Traveling to other planets, moons and galaxies. You could bring amazing telescopes and travel light years away and peer back in time at the earth at any point. Fictional book idea: “Into the Past, a Human Study using Wormholes and Quantum Telescopes.”
Qq: If we created a wormhole portal to say Mars, and it opened, would it start a massive vacuum and blast air from earth to mars, equalizing the pressure? Would we have to know the atm’s of the place we were portal-ing to? I suppose relative temperature would also play a role. Imagine opening a portal to Venus and instantly getting death blasted by lava and gas. Maybe that’s how we terraform a planet. We open portals to other high-atm planets with the necessary ingredients and spaceballs-style steal the goods. Calm Venus down and cloud Mars up.
I'm quite sad Stargate didn't get a mention in a talk about wormholes. Or that creating and maintaining a stable wormhole large enough for a human to go through would require more energy than what's in our galaxy. Stargate's fictional solution to this is that the wormhole is on a molecular level, and the gates are there to deconstruct you on one end, send your particles through the wormhole and then reconstruct you on the other side.
@@richerdson3652 All Neil said that the experience of traveling through a wormhole is not like a water slide ride. Which is true, but if you think about it, if a stargate takes you apart and you're traveling as particles, obviously you won't see anything, let alone a water slide effect. It's only there to look cool, Hollywood style (not really, the show was shot in Vancouver).
The elevator / wormhole thing was done by the Muppets as well and it is one the things that stuck with me through the years. It was with Uncle Travelling Mat from Outer Space. He was watching an elevator and was describing tho Gobo that this magical box was changing people (eg. Two men walked in and were changed to one man and two women that came out of the elevator). So he decided to go in and get changed himself, but found out that he did not change but thew whole room changed instead. Fun memories... PS: Thank you for the great content Prof Tyson and Chuck. Greetings from Cyprus
Thank you for what you do and everything you have done and your contribution to science and UA-cam and your discoveries and the literature that you have written.
@Shaka Zulu what is your issue with me? You don't even know me and I'm not debating anything with you. You seem like your going out of your way to be standoffish and it just makes you seem like you are confused yourself.
@Shaka Zulu also it's quite obvious this is not your main account and it's simply just an account you made to feel like your free balling and to try to troll people. Only thing is that I'm not really amused and I don't have to dispute anything.
I like the idea of an elevator being an analogue wormhole. Having all of the wormholes would have been great 45 years ago - I would **never** have lost at hide and seek! 💚🐇🐴💚
That's very interesting, however you have missed a few things that featured in Star Trek: 1. There are wormholes like you described, the Iconian portals (mainly featured in one TNG episode) work just like this. 2. The transporter in Star Trek has a nice component, that is sometimes mentioned: the Heisenberg compensator. I think this is a nice little acknowledgement of the difficulties such a transporter would face due to the laws of physics.
Thank you for mentioning this info! Yes, ST has artificial wormholes created by the prophets, first appearing is _DS9: Emissary_) and naturally occurring ones, though they’re unstable (_TNG: The Price_ and _VOY: Eye of the Needle_). The Iconian transporters are the closest existing phenomenon to the wormholes Dr. Tyson described. As for the transporters, the Heisenberg compensators allowed the transporter to accurately read both the momentum and position of particles meaning the person/info could be sent without any data lost. The transporter buffer is where the transport pattern was stored after being dematerialized but before being transmitted.
The Elevator is Replicator of death, when you die you just move to the next floor, either a higher dimension or a lower dimension. If you don't push a button, the door opens on the same floor and this is what is referred to reincarnation 😅
5:15 i'm not so sure, NDT. how can you be so sure there is no depth dimensionality to the wormhole? possibly the wormhole was created by some particle accelerator that causes a superliminal loop warping spacetime thus opening access to a path to natural or chosen spacetime coordinates which would allow for branching and/or redirection of wormholes.
Hahaha Neil totally had the; "Oh, man! Chuck's gonna _love_ this!" look of anticipation on his face while saying; "You know, like a gentleman caller?" 😅 And Chuck's eyes lit up before he even got the whole sentence out! 😂
I got a question about wormholes... How would "work = force x distance" work in that situation? U could take millennium going the speed of light to get to the other side of the universe, or you could use a wormhole and shorten the distance, but the work done is equal right?
This is very interesting. There was a book called "A Wrinkle in Time" that I had to read as a kid for school. I don't remember much of it, but in it there was the concept of the bending of space to join one area to another. These warps were called a tesseract. From Wikipedia: A tesseract is the literal “wrinkle in time” from the title, which is also a wrinkle in space. While “A Wrinkle in Time” keeps its tessering fairly simple, the idea is that you use your mind to fold the fabric of space together to bridge two faraway points. As Mrs. Whatsit explains in the movie's trailer, “The fifth dimension’s a tesseract. You add that to the other four dimensions and you can travel through space without having to go the long way around. In other words, to put into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” A tesseract is an interstellar shortcut, more or less.
@@MrMancreatedgod Lol. I just Googled it. Like I said, I don't remember much other than what was a mind altering concept to me at the time. And also the creatures that could "see" without eyes and had no thought to it being dark. That was cool too. I didn't know there was a movie until I saw that search result. I assume the movie and the book are at their core very similar. I haven't thought about that book in a long time. I read it probably 21 years ago.
