets in the Goldilocks zone in the known universe. odds of this happening isn't low enough to not scare this shit out of me thinking about it.
lithium2370 Still, isn't it fascinating what we're learning might be possible, and how close we're getting to it? Makes me mad I'm not able to live for the next 1-2 thousand years, just to get a glimpse of the possibilities. Almost makes me want to believe in ghosts and become one. LMFAO.
The designs could be stored digitally, then they do not copy themselves they produce copies of the digital design. And with programming you can keep the first few generation on hand to correct any errors that might arise. We would not be limited by natural processes in the way real life is.
Depends what the probes are programmed to do, or build. If they could send/receive data to/from us here on earth, and could be re-programmed at will, we could discover the means to create wormholes, then program them to build us a wormhole generator on a distant moon, and we could travel there..
I agree with almost everything he says. But at 2:30 he makes a grievous mistake. The MONOLITH is found on the MOON, there is another MONOLITH 2km tall at JUPITER. If your gonna quote one of my favourite movies, get it right ^_^
The monolith was actually on the Moon in the movie, It may have been on Mars in the book, however. *Spoiler alert for 2010: The Year We Made Contact* In the sequel the monoliths flood Jupiter, turning it into a second sun. Perhaps Mr. Kaku could devote an episode of BT to the consequences of such an occurrence.
what about the object that passed very close to earth back in between 1990 and 2000, it had its own gravitational pull and seemed to not be affected by earths gravity at all, it had a metallic shine to it as light reflected of it and to this day has not been traced back to any space program and space debris. It status is Unidentified non man made object. The probe is now on an elliptical path and is due to return to earth in 2017
I'd like to point out that in the movie 2001 space odyssey, the monolith does not land on Mars. As Mr. Kaku has claimed. Rather it lands here on earth and then devouring Jupiter later on in the movie. Just a small correction
But it could build space stations on planets so that you could eventually land at each one in stages, or find a planet that can sustain life. Thus giving a definate direction and coordinates.
When it comes to Biology, my professor knows more about it more than me. But when it comes to Physics, it's the other way around. Thanks to Michio Kaku.
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The more I listen to this guy the more I appreciate how he has one foot firmly planted in the cutting edge science of today, while the other is stepping out in the the distant future.
I love Michio Kaku. He activates my imagination and desire to learn more about science.
you have been geekified. :)
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Since we'd be able to communicate with the probes once they reach the stars, it'd be cool if we could instruct the probes to build robot bodies with empty robot brains on extrasolar planets. Then (since by then we might all have robot brains ourselves) we could just email our consciousness into those empty robot brains, instead of physically traveling there ourselves. It'd be a lot easier and we'd be able to go at about the speed of light.
Creating nano spaceships is the easy part. Finding people small enough to pilot them is the real challenge 🤔.
Good question. I assume that nanoships will be able to assemble into larger megastructures when needed (and even healing themselves).
Our minds will go on these ships.
Lol. Eh but really, they want to stick AI in them or something else like whatever it would be would enjoy an endless journey into a black void. They better figure out how to break the laws of physics first before they go torturing something.
People in Taiwan are very small, so maybe they could do it!
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What if our race was the seed propagated from another humanoid race from many years ago that had this same idea and went through with it...
I would say they've failed miserably.
It's very plausible, earth being a hotspot for life, an alien architect type probe, could of determined which species to modify it's DNA, much how trees do. Little tiny needle like probes targeted different types of species humans being the ones who dominated eventually. Some could have killed entire species, some could have just mutated with no intelligence, but it's obvious how primates are ideal. So now we are pompous bathing primates.
No one can deny the nature of living things, or mother nature if you prefer. Every cell in your body has one goal, whether it knows of it or not, or whether they have any sense of victory vs defeat as we do in the collective form, their sole purpose is to survive. No matter the cost, you die and decay is a process on where those cells are still trying to survive by simply put, but not such a simple explanation, consuming themselves in order to attain energy. Think of opening and closing your hands rapidly, eventually it starts to burn, that means the muscles have ran out of oxygen and are trying to essentially breathe. The more you do that, the more resilient your hands become.
