Nerdist Hey Kyle. You got the diagram for wavelength reversed. Shorter wavelengths have more energy and are blueshifted. The 400nm side should be blue. Red and "warmer" wavelengths are longer, the 700nm side should be red.
Hey i have two interesting questions. Would the light behind you red shift or would it be visible at all? And if both the light behind you red shifts and the light ahead of you blue shifts would light running perpendicular to the direction of travel appear normal?
Here's an interesting thought- at a certain speed(99.999...% of c), in order to get somewhere faster, it would take less energy to accelerate the entire universe towards you rather than accelerating your ship.
Don't forget that the streaking effect is only what it looks like when entering hyperspace. During actual travel it has that crumpled, bluish-white, crumpled tinfoil effect.
The only "possible" form of moving faster than light not breaking the laws of physic as we know would be creating an massive gravity field that shortens space in front of the ship "pulling" the distance the ship has to travel locally into basical an shorter distance to move over. The ship does not move quicker, but the distance is locally shorter. I said "possible" because we do not really know if we are able to build something like an generator for gravity that can project. Alan Dean Forster KK drive would be pretty much the thing used It would be awesome though. Now puncturing spacetime and going into an "higher dimension" I do not really know if that is smart, pretty much everything about our dimension is tied to the speed of light to word it crudely, so existing there to possible exploit shorter distance or higher speeds of light would mean we need to take an bubble of our spacetime with us (something like an magnetic space time shield) to ensure we have an volume of space that has laws that allow us to function. Opening the question if something like that could exist in an possible higher (other) dimension and if it then can exploit possible other laws in that other dimension. Then how do you navigate a dimension your senses are not build for, where you have to travel to an point that is expressed in mathematics that are literally otherworldly to ours (xyz plus time) without the ability to monitor "realspace" (you have to travel in your private universe to exist through an enviroment your senses are definite not build to experience and make sense of. Given that it was once proposed no airplane can go sonic speed aside from making an dive only to be proven wrong by inventing sonic aerodynamics and thrusters/rockets makes me a little optimistic we could "cheat" around the hard speed limit but I would bet on something that happens in our space like the KK drive, not something that involved going into another dimension we have no real idea what it is like and how we perceive it, how do you build a testprobe if you have not the foggiest what conditions you have "there"
Yes you're right. In Babylon 5 hyperspace is a rhelm you enter where travel is faster. Almost like a wormhole. In essence neither of them are true FLT - rather you make the distance shorter.
+Dawid Gański I love when Kyle does... ANYTHING! hehe His is one of the best youtube channels i've yet encountered, along with SciShow and all the other Green Brothers things, PBS Spacetime, and some retro-stuff channels.
In canon it is actually stated that hyperspace is in fact an alternate dimension. And in the films while in hyperspace outside of the cockpit it appears as a blueish white warping tunnel. Also stated that if one were to stare too long into this tunnel tha would be overwhelmed with what is known as ‘Hyper-sickness’.
Nerdist well my boy seems to like it too he jumps every time "SUPRISE..." happens then giggles. Are you still taking ideas for episodes from this forum? if so, netflix is releasing a new series of star trek sometime soon and i have noticed your passion for climate change. With these two things in mind how about you look at the power sources of the ships in this universe? Something along the lines of how much power a matter/anti-matter generator could put out? Maybe compare this matter/anti-matter to the romulan singularity power source? Or for something a bit more grounded simply look at other forms of energy production that are awesome and much cleaner. I know how you love your Tokamak, i am rather fond of enriched thorium breeder reactors myself! Anyway thanks for reading and replying makes us views feel valued!
There is a great disturbance in the Force... millions of voices hoping for the day this coveted merchandise will come to be! Use those space wizard powers to bring peace and prosperity to your galaxy of fans!
Nerdist - T-shirt? A "t-shirt that I would definitely buy" t-shirt? Yes, perhaps you should look into that. And the tag at the end literally brought a tear to my eye, Kyle. Well done! :)
When I walked through the living room as my parents watched the history channel I learned more then my 12 years at government indoctrination camp, I mean 'school'
Nico DiAngelo asked him xD Yes, I too, having been stranded in a magical hotel casino since the 1940s and come out in present day would wonder about the science of Star Wars
Considering dark matter and dark energy don't interact electromagnetically, I don't think you could measure it in hyperspace, at least by electromagnetic means like "seeing" it.