@@jeffreysherman8224 idk why you'd ever assume a movie is anything like a book....just saying. Worst one I've ever experienced is catch-22. Anyway I wasn't trying to bust your balls. I just found your comment interesting primarily because of how you phrased it. A Wrinkle in time by Madeleine l'engle is a classic no doubt. Idgaf about a movie though and never knew they made one.
The movie wasn’t bad, and I loved that it gave us a black girl who is a math genius as the protagonist! Take a middle schooler you love to watch the movie with you!
Short story.. by Isaac Asimov.. "It's Such a Beautiful Day". BTW, I've been a big fan for many years.. I love how are able to present complex material in a way that is easily digestible by (almost) all of us.
Not by itself. Stable wormholes require negative energy and matter. Unstable wormholes collapse in very tiny fractions of a second, faster if something tries to enter them.
Wormholes represent a fascinating concept in theoretical physics, potentially allowing for shortcuts between distant points in space-time. While they could revolutionize space travel and connectivity across the universe, the unknown risks associated with their stability and the potential for causality violations make them a double-edged sword. Could the exploration of wormholes lead to groundbreaking advancements, or might we inadvertently unleash threats we can't control?
So let's say we have finally learned how to use wormholes in our daily lives, like in the fridge example, how would we implement safety mechanisms in order to avoid REALLY BAD accidents from happening? haha
I agree with you. Not just accidents. If someone invented the tech to create wormholes that would be a massive security implication. What stops a bad actor from just opening a wormhole into any place they want? How would you ensure that only "approved" entities go through the wormhole in your refrigerator?
@@Marco-qo8jq Plus the fact that in order for a wormhole to be stable, matter has to travel through it all the time to prevent the wormhole from collapsing on itself.
With wormholes we won't need hotels anymore. You use the wormhole from your home to your destination and when you are ready to go to sleep just wormhole home. Which means that there will be no need for packing or to stress about forgetting something. Forgot something? Go home through the wormhole and back. ...we need wormhole to be a thing ASAP
I love these guys! Todays talk made me wonder about replicating them & having a sort of dynamic duo team, each assigned to a tackling a major world problem.
They have systems a lot like you describe in Larry Niven's "Known Space" series. Basically teleporters to everywhere and anywhere on earth that you access through the appropriate address number and they can be locked for privacy. Part of the fun of thinking about that is the logistics. Imagine you have a teleporter to a popular place. How do you ensure that people don't wind up on top of each other when they go to the same place at the same time? Obviously additional protocols are required to ensure a messy thing like that cannot happen.
Quick question tho, from this video’s point of view and pretty much every movies or shows about wormholes make it seems like wormholes are always temporary. What guarantee do we have that after ripping through space and time the rupture will just close back up? I am guessing that in other to make a wormhole that would require an immense amount of energy to ripped through space time and end up in a different location at the same or different time. And once that damage is done I would assume that damage to be permanent. Right ?
@@StarTalk Exactly. But now that I think about it maybe it will sort of like heal itself... If you think about it in the way when you create a disturbance in water or air. When you drop a rock in still water, which will cause a disturbance and wave is formed. But at the same time, you can witness a hole where the rock landed, and the water also instantly refill that hole and reclaimed the space it occupied. the same can be said with air when a car drive by you can feel the disturbance in the air, and the air trying to reclaim the space it occupied. And so, if space time act in a similar way I am guessing we can expect a similar result. If and when we are able to generate enough energy to create a disturbance in space time itself and ripped open a wormhole.
I was literally watching "The Time Traveler " and Lost in space (the original) 3 am smoking copious amounts of Marijuana deconstructing these movies 🎥 Due to StarTalk, Science fiction is indeed tong and cheek, ridiculous from a scientific prospective funny if you don't take it to serious. Solid EDUCATUONAL episode as anticipated, Brooklyn NY loves StarTalk
Larry Niven covered this in a series in which teleportation was invented in the 80's, including the problem Chuck noted of not being able to get away from people, which results in a wave of impulse murders. Though I'm not sure about every problem: do conservation of momentum and potential energy apply across wormholes? Oh, and I think wormholes would be excellent substitutes for foley catheters, colostomies and g-tubes. Just my background speaking...
@2:15 when you ask Chuck if you want to eat lunch tomorrow. This reminds me of a restaurant in Memphis Tennessee that actually has a painted wall on the outside of their business, and they advertise "free beer and burgers tomorrow" . I'm sure y'all can grasp that concept real quick that if a patron says anything about it, they will just reference it to being tomorrow 😂.
Dr. Tyson, would it still take time to go through the worm hole? The doors would have to be separated by some distance, and nothing travels faster than light. Also, how would you prevent other particles from passing through once the door was opened?