I guess what I wanted to get to with the nature of all living things or the force as some call it, is pissed off, COVID-19 is like a fail safe, a zoonotic virus which is targeting us specifically, meaning it jumped a few species before getting to us. That's not the only nuke here, but given that we've created the perfect scenarios for zoonotic viruses to do they thang, it could've been a lot worse, or what else that's worse could be brewing. We done pissed off mother nature, so we are failing miserably as a seed to propagate seeding the universe. Right now we are a virus with a credit card and shoes.
Mother Nature is trying to kill us = mind blown!
When I think about God, angels and Jesus the bunny, I think of an advanced civilization. I believe God created funny grass and funny shrooms to propagate our evolution. We have not stopped evolving. Many are born without wisdom teeth, me being one of those for example.
Think about laughter or sense of humor. In the evolution of society it's a way to resolve conflicts. Like the cliché where someone gets hurt, everyone stares in discomfort and then everyone busts out laughing, conflict resolved in some sense, unlike lions. We can resolve differences at our own expense thru humor, bashing stereotypes ect.
I see how it could have all started with some very high monkeys laughing their assses off.
Laughter makes us unique across the planet, or the sense of humor, it's a social root that permits the resolution of conflicts.
The fossil record clearly shows that humans evolved from apes and share a common ancestor with chimpanzees. A seed propagation hypothesis does not fit the known evidence.
Dr. Kaku has spoken about this a while back when he talked about nano bots being sent out in all directions (replicating themselves using what material they could to move on in a sphere of sensors) allowing us to gather as much information as possible. I'm glad prominent figures have taken this idea more public broadening the discussion.
i could listen to this guy's theories all day and never get bored XD
Michio Kaku is the reason I subscribed to BigThink, while I don't see eye to eye on everything he says his ideas are still great.
Michio Kaku i have heard of quantum mechanics and what it imply s;That on the small scale of electrons you can not know exactly where the electron is, when not looking at it just the percentage it will be there but this is my point does the string work in the same way is the string played completely randomly or is there away of working it out a small percentage that can be scaled up to work out a more accurate percentage.
You sir just sent chills down my spine well done!
Every time michio has a new video, I'm always so excited!
I love this guys :D
Is it me, or Michio Kaku's videos are getting even better?
Michio Kaku and other fellow physicists are the only reason I have hope for a better future. Go ahead boys, rock'n roll!
"Quantity has a quality all of its own"
that was what happened in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
Man, Michio Kaku really is smart.
He said Mars when in the movie the black monoliths appeared on prehistoric Earth, the moon, in orbit around Jupiter & in that weird alien bedroom. I'll cut him some slack since I'm sure he's forgotten more than I'll ever learn.
This is why I subscribed to this channel. I love this stuff.
Does anyone have a video, or link to the conference that Dr. Kaku attended?
they just have to keep bringing michio kaku back, i think he's the best and most popular speaker for big think
Y lo había dicho entonces que el Modelo de Von Newman, el estándar de modelo de nuestro ordenador, también explicaba debmasiado el teletransporte, cosa que puede ocurrir con lo que aquí se explica del efecto Faraday, que no es un movimiento en c, sino un efecto que por teletransporte se comporta como atajo espacial y que se confunde por la velocidad como atajo temporal.
So you get these needle sized ships up to near the speed of light... How do you slow them down for landing?
Big question... How do you slow this "needle ship" down at the destination?
For me, this is new thinking. How nice to have my speculations turned on their head. Fascinating.
I think, a saucer, is capable of travelling to far places of the nearest galaxy, just like the ufo space ship. Inside that saucer, is a doughnut shape platform, and in that doughnut shape, were air or wind absorbing machines placed in the 360 degrees of the doughnut that can generate electricity or power. The doughnut is double hull; first, the wind will be sucked in the inner hull and be delivered to the second hull, then it will pass again to the inner hull. First a battery will power the suction machines, but later on the power converted from the wind will charge the battery. So the goal is to pump air into that cylindrical and let the air vacum machines suck and suck and suck in a circular-cyclindrical pattern, another goal is to to maintain the wind inside the cyclinders of the doughnut. And the generator or power source to where the power is converted, is in the whole of the doughnut that can bring power to a vacum type thruster or maybe propellers. I think thats an infinite power design, that can reach galaxies.
Another big question, how do you stop them from replicating once they have built the factory?