@@northernskies86 yeah, anytime dark matter is observed it changes it’s properties (because light acts as a catalyst I think) That’s what makes it impossible to study. So Since it does have some sort of interaction with light maybe something trippy would happen. It’s too specific to google but I’m sure there’s theory’s out there about what might happen.
What's even cooler is the fact that if you pass by stars you would see them popping up as violet, turning blue, then hold a bit as white, then turn to red and then fade into darkness behind you, because you are passing them at an angle which decreases and then increases your relative speed towards and away from them. Looking out the side window would be just as cool as looking out the front window.
slight problem: as "light speed" is the ultimate speed limit, and that speed being a constant through any given medium, a moving light source would not change the frequency of the light to someone who is stationary, as the light would still be emitted at the exact same speed, with the exact same wave length (contrary to sound, who's speed is not constant in a medium). The only way to perceive light radiation at a different frequency would be for the observer to be moving relative to the source, not the other way. Other than that, like always, awesome video, and i agree you need your own channel.
Good video. Very cool how longer wavelength radiation will suddenly start becoming visible. One thing you didn't touch on too much, however, is what the causal speed limit (speed of light) is linked to. That speed limit is for objects moving through spacetime, but does not limit objects travelling WITH spacetime. That's why dark energy (anti-gravity) and gravity don't break the laws of physics when dealing with super-massive objects or super-long distances. Spacetime itself is being created between the galaxies (more noticeably than other shorter distances), and being consumed by black holes (and other objects with mass). So if hyperspace utilizes these properties (not really forces), then going 1.5C or even significantly greater than that is theoretically achievable.
Once again Charles kills it with the editing! So the blue shifting looks like the time vortex in Doctor Who! Who knew! And, if the true look of hyper space is that of a blue light at the end of the tunnel, does this mean that when we die, we accelerate to impossible speeds because we are traveling through infinite space? Oooooo, someone with better writing skills use this for a new book!
Hi, in the SW universe, the stars streaking shows the Falcon accelerating as it jumps to hyperspace, which exists outside of we consider real space. in Star Wars Ep 4 A New Hope ~0:56:20 Han says they're about to jump to hyperspace and the starlight elongates when he activates the hyperdrive (this is the device that allows a jump to hyperspace as well keeping the ship and it's contents in relative time with the rest of the universe). And at ~ 1:03:05 as the Falcon is about to exit hyperspace you will actually see what Lucas thought what hyperspace should look like - and it looks a lot like what you said it should. Cool!
There are probably a lot of examples where science fact is cooler than science fiction. A lot of Sci-Fi writers didn't really know what they were doing. They just took an idea and hoped it worked.
Conner Irvin it would matter where you built it as long as you have water and oxygen. you could generate an atmosphere where it's breathable. add water and your good.
It would have to be a very deep crater, I think. Enough that you could have the appropriate pressure without the atmosphere spilling over. And then there would be the radiation and the dust storms and the low gravity but hey.
AMazing video as always, but if I might be so bold, I'd like to point out that Hyperspace in Star Wars (and almost every other work of fiction featuring it or something like it) is a parallel set of 4 (sometimes 5) dimensions in quantized hyper-space-time. The act of jumping to hyperspace involves somehow tunneling into this dimension, and then traveling through it at what would be normal sub-light speeds in Realspace, but is faster than light RELATIVE to realspace, due to distances being scaled differently in hyperspace, such that any journey through hyperspace is physically shorter in terms of distance than that same trip through realspace.
I'd have to think about it some more, but I think that because you're flying through the light field, you'd actually see the stars behind you, in front of you, and those stars would appear to be disappearing to a point. So it would look kinda like you were flying in reverse. Not sure how the red shift would work, I think it might tend to cancel at 2c and look normal.
This was great, but what would warping through space look like to the outside observer? Would you see the spacial distortion around the ship? Would you see the ship at all?
@@KeishinB237 In Stargate series the ships travel in hyperspace, which looks like a blue tunnel, that's the space radiation background becoming visible, and they do move faster than speed of light in there. The artificial wormholes you're referring to are created by the gates, stepping through the event horizon any matter is converted to energy, thus it can move even faster than ships in hyperspace and then turned back into matter at the other end gate.
@@tekknorat and they also use their shield when traveling cux they know that they'll be heavier and tear apart according to this video. Stargate is more km point
But the EU (I know I know) explained that Hyperspace isn’t “lightspeed” but actually a dimensional shift that ships with with hyperdrives and proper shielding could slip into by slipping out of space. Also that the Death Star was a hyper-accelerator canon that actually pierced and dragged the core of Alderaan into hyperspace thus the planet was sheered apart rather than blown up. Viewer question, would that work?