The light speed limit is not a factor, because you basically go from one point of space time to another. It would be basically (theoretically) going from one room into another (the door being the wormhole). The problem is, that space time doesn’t like to be folded and punched. Probably you need incredible amount of energy to create a wormhole - and probably you would be smashed by gravity before you could create a stable wormhole. They just “casually” fantasized about the uses of a wormhole without pointing out, what probably would be needed to create a wormhole…
Well, even with wormholes the teleporter - as presented in Star Trek - would still be useful, as they can be controlled centrally and pick you up from anywhere in case of emergency, when opening a wormhole back to ship would not be possible. Besides, by opening a wormhole you cannot restrict who/what will pass through it.
I love this topic 💯imagine actually defying the laws of physics and you go back in time and meet yourself in another time and place its uncomprehending 💯 love it when these 2 talk about stuff
Neil you talk about wormholes and leave out stargates witch in my opinion is the best interpretation of a wormhole I've seen and it trys to explain with science you should do an explaner on the science behind the stargate I would be intreasted in what you say about it love your videos by the way you teach me so much
I think worm phones will be a thing. Although that means all incoming calls/people would have to shrink to the size of a hamster in the process. That'd be pretty cool.
There's a sci-fi novel by Dan Simmons called Hyperion where a type of wormhole exists. One character has a home where each doorway is a portal to a different place. So his balcony is on one planet, his bedroom on another, etc..
In the movie The Dark Tower, they teleported to a different Earth from another universe, it's close to the concept you guys discussed, except they don't elaborate on how it works and how they're accounting for earth displacement in space.
Pardon me if I got it misunderstood, but if the idea of wormhole involve bending the fabric of space, wouldnt banding involve the very earth we live on which is on the same fabric? And if so would it be possible to bend the earth in a way where I can be transported to different place on earth? Also the closet in the movie Narnia is best example I thought they would discuss😀
I just saw a notification for this explainer and honestly I'm shocked that its just over 6hours Old. A wormhole explainer by our personal astrophysicists should have happened years ago tbh😂😂
what does transcending the speed of light mean exactly, finding a way around needing to travel that speed? or is it saying your actually breaking the barrier of the speed of light?
New to the channel. Thought on the lunch example.. How many planes of existence could occupy that space theoretically.. Thinking a range from micro biological to "spirit realm" as an example.
Wormholes as well as black holes are so interesting to learn about purely because there is little we know about them so they can have infinite possibilities as they almost straight up defy the laws of our universe. I hope that I live long enough to see what they are truly all about
My favouite workhole use was in Farscape. Crichten demonstrates a couple of times how dangerously they can be used. First time. he places one end of a wormhole on a sun, and the other half in the middle of an enemy Scarran ship. Guess how toasty it got.
If we were to hypothesize portals characterized by elements such as water, plasma, air, or gas, their differences could be rooted in variations in medium composition, energy states, and the underlying dimensional properties of spacetime. These hypothetical constructs offer a fascinating lens through which to explore the interplay between astrophysics and quantum mechanics, each portal type potentially corresponding to unique cosmic and quantum phenomena. Water-like portals might symbolize regions of high density and coherence, where quantum wave functions dominate. Such environments could mirror phenomena seen in Bose-Einstein condensates or superfluidity, where particles behave in unison due to their quantum properties. In a cosmic context, these portals might align with spacetime regions near black holes or neutron stars, where gravitational forces compress matter to extreme densities and quantum coherence becomes significant. Plasma portals, by contrast, could represent high-energy, dynamic systems dominated by charged particles and electromagnetic fields. Such portals might be linked to the chaotic energy flows in stellar coronae or the intense magnetic reconnection events in accretion disks around black holes. These could act as volatile and energetic pathways, shaped by the extreme thermodynamic and electromagnetic conditions of the universe's most energetic environments. Air portals might be conceptualized as connections within diffuse, low-density regions of space, akin to interstellar gas clouds. Their quantum behavior could emphasize turbulence, weak electromagnetic interactions, and particle diffusion, potentially making them calmer and more stable pathways compared to their plasma counterparts. These portals might serve as bridges in regions of spacetime where matter transitions between molecular and atomic states. Gas portals, blending properties of various phases of matter, might reflect the quantum tunneling phenomena that enable transitions between states or regions of spacetime. Such portals could be likened to boundaries within cosmic structures, such as the interfaces between galactic clusters and intergalactic voids, where the distribution of matter becomes sparse yet remains connected by gravitational and quantum interactions. The dimensionality of spacetime could further shape these portals, as suggested by theories like string theory or brane cosmology. A plasma portal might involve violent brane intersections, creating unstable but powerful links, while a water portal might arise from smoother dimensional gradients, offering gentler and more coherent passageways. These differences could redefine how we imagine spacetime folds, tunnels, or bridges across the cosmic tapestry If such portals existed, they might not only serve as hypothetical gateways within the universe but also as metaphors for the diverse states of matter and energy shaping the cosmos. They challenge us to reconsider the boundaries of spacetime, matter, and quantum behavior. What if the universe’s hidden architecture operates through a spectrum of mediums, each acting as a portal to the unknown? By probing these possibilities, we may uncover new paradigms that unite the microscopic realm of quantum mechanics with the macroscopic grandeur of the cosmos-offering profound insights into the very fabric of existence.
Little-appreciated concept: every astrophysicist needs a comedian to think of the practical matters... like in-laws and vacations. Yes, wormholes need locks and Caller ID!!