How does your nanoprobe slow down at its target when it’s traveling at close to the speed of light? That requires just as much energy as was required to speed it up.
Pero no es el efecto Faraday, sino en el efecto Voight, cosa que si no mal recuerdo también me había confundido y corregido.
I would listen to this guy 24/7 @Michio Kaku!
Ok , so you accelerate nano ships to near light speed , how do they slow down to enter orbits and land ?
Would these nano ships have on-board propulsion ?
Wouldn't need it most likely... Even when comets and asteroids burn up in our atmosphere, remains on the nano level would still remain and intact. Same, I would imagine, for planets without that cushioning atmosphere to slow the "seeds" down. Despite the type of impacts, *some* of the nano bots would survive, and then begin to replicate themselves and begin the process.
Theoretically, it'd only take the survival of 1 of them to be successful.
You would need propulsion that's true, but less then you might think. Its possible to use the stars magnetosphere to slow down from near light speed if your that small. After that its minor alterations and hope you don't get pulverised on impact.
What would we gain by sending the probes out? We wouldent be Able to communicate or have any contact with they
I have a question : how do they slow down ?
I'm no astrophysicist, but the little I know about mechanical engineering and material science tells me a probe impacting any planetary body "near the speed of light" isn't going to be in shape to do any replicating after impact.
Adore your video post, has nano technology really advance that much? Thanks again.
anyone got a link to a trailer or a scene from that moive
please iwould like to see what hes talking about
Yay another video of Michio Kaku
I love the idea and it might actualy work but what functional purpose would those factories on distant planets have ?
You explain so easy
Why not? What makes it so that they can't have cameras or transmitters?
I came here after I played Grey Goo. Realized it wasn't only science fiction. One of the cutscenes involves Multi-user Mainframe or MUM explaining the details of the Von Neumann probe in its quest of finding intelligent life and exploring other galaxies beyond Earth's reach.
can u send me a link of the video and the part hes talking about
2:28 That obelisk was huge, whereas...didn't you say the probe would be as small as a needle?
'Could be' isn't 'would be'.
Size is in the eye of the beholder ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
First time I'm ever going to argue with Michio Kaku, that wasn't the plotline for the Monolith's. They weren't factories, they were essentially monitoring stations with a whole bunch of extra fun abilities, further, they weren't really sent out at random which is kind of what the secondary stages here sound like.
That said, this nanoship sounds awesome (still doesn't get me travelling through space though)
Come on Dr. Kaku, I read this in your book a few years ago already...get to it already!! hehe. I still love ya.
Wow, it's a great idea! What about sending one to the nearest star, make fotos and send them back to earth. We than can look at the planets and see whether they are human friendly. If they are, this will motivate a lot of people here, so researchers start to develop ships for humans. Such a nanoship will get there by 4 years and the fotos will go back also for 4 years. So in 8 years we will have knowledge about planets orbiting around our nearby star!
Apparently his main concern is outerspace colonization with whatever suitable. My primary question would be: how would the ship itself deaccelerate should it reach a feasible planet?
That is very simplistic way of putting it, there are a lot more factors then just food abundance that effect population growth.
Does Michio Kaku have his own UA-cam channel? He is one of my favorite people to listen to in this world.
LOL. i wonder life on other planets would react to when this starts to happen
whats a light year?
Another Excellent video post. Thanks :)
How do they stop? I don't think they could withstand an impact at nearly the speed of light. Interesting idea though if all problems can be solved. (Maybe a small solar sail?)
Aiming and steering might be necessary too, to not just hit send them into empty space (but that should be far easier than stopping). If it is "only" almost the speed of light with no shortcuts, we probably would have to stay within our galaxy or the stars we are shooting for are long dead when the ships reach them.
I like the fact that he says 'when' and not 'if'. It shows his certainty.
Imbedding information into mushroom spores would probably work as a single mushroom produces millions of spores that could survive in the vacuum of space. Now directing these spores in a particular direction is another story.
+@gnostic_love Thresher Maws love that stuff.
Well you see, the Soviet Union is still working to this day to add antimatter organelles to those mushroom cells. Your a little behind on the news, it's to be expected.
man i love these videos, truly makes you think.