Sweet topic for discussion. Once you pass the speed of light, you become energy, not matter. Stars radiate more than just visual light. The stars wouldnt disappear, but wave lengths you couldnt previously see, would become visible.
I want to see a because science on how a terminator/skynet takeover would pan out today with our advances in weaponry and computer technology would we be taken down as easily?
nope. not enough computing power. building an selflearning program (the seed for an AI) is in its very infacy, The best we an do is a demented mayfly right now.
In Star Wars(Legends at least), hyperspace is a sort of interdimensional wormhole-type thingy which is probably related to the Force(A spiritual concept). It is possible to travel to another dimension, or travel in time. The other dimension is called "Otherspace", which is similar to the regular galaxy, except space is a white void with little spots of darkness. The galaxy is attacked from a species that had gotten stuck in Otherspace. EckhartsLadder did a much better job at explaining this than I did. The way you explained it explains hyperspace in pretty much every other science fiction film though.
The millennium falcon does not go 0.5 past light speed it has a 0.5 quality hyperdrive engine which is pretty much the best in comparison start destroyers have a have a 1 quality hyperdrive that is why the falcon is actually faster than Star destroyers And if you look at every single piece of content When they are in hyper space and you look through the window or when they show an exterior shot it is always what you describe
This representation of hyper-space would look cool too. BUT one important thing has been forgotten. Isnt travel through hyper space based on the concept, that the space we live in consists of at least 4 (spatial) dimensions and travelling through hyperspace is also moving across other dimensions to avoid obstacles in the 3 dimensional (sub)space we perceive? Hope I would find representations of that soon
for all the people who want to know what traveling with lightspeed looks like, there is an AWSOME programm developed by MIT. its called "A slower speed of light"- they made a small Leveldesign to walk around inside. the speed of light is reduced to a fraction BUT the kept the effects. so you will see a lot of wired colorsgifting. try it out its for FREE and you can also find some footagae on youtube.
I mean, technichally hyperspace is a separate dimension, but you'd still have to go past lightspeed to reach it. Still really awesome science and explanation, though.
The scenes with the streaks are the jump to hyperspace. Hyperspace itself is shown for a brief moment when ariving at a destination,also the jump is the acceleration to 450,000km/s not 300,000 so i imagine the radiation would look a little more distorted maybe enough to even break whatever happens after you break the light barrier shows the stars blueshifting, and the streak would be similar to passing a lamp post the size of the sun.
If we think that way it's impossible to reach that speed and this video is pointless. We assume/ignore some things in this kind of videos, so we can discuss about it.
Yeah, I know, just trying to make a bad joke. But yeah it is quite likely he would see blue then violet and eventually nothing if he got that fast. Also, almost every ship in star wars has shields. Not many people take into account that they may not be entirely for combat reasons such as say... to stop the ship from coming apart in hyperspace?
He basically becomes light as he flies, so his mass must shift to nearly nothing. Otherwise he would be able to kill any one by simply stopping too close to them after running.
I've see you mention several times you can't go past the speed of light, which is true. But there is an actual model that involves FTL travel that doesn't break physics (though completely impractical with today's tech) which involves contracting space in front of you, letting you move further distances. Look up the Alcubierre drive. You don't move faster then light, rather bend space to cover further distance. Based on that model id be interesting to theorize what ftl travel would look like.
You know, a dimension is not something like a universe, but instead a direction you can go in that makes a 90 degrees angle with every other dimension (like for example north-south, east-west or up-down). So by definition a dimension is not parallel to any of the other dimensions.
Well then there would be no reason to say "0.5 past lightspeed" would there? Or see anything happening with the stars. See the problem? You have to go with what the movies *imply* rather than establish in these cases, because they aren't thinking about the science. -- KH
yolo lolfun - yeah should have said higher dimension (in string thoery hyperspace is considered the 10th dimension) Nerdist - Well you would be traveling 0.5 past lightspeed relative 3 dimensional space.
I'm guessing if they are traveling in a separate dimension where the same physics don't apply, then saying "0.5 past lightspeed" is just a handy way of explaining how fast they will get there relative to their starting point and destination in their regular dimension. And if it's a *parallel* dimension, why wouldn't you be able to see the stars? Parallel implies they are linked somehow. Perhaps seeing them all stretched out is just how they look in the parallel dimension? I am, of course, talking out my ass. But I'm curious.