Issac Asimov eat your heart out. Two of the best SiFi story tellers today. When you find a worm hole let me know, in the mean time I'm reading superman comics
Now that you’ve opened up the Rick & Morty theory… My 13 year old niece just learnt about wormholes in science and the brain in human biology recently and said to me… if we are all part of the universe and are infinitely connected to it, do you think humans take on certain traits of space and time too? I say… why? Possibly. She says.. what if the gaps/spaces between the firing synapses in our brains are the equivalent of wormholes within space which might be the gaps between dimensions just scaled down? Mind blown. I’m sending a link to your channel to her now.
Aren't there a few practical challenges? 1. Need massive amounts of energy to create a wormhole. At least a type 2 on the Kardashev scale. 2. Wormholes are inherently unstable, so we would have to have stable ones and also somehow control the entry/destination?
Not all of the transport sector will be eliminated. There will still be the need for certified fork lift drivers to lift heavy things through the worm holes.
Me, a sci-fi amature writer that that is trying to use wormholes in the first book of a series Chuck Nice: "Hey, sci-fi writers are gonna grab pens, cause Neil deGrasse Tyson gonna give some ideas" Me: "Well I am glad I clicked here NOW!"
I live in Marin County home of the great writer Jack Finley who wrote my favorite book: Time And Again where the Dakota building in NYC is a portal back to NYC in the 1800’s! The guy is an artist so he gets a job working for an Illustrated Newspaper.
What Would You Use A Wormhole For?
Visit the Space station
Traveling to other planets, moons and galaxies. You could bring amazing telescopes and travel light years away and peer back in time at the earth at any point. Fictional book idea: “Into the Past, a Human Study using Wormholes and Quantum Telescopes.”
Qq: If we created a wormhole portal to say Mars, and it opened, would it start a massive vacuum and blast air from earth to mars, equalizing the pressure? Would we have to know the atm’s of the place we were portal-ing to?
I suppose relative temperature would also play a role. Imagine opening a portal to Venus and instantly getting death blasted by lava and gas.
Maybe that’s how we terraform a planet. We open portals to other high-atm planets with the necessary ingredients and spaceballs-style steal the goods. Calm Venus down and cloud Mars up.
@@mespiderman that’s actually a decent idea 💡 we’d of course have to do that in a monitored and safe way but nonetheless good idea.
I would use it, to escape in to the next closest and safest Exo planet. hahaha. :).
Just when I'm needing another StarTalk, the boys deliver. Life is GOOOD.
100%. I was way below my weekly dose of good science content, and now I feel so much better.
@@wahnyoon612 please recommend content
I love the way you explain science in such a funny imaginative ways ❤️ thanks
Neil is a funny, charming guy, but Chuck Nice is an invaluable part of the duo as far as the comedy goes!
@@Nilguiri no doubt
@@sarfrazshah6604 I 😊
Thanks from WireDawg Tukansam
Definitely loving the Star Trek in StarTalk keep it coming guys
I'm quite sad Stargate didn't get a mention in a talk about wormholes. Or that creating and maintaining a stable wormhole large enough for a human to go through would require more energy than what's in our galaxy. Stargate's fictional solution to this is that the wormhole is on a molecular level, and the gates are there to deconstruct you on one end, send your particles through the wormhole and then reconstruct you on the other side.
True, exactly what i thought. Incidentally this video came just when i was rewatching stargate :D
Indeed.
They mentioned Star Trek minus the wormhole but I see what you're saying.
The problem is they did mention the stargate kind of warm hole they just said that's not the kind of wormhole that you would deal with
@@richerdson3652 All Neil said that the experience of traveling through a wormhole is not like a water slide ride. Which is true, but if you think about it, if a stargate takes you apart and you're traveling as particles, obviously you won't see anything, let alone a water slide effect. It's only there to look cool, Hollywood style (not really, the show was shot in Vancouver).
The elevator / wormhole thing was done by the Muppets as well and it is one the things that stuck with me through the years.
It was with Uncle Travelling Mat from Outer Space. He was watching an elevator and was describing tho Gobo that this magical box was changing people (eg. Two men walked in and were changed to one man and two women that came out of the elevator). So he decided to go in and get changed himself, but found out that he did not change but thew whole room changed instead.
Fun memories...
PS: Thank you for the great content Prof Tyson and Chuck.
Greetings from Cyprus
12:02 We all know what went trough Chuck's mind there 😂😂
Thank you for what you do and everything you have done and your contribution to science and UA-cam and your discoveries and the literature that you have written.
@Shaka Zulu ?
@Shaka Zulu knowledge is its own reward.
You seem very bored
@Shaka Zulu what is your issue with me? You don't even know me and I'm not debating anything with you. You seem like your going out of your way to be standoffish and it just makes you seem like you are confused yourself.
@Shaka Zulu also it's quite obvious this is not your main account and it's simply just an account you made to feel like your free balling and to try to troll people. Only thing is that I'm not really amused and I don't have to dispute anything.
Neil, I want to out-geek you again: If there is a wormhole, you won't need the refrigerator too. You could transfer the food directly to your mouth.