I would hardly say humanity is stagnating, the rate technology is evolving is insane. The difference in sending someone to Mars, just 43 years after managing to get people to the Moon is pretty ambitious :P
I love this guy. He's smart and innovative
That is quite fascinating method to use in space exploration. It uses almost the same principles of seeding life: first you send a nanobot, with all the necessary blueprint for development, then you accelerate it to near the speed of light and then at the place it uses the given codes and blueprints to build itself up, create macrobot out of millions of nanobots, and begin the exploration. Actually, if we ever will master quantum tunneling on macro scale, these nanobots could build quantum gates
What's the point of sending a large, mobile hunk of metal to Mars? How is that exploration? How did they trick it into sending pictures back, or examining the landscape for future needs? Does this technique apply to nanoships too? I don't know, but asking questions is fun. Thank you.
all unbearable analogies aside, that's actually a decent idea
Amazing Video!
As much as i love listening to Michio Kaku, i would like to know what we really are able to do. Everything he says seems to come straight out of a sci-fi comic book, which satisfies my nerd needs, but it makes it really hard to believe that one day we might actually be able to do this stuff. I would like to know what human beings will accomplish in 30, 40, even 50 years, with a little luck i'll still be around and able to see it.
Simply amazing!! I love Michio Kaku!
Though I can appreciate the intended comparison, I can't help but have my mind literalize certain parts that probably do not apply.
I imagine the needle like Michio described, but then for it to behave like a plant I see them all standing on end, perhaps mounted to a weak electromagnetic field, so they resemble a dandelion once it's seeds are fully grown, and then shooting out, like mini super-computer shrapnel from a grenade.
Terrifying.
terraform the planet to make it habitable. combine this idea with the molecular assembler idea and the tiny needles can convert the matter on that planet to raw materials to make factories and redesign the planet to make it habitable so that when we do get go go to that planet we can actually survive on it. we can also use these probes to search for other potential elements and help us with getting there. the possibilities are endless
Small correction must be made, the obelisk in 2001 A Space Odyssey was on the Moon not Mars with the larger obelisk in orbit of Jupiter (in the film) or Saturn (in the book).
Interesting video!
This is an invitation to see an artist theory on the physics of light and time!
This theory is based on just two postulates
1. Is that the quantum wave particle function Ψ or probability function represents the forward passage of time itself
2. Is that Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle ∆×∆p×≥h/4π that is formed by the w-function is the same uncertainty we have with any future event within our own ref-frame that we can interact with turning the possible into the actual!
okay why do i always get default subtitles on Michio Kaku videos but not on others :S do they not think i can understand english ?
He talks about this in his book Physics of the Future.
I suggest you guys get this book on Amazon if you're a big fan of Michio Kaku!!
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I'll need to watch it again. i was more interested in how the obelisk's function than how what it physically was.
i think when it comes to life, "success" is defined as "ability to multiply as much as possible in a unit of time." in that sense, viruses are the most successful.
Im always amazed as how people are so mechanic (ships, robots, etc.) as opposed to making something organic (human, fungi, etc) We're limiting ourselves with this path.
The Slylandro already tried this. The first probe they sent out had a single programming error and it started destroying everything it encountered in order to replicate itself. Look it up.
i dont think that's what he meant, he said it could be a way to send something far enough with much less energy that it would need with "convential" means. they can get out there, then assemble themselves or cooperate somehow to build something else, which then could be usefull to us. if sent at a few light years away, i think we could wait for a transmission back;
In Arthur C. Clarke's novel The Fountains of Paradise the extraterrestrial "Starglider probe is an example of a Bracewell probe. In Clark's story The Sentinel, later adapted into the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 'Monolith' appears to be a Bracewell probe placed on the moon to ensure that only a civilization capable of spaceflight would be able to discover it."
Interesting, very thought provoking.
Which worked out so well for everyone...
This is pure _outside the box_ thinking!
yes it does
one lands on a planet and builds 100 more, they go to another 100 places and build 100 more each, which then go to places to build 100 more each and so on, forever expanding the range, and number and therefore information sent back. If this process is repeated you end up with a colossal amount of exploration and information without the need of ever leaving the planet, simple really
What is the point sent a nano ship?
How does it solve a problem?
Does this ships will explore space by them selves or what?
How could someone dislike this video?