Nerdist i always adsumed that the hyperdrive allows the ship to travel .5 past lightspeed. This then allows them to enter hyperspace, which is described as another dimension
Given the concept of red and blue shift, wouldn't that also mean: 1) You would be able to perceive the UV or X-ray emissions of stars behind you as visible light (since the high frequency light would red shift)? 2) You would be able to perceive the infrared or microwave radiation of stars in front of you as visible light (since the low frequency waves would blue shift)? Given the above, what would the now-visible red or blue shifted light look like? Great episode btw, even though I'm about a year late!
If all light frequencies shorten as we approach FTL wouldn't all light frequencies end up being close to that of gamma radiation? And if so, staring at hyperspace would result in us soaking in LOTS of very lethal amounts of rads, in a very short span of time, killing us.
I guess this is not only about a perception. By increasing your speed towards a light source you are effectively hit by far greater number of emitted photons. At high enough speeds you in fact could get hit by gamma rays that are (if still) a visible light. Just one more point to prove this - an energy of electromagretic waves is given by its frequency times the Planck's constant. It definitively would not be a good idea to travel near a speed of light just wearing sunglasses hoping that what you could feel is just a perception :) Anyway I am mising the "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME" disclaimer :D
LionStrategic Good point! A lot of gamma radiation right in the kisser. In fact, as you approach the speed of light the electromagnetic radiation coming from your direction of travel would approach infinitely short wavelength and therefore approach infinite power. You and your ship would melt like a chocolate bar under a Saturn V rocket.
Because that is actually not true. The frequency of the radiation (visible or invisible) would actually only just double. Since the source of the light (star or whatever) is more or less stationairy. The light traveling towards you goes at 3x10^8m/s and with you traveling towards the source at the same speed, the amount of waves hitting you per unit of time (frequency) is therefore only twice as high. The visible light would actually only go just past what we can see (400-700nm would become 200-350nm). Only if the source were to travel towards YOU near the speed of light, would the frequency approach infinity and melt your face off.
Im guessing before the video even starts that it looks like a really laggy game. you see a frame for an instant, then another further along, then another, and so on. Edit: not what i was expecting, but thats even cooler.
Hi Nerdist, Stars also emit lots of radiation at longer wavelenghts than visible light, like infrared and radio waves. Before you see the stars disappear, I think you would see a whole bunch of these other sources appear in the visible spectrum, instead of the stars visible light simply going dim, no? So there would be even more interesting stuff going on between the stars going dim and the MBR appearing visible to us.
Kyle. if you can get around to it, could you please do a video on what it would look like inside of a ship while travelling at hyperspace? Would you be able to see properly? What about our minds? Our neural impulses travel at just under the speed of light, so how would we perceive what we were seeing?
Doesn't a star emit enough intensity in all wavelength range that as the visible light blue shifts the infrared light will also blue shift and thus the visible range will never be empty.... Making the stars always appear white :P
well if you go faster than the speed of light I think that all light emitted in all wavelength even the infrared one would be shifted to ultraviolet and beyond.
yeah, that's something I have problem with, if you go faster than light speed any light going into your ship would have frequency wayyyyy past the ultraviolet range, the screen should just be black
Going at the speed of light should basically double every radiations frequency. So light of wavelengts between 800-1400nm would become the visible spectrum. Stars do emit a lot of that, so yes, stars would change a bit in color depending on their radiation spectrum is this wavelength window. They would only turn violet if they emitted a lot of 800nm wavelength radiation. And the cosmic background would still be black. Because even though 800-1400nm is included in the cosmic background radiation, its so little that we still wouldn't be able to perceive it as visible.
Actually he is stupid. Microwave radiation is much to weak (0.25eV/cm^3) to be visible to human eye, even when redshifted to visible range - because it is to weak. His videos are dump and makes others dumb as him.
also I'm sure he purposefully leaves out stuff just to try and BS his way to what ever conclusion he decided. in reality well in theory it is possible to move faster than light by Warping space. kind of like a surfer catching a wave to move him along faster. actually the very idea was reverse engineered from star treks warp drives (star wars has warp dives as well.) the idea is using energy to create a dip in space in front of a ship wile generating a rise n space behind it. one of the few things is a power source.
he's making the science behind popular sci-fi technologies easy to understand. unfortunately, that also means information is either omitted or wrong. its called entertainment or "nerd-tainment" - don't try and use it as actual education and you'll be ok to enjoy the video
What about the light moving in the same direction you are, but now slower than you? Would you be running into light waves... backwards? (ow, >.< my brain) Would you see a mirror of what was behind you color-shifted to whatever speed you exceed it by? And you'd also see the light that was emitted/reflected from you before you passed light speed, until you go far enough to pass that light, practically "seeing" things in reverse order? I don't even want to try to figure out what happens when you encounter light from a source in front of you and from a source behind you simultaneously...