Great content and subjects guys, I have had Neil as my childhood hero, it's great that I get to watch him so often
Neil* It's a Scottish name! It's my name, too, but I forgive you!
@@Nilguiri sorry, misspelt it
@@Frog_Man_ Aye, no problem!
Same. Michio kaku and Neil are some of my favorite people on the planet.
I like the idea of an elevator being an analogue wormhole.
Having all of the wormholes would have been great 45 years ago - I would **never** have lost at hide and seek!
💚🐇🐴💚
That's very interesting, however you have missed a few things that featured in Star Trek:
1. There are wormholes like you described, the Iconian portals (mainly featured in one TNG episode) work just like this.
2. The transporter in Star Trek has a nice component, that is sometimes mentioned: the Heisenberg compensator. I think this is a nice little acknowledgement of the difficulties such a transporter would face due to the laws of physics.
Thank you for mentioning this info! Yes, ST has artificial wormholes created by the prophets, first appearing is _DS9: Emissary_) and naturally occurring ones, though they’re unstable (_TNG: The Price_ and _VOY: Eye of the Needle_). The Iconian transporters are the closest existing phenomenon to the wormholes Dr. Tyson described.
As for the transporters, the Heisenberg compensators allowed the transporter to accurately read both the momentum and position of particles meaning the person/info could be sent without any data lost. The transporter buffer is where the transport pattern was stored after being dematerialized but before being transmitted.
You have too much fan time on your hands...
@@morbidmanmusic we all do! ^_^
I appreciate you for your knowledge
Let's not forget the Guardian at the Edge of Forever. An intelligent wormhole that transcended both space and time
12:29 Woot woot!! S/o to the hometown- Charlotte, NC 💪🏾💪🏾💯
Star Talk is the most optimistic podcast because it keeps reminding me in these hard times to "keep looking up".
Also Chuck is hilarious! 😂
Don't look up!. Signed Right wing Maga.
You two are the best. Love watching you both. The energy, knowledge, and comedy is spot on. Keep up the good work.
Keep Looking Up!
The Elevator is Replicator of death, when you die you just move to the next floor, either a higher dimension or a lower dimension. If you don't push a button, the door opens on the same floor and this is what is referred to reincarnation 😅
Neil and Chuck for 2024
Bringing this forward a bit, but as Detroit said a few months ago in response to the loser who won - we should be so g-d lucky.
"First of all, we have monsters scaring children" thats one to add to the sound board
Much love and respect to you and your channel. I hope that all is well for you and your family and friends.
Same to you!
@@StarTalk thank you for the kind words.
Chuck quote: “Buggy Whips, They’re not just for Buggy’s anymore!” LOL! I love the show!
5:15 i'm not so sure, NDT. how can you be so sure there is no depth dimensionality to the wormhole? possibly the wormhole was created by some particle accelerator that causes a superliminal loop warping spacetime thus opening access to a path to natural or chosen spacetime coordinates which would allow for branching and/or redirection of wormholes.
No one is so sure about wormholes... yet!
Hahaha Neil totally had the; "Oh, man! Chuck's gonna _love_ this!" look of anticipation on his face while saying; "You know, like a gentleman caller?" 😅 And Chuck's eyes lit up before he even got the whole sentence out! 😂
I got kicked out of a Flat Earth Facebook group for asking if the social distancing rule pushed anyone over the edge yet
😂😂😂😂
underrated comment😂
@@510productions3 yes
They did this in an episode of Stargate SG1. The replacing airports thing.
I got a question about wormholes... How would "work = force x distance" work in that situation? U could take millennium going the speed of light to get to the other side of the universe, or you could use a wormhole and shorten the distance, but the work done is equal right?
The work done would be in creating the wormhole and holding it open, which takes huge amounts of energy.
The first Ghostbusters did "wormhole in the back of the refrigerator" but it definitely wasn't restocking groceries 🤣
This is very interesting. There was a book called "A Wrinkle in Time" that I had to read as a kid for school. I don't remember much of it, but in it there was the concept of the bending of space to join one area to another. These warps were called a tesseract.
From Wikipedia: A tesseract is the literal “wrinkle in time” from the title, which is also a wrinkle in space. While “A Wrinkle in Time” keeps its tessering fairly simple, the idea is that you use your mind to fold the fabric of space together to bridge two faraway points.
As Mrs. Whatsit explains in the movie's trailer, “The fifth dimension’s a tesseract. You add that to the other four dimensions and you can travel through space without having to go the long way around. In other words, to put into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” A tesseract is an interstellar shortcut, more or less.
I recall this book fondly as well. I find it amusing you quoted the movie trailer instead of any text though.....
@@MrMancreatedgod Lol. I just Googled it. Like I said, I don't remember much other than what was a mind altering concept to me at the time. And also the creatures that could "see" without eyes and had no thought to it being dark. That was cool too. I didn't know there was a movie until I saw that search result. I assume the movie and the book are at their core very similar. I haven't thought about that book in a long time. I read it probably 21 years ago.
@@jeffreysherman8224 idk why you'd ever assume a movie is anything like a book....just saying. Worst one I've ever experienced is catch-22.