Ok, this has actually got me thinking. The idea that Michio Kaku presents in this video is that we can explore space by building very small, self-replicating robots/nano machines that get shot into space by the millions or even billions to then land on planets with materials and environmental conditions which would allow the nano machines to get the required materials and produce energy to replicate themselves and thus build all kinds of other things
But there is something that Michio doesn't mentioN: Since it is possible that everytime a nano probe replicates itself there are very very small differences from how the material is cut or put together or how its shaped (comparable to how a bullet has marks on it that allow you to determine from which gun it was shot) or how the computer chip is propgrammed and put together... wouldnt it be possible that over time these nano robots would gradually change over the course of millions of generations?
And then, the central-programming of these robots would gradually change to make them differentiate between certain types of robots and ally with those robots who have a central-programm similar to their own, because doing so will make the programming variation which causes their behavior to be more common.
And as some of the robots become increasingly different from one another, it could become beneficial for Robot Type X to destroy Robot Type Y and then take their metals and silicon to use it to replicate themselves instead, because those copies of themselves will have higher similarity to them than the robots they just destroyed.
I think it is very obvious what kind of question this poses.
This was the first thing that came to my mind, I could not help but to think that over time variations in materials and errors in programming would cause future generations to evolve beyond what they were originally programmed for. I think the creation of such devices would probably be our lasting mark on the Milky Way.
Excelent point, they may even become intelligent due to evolutionary pressures.
we are assuming that these civilizations didn't learn how to program organic cells to do their desires.. WE could be an evolved von neumann Probe. they could have sent both robotic and dormant organic cells to all planets in the Goldilocks zone in the known universe. odds of this happening isn't low enough to not scare this shit out of me thinking about it.
lithium2370 Still, isn't it fascinating what we're learning might be possible, and how close we're getting to it?
Makes me mad I'm not able to live for the next 1-2 thousand years, just to get a glimpse of the possibilities. Almost makes me want to believe in ghosts and become one. LMFAO.
The designs could be stored digitally, then they do not copy themselves they produce copies of the digital design. And with programming you can keep the first few generation on hand to correct any errors that might arise.
We would not be limited by natural processes in the way real life is.
This sounds so feasible that is so scary. I mean this technology would have an unimaginable potential.
Wish I had looked it up first now too. I stand corrected, it is indeed tardigrade, with an i. Thanks for the correction, I learned something today :)
Interesting concept....
...but will it blend?
Finally... more michio kaku
Depends what the probes are programmed to do, or build. If they could send/receive data to/from us here on earth, and could be re-programmed at will, we could discover the means to create wormholes, then program them to build us a wormhole generator on a distant moon, and we could travel there..
I agree with almost everything he says. But at 2:30 he makes a grievous mistake. The MONOLITH is found on the MOON, there is another MONOLITH 2km tall at JUPITER.
If your gonna quote one of my favourite movies, get it right ^_^
The monolith was actually on the Moon in the movie, It may have been on Mars in the book, however. *Spoiler alert for 2010: The Year We Made Contact* In the sequel the monoliths flood Jupiter, turning it into a second sun. Perhaps Mr. Kaku could devote an episode of BT to the consequences of such an occurrence.
what about the object that passed very close to earth back in between 1990 and 2000, it had its own gravitational pull and seemed to not be affected by earths gravity at all, it had a metallic shine to it as light reflected of it and to this day has not been traced back to any space program and space debris. It status is Unidentified non man made object. The probe is now on an elliptical path and is due to return to earth in 2017
Brilliant.
so good !
This is very uplifting!
You have to admit that the Replicators being our species final act/invention before we go extinct would be one glorious tombstone. XD
I'd like to point out that in the movie 2001 space odyssey, the monolith does not land on Mars. As Mr. Kaku has claimed. Rather it lands here on earth and then devouring Jupiter later on in the movie. Just a small correction
But it could build space stations on planets so that you could eventually land at each one in stages, or find a planet that can sustain life.
Thus giving a definate direction and coordinates.
When it comes to Biology, my professor knows more about it more than me.
But when it comes to Physics, it's the other way around. Thanks to Michio Kaku.
cool, nature seems to be the best answer for technological solutions once again!
This is great, really makes you think!
nanoships, i never thought of space exploration that way. always wanted an enterprise though :D
@2:32 The "giant obelisk on Mars" in the movie "2001" is actually on the Moon in that movie.