I also heard something similar to that you would kinda see behind you, like the angle in which you would see during the acceleration would go over 160-170° (or whatever it is normaly)
I think they accounted for this later, the lights coming towards you being the initial effect followed by the end result being a tunnel of sorts. But that tunnel would have to be super fast and have a temporal differential to avoid your shipping goods being millions of years later.
And just like if you run in rain you get more wet than if you walk(+all the extra perspiration) traveling at lightspeed makes you infinity more cooler than if you walk.
2:22 Is my understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum off, or does he have the colors reversed in this drawing. The blue-violet should be on the higher frequency (shorter wavelength) side, and the red should be on the lower frequency (longer wavelength) side. Or have I gotten mixed up? It is rather late.
Anyone interested in this should probably take a look at 'A slower speed of light' It uses an open source engine that lets you play with relativity; the 'game' itself is very simple, you collect objects that reduce the speed of causality until moving forward immediately causes relativistic effects with all the view distorting effects that comes with. (Id still love to see some really talented game dev make something much more interesting and fun with this tech.)
What if this blueshifted cone of light eventually is the light we see when we die as our soul is freed from the body and flies at hyperspeed into the great beyond.
I'm certain rosanglura didn't say that "the blue light is our souls!", They said that what if the light the person who died sees is them moving at faster than light speed. No reason to get all athiest on people. ;-)
Hmm, the bit about stars changing color sounds accurate as one approaches lightspeed--their apparent wavelengths would shrink, causing an increasing blue-shift that eventually takes them out of the visible spectrum--but what about after one passes lightspeed? At lightspeed, the apparent wavelengths would be zero, so beyond it...negative wavelengths (i.e. normal wavelengths in the opposite direction)? Red light re-entering the visible spectrum and becoming white again at warp-2, then blue-shifting out again (and repeat) beyond that?
Could Greedo ever really shoot first? New mini episode over on my Insta (instagram.com/sci_Phile/). Thanks for watching! -- KH
Could you do an episode on the Halo Pelican Dropship from halos 1-Reach?
Nerdist Hey Kyle. You got the diagram for wavelength reversed. Shorter wavelengths have more energy and are blueshifted. The 400nm side should be blue. Red and "warmer" wavelengths are longer, the 700nm side should be red.
Nerdist Hey Kyle. How long does it take to shoot one episode of Because Science
Hey i have two interesting questions. Would the light behind you red shift or would it be visible at all? And if both the light behind you red shifts and the light ahead of you blue shifts would light running perpendicular to the direction of travel appear normal?
Nerdist Hey could you do a video on Firestorm matrix from flash tv series and Injustice 2 game
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Here's an interesting thought- at a certain speed(99.999...% of c), in order to get somewhere faster, it would take less energy to accelerate the entire universe towards you rather than accelerating your ship.
Don't forget that the streaking effect is only what it looks like when entering hyperspace. During actual travel it has that crumpled, bluish-white, crumpled tinfoil effect.
There wouldn't be a streaking effect of stars at all.
@@PoochieCollins thats the point
I thought hyperspace was them using an alternate dimension to “jump” between points. Like using a wormhole or the speed force.
Me too!
@@anhtuantrinh3342 You're both correct.
it is. hyperspace is a type of different plane/dimension.
The only "possible" form of moving faster than light not breaking the laws of physic as we know would be creating an massive gravity field that shortens space in front of the ship "pulling" the distance the ship has to travel locally into basical an shorter distance to move over.
The ship does not move quicker, but the distance is locally shorter.
I said "possible" because we do not really know if we are able to build something like an generator for gravity that can project.
Alan Dean Forster KK drive would be pretty much the thing used
It would be awesome though.
Now puncturing spacetime and going into an "higher dimension" I do not really know if that is smart, pretty much everything about our dimension is tied to the speed of light to word it crudely, so existing there to possible exploit shorter distance or higher speeds of light would mean we need to take an bubble of our spacetime with us (something like an magnetic space time shield) to ensure we have an volume of space that has laws that allow us to function.
Opening the question if something like that could exist in an possible higher (other) dimension and if it then can exploit possible other laws in that other dimension.
Then how do you navigate a dimension your senses are not build for, where you have to travel to an point that is expressed in mathematics that are literally otherworldly to ours (xyz plus time) without the ability to monitor "realspace" (you have to travel in your private universe to exist through an enviroment your senses are definite not build to experience and make sense of.