Anyway I wasn't trying to bust your balls. I just found your comment interesting primarily because of how you phrased it. A Wrinkle in time by Madeleine l'engle is a classic no doubt. Idgaf about a movie though and never knew they made one.
That's a great book..
The movie wasn’t bad, and I loved that it gave us a black girl who is a math genius as the protagonist! Take a middle schooler you love to watch the movie with you!
If there were wormholes then students can't say "I forgot my homework at home* no more.
In monsters inc, what might occur if the monsters were to carry one door through another?
👀...... all reality implodes?........😱
Short story.. by Isaac Asimov.. "It's Such a Beautiful Day". BTW, I've been a big fan for many years.. I love how are able to present complex material in a way that is easily digestible by (almost) all of us.
"Things you can do with a wormhole." This is NOT something you would EVER want to hear from your proctologist.🙃🙃
Let me not enter this state of mind
"Thats some low hanging fruit"
- @W.B. Ward's urologist
😒😒😒😒
Lol
Depends on your kink, and everyone has a kink!
I was just watching Contact yesterday and thought about StarTalk!! Thanks for the upload✨️
Could a powerful enough particle accelerator make a wormhole? If so could you turn that particle accelerator into a stargate?
read my mind. or my comment. idk haha
You are correct.........
Not by itself. Stable wormholes require negative energy and matter. Unstable wormholes collapse in very tiny fractions of a second, faster if something tries to enter them.
If it reaches Planck energy levels
Rbbbbbbbbn
Wormholes represent a fascinating concept in theoretical physics, potentially allowing for shortcuts between distant points in space-time. While they could revolutionize space travel and connectivity across the universe, the unknown risks associated with their stability and the potential for causality violations make them a double-edged sword. Could the exploration of wormholes lead to groundbreaking advancements, or might we inadvertently unleash threats we can't control?
So let's say we have finally learned how to use wormholes in our daily lives, like in the fridge example, how would we implement safety mechanisms in order to avoid REALLY BAD accidents from happening? haha
I agree with you. Not just accidents. If someone invented the tech to create wormholes that would be a massive security implication. What stops a bad actor from just opening a wormhole into any place they want? How would you ensure that only "approved" entities go through the wormhole in your refrigerator?
@@Marco-qo8jq Plus the fact that in order for a wormhole to be stable, matter has to travel through it all the time to prevent the wormhole from collapsing on itself.
Wormhole telemarketers 🤬
You are a very beautiful speaker and a gift to humanity. Thank you for this. I love all of your speeches that I have heard.
I love the freaking universe
With wormholes we won't need hotels anymore. You use the wormhole from your home to your destination and when you are ready to go to sleep just wormhole home. Which means that there will be no need for packing or to stress about forgetting something. Forgot something? Go home through the wormhole and back. ...we need wormhole to be a thing ASAP
I love these guys! Todays talk made me wonder about replicating them & having a sort of dynamic duo team, each assigned to a tackling a major world problem.
What a thought!
I’ve never seen Doctor Tyson in a finer form here with his explanations.
They have systems a lot like you describe in Larry Niven's "Known Space" series. Basically teleporters to everywhere and anywhere on earth that you access through the appropriate address number and they can be locked for privacy. Part of the fun of thinking about that is the logistics. Imagine you have a teleporter to a popular place. How do you ensure that people don't wind up on top of each other when they go to the same place at the same time? Obviously additional protocols are required to ensure a messy thing like that cannot happen.
Quick question tho, from this video’s point of view and pretty much every movies or shows about wormholes make it seems like wormholes are always temporary. What guarantee do we have that after ripping through space and time the rupture will just close back up?
I am guessing that in other to make a wormhole that would require an immense amount of energy to ripped through space time and end up in a different location at the same or different time. And once that damage is done I would assume that damage to be permanent. Right ?
That's a good question. Is Spacetime self-healing?
Wormholes collapse very quickly unless lots of energy is injected in the right way to keep them open.
@@megalodon1726 Do we have a reason to believe that, or is that just a theory?
@@StarTalk Exactly. But now that I think about it maybe it will sort of like heal itself...
If you think about it in the way when you create a disturbance in water or air. When you drop a rock in still water, which will cause a disturbance and wave is formed. But at the same time, you can witness a hole where the rock landed, and the water also instantly refill that hole and reclaimed the space it occupied. the same can be said with air when a car drive by you can feel the disturbance in the air, and the air trying to reclaim the space it occupied.
And so, if space time act in a similar way I am guessing we can expect a similar result. If and when we are able to generate enough energy to create a disturbance in space time itself and ripped open a wormhole.
I was literally watching "The Time Traveler " and Lost in space (the original) 3 am smoking copious amounts of Marijuana deconstructing these movies 🎥 Due to StarTalk, Science fiction is indeed tong and cheek, ridiculous from a scientific prospective funny if you don't take it to serious.
Solid EDUCATUONAL episode as anticipated, Brooklyn NY loves StarTalk
I hope that everyone is having a great Summer so far this year.
Larry Niven covered this in a series in which teleportation was invented in the 80's, including the problem Chuck noted of not being able to get away from people, which results in a wave of impulse murders. Though I'm not sure about every problem: do conservation of momentum and potential energy apply across wormholes?
Oh, and I think wormholes would be excellent substitutes for foley catheters, colostomies and g-tubes. Just my background speaking...
Chuck don't ever leave Neil-even if you become a big movie star.. you're so much fun!! 🎠🎡🎢
@2:15 when you ask Chuck if you want to eat lunch tomorrow. This reminds me of a restaurant in Memphis Tennessee that actually has a painted wall on the outside of their business, and they advertise "free beer and burgers tomorrow" . I'm sure y'all can grasp that concept real quick that if a patron says anything about it, they will just reference it to being tomorrow 😂.
Dr. Tyson, would it still take time to go through the worm hole? The doors would have to be separated by some distance, and nothing travels faster than light. Also, how would you prevent other particles from passing through once the door was opened?
The light speed limit is not a factor, because you basically go from one point of space time to another. It would be basically (theoretically) going from one room into another (the door being the wormhole).
The problem is, that space time doesn’t like to be folded and punched. Probably you need incredible amount of energy to create a wormhole - and probably you would be smashed by gravity before you could create a stable wormhole.
They just “casually” fantasized about the uses of a wormhole without pointing out, what probably would be needed to create a wormhole…
Thank you Chuck for saying what I was thinking! "They still make buggy whips".
Well, even with wormholes the teleporter - as presented in Star Trek - would still be useful, as they can be controlled centrally and pick you up from anywhere in case of emergency, when opening a wormhole back to ship would not be possible. Besides, by opening a wormhole you cannot restrict who/what will pass through it.
Stargate managed to restrict things just fine, I loved the iris they installed :D
I love this topic 💯imagine actually defying the laws of physics and you go back in time and meet yourself in another time and place its uncomprehending 💯 love it when these 2 talk about stuff
Neil you talk about wormholes and leave out stargates witch in my opinion is the best interpretation of a wormhole I've seen and it trys to explain with science you should do an explaner on the science behind the stargate I would be intreasted in what you say about it love your videos by the way you teach me so much
I laughed at the "Worm Phone". Thanks guys
Chuck was hilarious at the beggining with the party statement... And the accidental expletive was funny too.
Worm phone is hilarious. I can't imagine I talk to my friends through holes in our houses while we are miles a way 😂
Monsters Inc paved a few of my steps I dare say
So much fun! You guys are so great! Thanks
I think worm phones will be a thing. Although that means all incoming calls/people would have to shrink to the size of a hamster in the process. That'd be pretty cool.
Worm phones would let you remotely share small items like car keys or paper money, and see in true light what the other sees.
Re: Dr. Tyson, Chuck, the day we have wormholes, you won't need phones, either.
Chuck smartly included himself in the "WE should be getting paid" for providing wormhole ideas for sci-fi writers. Respect to Lord Nice, The Clever!
12:04 -- chuck: yeahh everything come right through the holee 😏😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 and his face tells ( ohh ooo 😶)
Just wanted to say that I love both of your decor! The art istoo cool! Is there a story behind the penguin?
There's a sci-fi novel by Dan Simmons called Hyperion where a type of wormhole exists. One character has a home where each doorway is a portal to a different place. So his balcony is on one planet, his bedroom on another, etc..
Don't forget the toilet in the middle of the ocean.
12:02 🤣🤣🤣"Everything could come right through the hole!"
In the movie The Dark Tower, they teleported to a different Earth from another universe, it's close to the concept you guys discussed, except they don't elaborate on how it works and how they're accounting for earth displacement in space.
Talk about farm to table! I love idea of the wormhole in my 'frig! Lol 💚
The Internet is a type of wormhole that lets us be a fly on the wall to great discussions like this one. Thank you
I remember in Star Trek that Doctor McCoy never trusted the transporter and hated using it.
Chuck “Uninvited guest” this is where Stun phasers come in handy lol 😆
Pardon me if I got it misunderstood, but if the idea of wormhole involve bending the fabric of space, wouldnt banding involve the very earth we live on which is on the same fabric? And if so would it be possible to bend the earth in a way where I can be transported to different place on earth? Also the closet in the movie Narnia is best example I thought they would discuss😀
Did youtube remove the upload dates for videos? I'm not seeing dates on these (or old ones) anymore
Up next: NDgT explains the science behind Dr Stone :)
I wish to see that on Startalk :)
I just saw a notification for this explainer and honestly I'm shocked that its just over 6hours Old. A wormhole explainer by our personal astrophysicists should have happened years ago tbh😂😂
Great show guys! There also would not be any smog or green house gas. The air would be cleaner and less noisy. BTW you missed Stargate.
I'm so glad that you all have such a great sense of humor he's hilarious.
what does transcending the speed of light mean exactly, finding a way around needing to travel that speed? or is it saying your actually breaking the barrier of the speed of light?
breaking imo
New to the channel. Thought on the lunch example.. How many planes of existence could occupy that space theoretically.. Thinking a range from micro biological to "spirit realm" as an example.
Wormholes as well as black holes are so interesting to learn about purely because there is little we know about them so they can have infinite possibilities as they almost straight up defy the laws of our universe. I hope that I live long enough to see what they are truly all about
Well worm holes dont physically exist. Its just a math seneario that could b possible
I can just listen for hours.