Given that it was once proposed no airplane can go sonic speed aside from making an dive only to be proven wrong by inventing sonic aerodynamics and thrusters/rockets makes me a little optimistic we could "cheat" around the hard speed limit but I would bet on something that happens in our space like the KK drive, not something that involved going into another dimension we have no real idea what it is like and how we perceive it, how do you build a testprobe if you have not the foggiest what conditions you have "there"
You are right
'Look.... I'm heavier!' dying
you dont know comedy
I'm pretty sure in Return of the Jedi, they depict the Millennium Falcon emerging from hyperspace which looks like a blue tunnel.
Yes you're right. In Babylon 5 hyperspace is a rhelm you enter where travel is faster. Almost like a wormhole. In essence neither of them are true FLT - rather you make the distance shorter.
Agreed, it looks like a wormhole.
Steve Gale yep the jump looks like a ton of streaks but after that it's a big blue tunnel
Also in the Clone wars tv show
Steve Gale That was in the original Star Wars as well.
This is probably one of my favourite episodes ever, when you make science fiction even cooler with actual scien- SURPRISE BLASTER
Maaan, i love when Kyle does suprise lightsaber
+Dawid Gański
I love when Kyle does...
ANYTHING! hehe
His is one of the best youtube channels i've yet encountered, along with SciShow and all the other Green Brothers things, PBS Spacetime, and some retro-stuff channels.
I read the comments before the surprise lightsaber. Thanks for the spoiler :(
@@BertGrink The best channel is wej0w, followed by NinjaHassen and the now-defunct DexterStyle.
In canon it is actually stated that hyperspace is in fact an alternate dimension. And in the films while in hyperspace outside of the cockpit it appears as a blueish white warping tunnel. Also stated that if one were to stare too long into this tunnel tha would be overwhelmed with what is known as ‘Hyper-sickness’.
I enjoyed you turning round and drawing chubaka way too much
I just found your channel and binge watched the entire thing while nursing my teething son, great videos man love your stuff kept me going strong.
That's so cool to hear Samuel, glad I could help in any way. -- KH
Nerdist well my boy seems to like it too he jumps every time "SUPRISE..." happens then giggles. Are you still taking ideas for episodes from this forum? if so, netflix is releasing a new series of star trek sometime soon and i have noticed your passion for climate change. With these two things in mind how about you look at the power sources of the ships in this universe? Something along the lines of how much power a matter/anti-matter generator could put out? Maybe compare this matter/anti-matter to the romulan singularity power source? Or for something a bit more grounded simply look at other forms of energy production that are awesome and much cleaner. I know how you love your Tokamak, i am rather fond of enriched thorium breeder reactors myself! Anyway thanks for reading and replying makes us views feel valued!
That was not only a cool topic but the visualization of what hyperspace looks like is very artistically beautiful.
Yes, very relaxing and ambient!
Never gets old lol! #SurpriseLightsaber!
It's like a should make a t-shirt for you all or something....hmm... -- KH
There is a great disturbance in the Force... millions of voices hoping for the day this coveted merchandise will come to be! Use those space wizard powers to bring peace and prosperity to your galaxy of fans!
Nerdist - T-shirt? A "t-shirt that I would definitely buy" t-shirt? Yes, perhaps you should look into that.
And the tag at the end literally brought a tear to my eye, Kyle. Well done! :)
Please!?
Damn yasss!
What about StarGate hyperspace window? It looked a lot like what you have described.
Ozan Erbektaş that's sound like a wormhole gate
Like SGUs FTL that was almost correct then.
Stargate DOES use wormholes, but only with the stargates themselves. Ships travel through hyperspace.
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Real hyperspace would look way cooler than sci-fi hyperspace! Sweet episode as always
I learn more on here than in school
tru dat.
When I walked through the living room as my parents watched the history channel I learned more then my 12 years at government indoctrination camp, I mean 'school'
Right
make a sci fi movie, Kyle
Nico DiAngelo asked him xD
Yes, I too, having been stranded in a magical hotel casino since the 1940s and come out in present day would wonder about the science of Star Wars
I was waiting for someone to point out Nico DiAngelo! :)
finally! i was surprised this sort of comment wasn't higher on the comment section!
The Doctor. simply The Doctor. First: YES I WAS THINKING THE SAME
Second: would the Tardis travel through Hyperspace too?
But why were you in the casino? Did Zeus get pissed at your dad and tried to kill you and your sister?