Great video
My favouite workhole use was in Farscape.
Crichten demonstrates a couple of times how dangerously they can be used.
First time. he places one end of a wormhole on a sun, and the other half in the middle of an enemy Scarran ship.
Guess how toasty it got.
Someone say my name?
If we were to hypothesize portals characterized by elements such as water, plasma, air, or gas, their differences could be rooted in variations in medium composition, energy states, and the underlying dimensional properties of spacetime. These hypothetical constructs offer a fascinating lens through which to explore the interplay between astrophysics and quantum mechanics, each portal type potentially corresponding to unique cosmic and quantum phenomena.
Water-like portals might symbolize regions of high density and coherence, where quantum wave functions dominate. Such environments could mirror phenomena seen in Bose-Einstein condensates or superfluidity, where particles behave in unison due to their quantum properties. In a cosmic context, these portals might align with spacetime regions near black holes or neutron stars, where gravitational forces compress matter to extreme densities and quantum coherence becomes significant.
Plasma portals, by contrast, could represent high-energy, dynamic systems dominated by charged particles and electromagnetic fields. Such portals might be linked to the chaotic energy flows in stellar coronae or the intense magnetic reconnection events in accretion disks around black holes. These could act as volatile and energetic pathways, shaped by the extreme thermodynamic and electromagnetic conditions of the universe's most energetic environments.
Air portals might be conceptualized as connections within diffuse, low-density regions of space, akin to interstellar gas clouds. Their quantum behavior could emphasize turbulence, weak electromagnetic interactions, and particle diffusion, potentially making them calmer and more stable pathways compared to their plasma counterparts. These portals might serve as bridges in regions of spacetime where matter transitions between molecular and atomic states.
Gas portals, blending properties of various phases of matter, might reflect the quantum tunneling phenomena that enable transitions between states or regions of spacetime. Such portals could be likened to boundaries within cosmic structures, such as the interfaces between galactic clusters and intergalactic voids, where the distribution of matter becomes sparse yet remains connected by gravitational and quantum interactions.
The dimensionality of spacetime could further shape these portals, as suggested by theories like string theory or brane cosmology. A plasma portal might involve violent brane intersections, creating unstable but powerful links, while a water portal might arise from smoother dimensional gradients, offering gentler and more coherent passageways. These differences could redefine how we imagine spacetime folds, tunnels, or bridges across the cosmic tapestry
If such portals existed, they might not only serve as hypothetical gateways within the universe but also as metaphors for the diverse states of matter and energy shaping the cosmos. They challenge us to reconsider the boundaries of spacetime, matter, and quantum behavior. What if the universe’s hidden architecture operates through a spectrum of mediums, each acting as a portal to the unknown? By probing these possibilities, we may uncover new paradigms that unite the microscopic realm of quantum mechanics with the macroscopic grandeur of the cosmos-offering profound insights into the very fabric of existence.
I could listen to you two talk for hours.....do I need therapy? 🤣
Great subject!
Monsters Inc was a fantastic movie and a greatly inventive idea.
Little-appreciated concept: every astrophysicist needs a comedian to think of the practical matters... like in-laws and vacations.
Yes, wormholes need locks and Caller ID!!
Issac Asimov eat your heart out. Two of the best SiFi story tellers today. When you find a worm hole let me know, in the mean time I'm reading superman comics
Neil and Chuck are the greatest duo
Yes! Give me the good stuff! ❤️
Worm phone, I think you're onto something!! LOL
Now that you’ve opened up the Rick & Morty theory…
My 13 year old niece just learnt about wormholes in science and the brain in human biology recently and said to me… if we are all part of the universe and are infinitely connected to it, do you think humans take on certain traits of space and time too?
I say… why? Possibly.
She says.. what if the gaps/spaces between the firing synapses in our brains are the equivalent of wormholes within space which might be the gaps between dimensions just scaled down?
Mind blown.
I’m sending a link to your channel to her now.
The way he explained bending space/time is the same as how Sam Neil did in Event Horizon
One of the great horror movies of all time.
Aren't there a few practical challenges? 1. Need massive amounts of energy to create a wormhole. At least a type 2 on the Kardashev scale. 2. Wormholes are inherently unstable, so we would have to have stable ones and also somehow control the entry/destination?
Not all of the transport sector will be eliminated. There will still be the need for certified fork lift drivers to lift heavy things through the worm holes.
“yeah, but then they call you on your worm phone!” OMG 😂🌷🌱
Excellent choice of Co-Hosts!
Thank you so much for posting!!! ❤️🤗🙏🏽
13:27 out geeked 🤣
Me, a sci-fi amature writer that that is trying to use wormholes in the first book of a series
Chuck Nice: "Hey, sci-fi writers are gonna grab pens, cause Neil deGrasse Tyson gonna give some ideas"
Me: "Well I am glad I clicked here NOW!"
I live in Marin County home of the great writer Jack Finley who wrote my favorite book: Time And Again where the Dakota building in NYC is a portal back to NYC in the 1800’s! The guy is an artist so he gets a job working for an Illustrated Newspaper.