Knightzinho You should see how the Oracle ended up
I wonder if the dark energy, which is currently undetectable, would be shifted to a form which could be detected and measured.
Hmm, interesting point. I bet you could get an answer on Quora.
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Considering dark matter and dark energy don't interact electromagnetically, I don't think you could measure it in hyperspace, at least by electromagnetic means like "seeing" it.
@@northernskies86 yeah, anytime dark matter is observed it changes it’s properties (because light acts as a catalyst I think) That’s what makes it impossible to study. So Since it does have some sort of interaction with light maybe something trippy would happen. It’s too specific to google but I’m sure there’s theory’s out there about what might happen.
@@Robert_Douglass Quora is full of pseudo experts. fuck them.
Every episode gets better, and your mane grows ever more magnificent sir.
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I love Kyle's impersonation of Chewbacca. He just turns around. 😂
I think that was probably the best surprise lightsaber ever
What's even cooler is the fact that if you pass by stars you would see them popping up as violet, turning blue, then hold a bit as white, then turn to red and then fade into darkness behind you, because you are passing them at an angle which decreases and then increases your relative speed towards and away from them. Looking out the side window would be just as cool as looking out the front window.
I'm a big Star Wars fan but I must admit this is way cooler
I made an animation based on what Nerdist said in this video! Check it out for Science and Hyperspace: ua-cam.com/video/g1PnHOkc8ck/v-deo.html
slight problem: as "light speed" is the ultimate speed limit, and that speed being a constant through any given medium, a moving light source would not change the frequency of the light to someone who is stationary, as the light would still be emitted at the exact same speed, with the exact same wave length (contrary to sound, who's speed is not constant in a medium). The only way to perceive light radiation at a different frequency would be for the observer to be moving relative to the source, not the other way. Other than that, like always, awesome video, and i agree you need your own channel.
Good video. Very cool how longer wavelength radiation will suddenly start becoming visible.
One thing you didn't touch on too much, however, is what the causal speed limit (speed of light) is linked to. That speed limit is for objects moving through spacetime, but does not limit objects travelling WITH spacetime. That's why dark energy (anti-gravity) and gravity don't break the laws of physics when dealing with super-massive objects or super-long distances. Spacetime itself is being created between the galaxies (more noticeably than other shorter distances), and being consumed by black holes (and other objects with mass).
So if hyperspace utilizes these properties (not really forces), then going 1.5C or even significantly greater than that is theoretically achievable.
Once again Charles kills it with the editing!
So the blue shifting looks like the time vortex in Doctor Who! Who knew!
And, if the true look of hyper space is that of a blue light at the end of the tunnel, does this mean that when we die, we accelerate to impossible speeds because we are traveling through infinite space? Oooooo, someone with better writing skills use this for a new book!
This show is the only reason I'm sub'd. Kyle needs his own channel.
I learnt more than in this video than I have in two years of GCSE science
Today I learnt that the word "learnt" is legit and more commonly used in the UK. Thank you.
Does that mean we can legitimately also say Edjamacated?
Ron Petersen no sorry
You clearly have not been paying attention in class
This video managed in 10 minutes to explain things I haven't grasped in 53 years. Brilliant, thank you.
These videos blow my mind. So fascinating. 💫
Hi, in the SW universe, the stars streaking shows the Falcon accelerating as it jumps to hyperspace, which exists outside of we consider real space. in Star Wars Ep 4 A New Hope ~0:56:20 Han says they're about to jump to hyperspace and the starlight elongates when he activates the hyperdrive (this is the device that allows a jump to hyperspace as well keeping the ship and it's contents in relative time with the rest of the universe). And at ~ 1:03:05 as the Falcon is about to exit hyperspace you will actually see what Lucas thought what hyperspace should look like - and it looks a lot like what you said it should. Cool!
At last, science fact is cooler than science fiction!
There are probably a lot of examples where science fact is cooler than science fiction. A lot of Sci-Fi writers didn't really know what they were doing. They just took an idea and hoped it worked.
They did dream up a lot of cool things that could be made to work tough.
Meh that's more of the exception than the rule. Sci-Fi will always be cooler because of the amazing things that could happen.
I had to wait an hour for Windows to install it's latest updates. So I discovered these videos with Nerdist Xbox One app. Now I'm hooked!
...you get heavier. *pauses* ...look, im heavier
I'm flattered to know that you make these episodes for me specifically. Thanks Kyle!
In the anime Cowboy Bebop, humans have colonized Mars by building cities inside craters on Mars. Would this be an easy way to colonize Mars?
Conner Irvin you had me at cowboy bebop
OK. 3, 2, 1, Let's jam.
Conner Irvin it would matter where you built it as long as you have water and oxygen. you could generate an atmosphere where it's breathable. add water and your good.
In the show it looked like the crater helped contain the atmosphere for humans to live in, was wondering if this would be possible
It would have to be a very deep crater, I think. Enough that you could have the appropriate pressure without the atmosphere spilling over. And then there would be the radiation and the dust storms and the low gravity but hey.
AMazing video as always, but if I might be so bold, I'd like to point out that Hyperspace in Star Wars (and almost every other work of fiction featuring it or something like it) is a parallel set of 4 (sometimes 5) dimensions in quantized hyper-space-time. The act of jumping to hyperspace involves somehow tunneling into this dimension, and then traveling through it at what would be normal sub-light speeds in Realspace, but is faster than light RELATIVE to realspace, due to distances being scaled differently in hyperspace, such that any journey through hyperspace is physically shorter in terms of distance than that same trip through realspace.
So basically like in Stargate. Or almost like in Stargate.
I'd have to think about it some more, but I think that because you're flying through the light field, you'd actually see the stars behind you, in front of you, and those stars would appear to be disappearing to a point. So it would look kinda like you were flying in reverse. Not sure how the red shift would work, I think it might tend to cancel at 2c and look normal.
Hyperspace is an alternate dimension, where moving there takes less effort to move in our dimension. So all of this is kinda BS misunderstanding
This was great, but what would warping through space look like to the outside observer? Would you see the spacial distortion around the ship? Would you see the ship at all?
i think his version looks cooler than star wars tbh haha
I made an animation based on what Nerdist said in this video! Check it out for Science and Hyperspace: ua-cam.com/video/g1PnHOkc8ck/v-deo.html
One of the best episodes so far! Big wow!!
For force sake...
@nerdist seriously fascinating stuff man, nerdy as hell but really cool at the same time.
So the hyperspace in Stargate SG-1 actually looks realistic.
Dunno... those are artificial wormholes and i don't think they go to light speed... i could be wrong but honestky who knows
Hyperspace for the ships they use, blue backgrounds outside the ships.
@@KeishinB237 In Stargate series the ships travel in hyperspace, which looks like a blue tunnel, that's the space radiation background becoming visible, and they do move faster than speed of light in there. The artificial wormholes you're referring to are created by the gates, stepping through the event horizon any matter is converted to energy, thus it can move even faster than ships in hyperspace and then turned back into matter at the other end gate.
@@tekknorat and they also use their shield when traveling cux they know that they'll be heavier and tear apart according to this video. Stargate is more km point
"Gotta shoot first, gotta go fast."
-Sonic the Solo
YEET
But the EU (I know I know) explained that Hyperspace isn’t “lightspeed” but actually a dimensional shift that ships with with hyperdrives and proper shielding could slip into by slipping out of space.
Also that the Death Star was a hyper-accelerator canon that actually pierced and dragged the core of Alderaan into hyperspace thus the planet was sheered apart rather than blown up.
Viewer question, would that work?
So mass effect got it right?
Sweet topic for discussion.
Once you pass the speed of light, you become energy, not matter.
Stars radiate more than just visual light. The stars wouldnt disappear, but wave lengths you couldnt previously see, would become visible.
Rebels is basically Firefly in the Star wars universe (except firefly was actually good)
I want to see a because science on how a terminator/skynet takeover would pan out today with our advances in weaponry and computer technology would we be taken down as easily?
nope. not enough computing power. building an selflearning program (the seed for an AI) is in its very infacy, The best we an do is a demented mayfly right now.
In Star Wars(Legends at least), hyperspace is a sort of interdimensional wormhole-type thingy which is probably related to the Force(A spiritual concept). It is possible to travel to another dimension, or travel in time. The other dimension is called "Otherspace", which is similar to the regular galaxy, except space is a white void with little spots of darkness. The galaxy is attacked from a species that had gotten stuck in Otherspace. EckhartsLadder did a much better job at explaining this than I did. The way you explained it explains hyperspace in pretty much every other science fiction film though.
The millennium falcon does not go 0.5 past light speed it has a 0.5 quality hyperdrive engine which is pretty much the best in comparison start destroyers have a have a 1 quality hyperdrive that is why the falcon is actually faster than Star destroyers And if you look at every single piece of content When they are in hyper space and you look through the window or when they show an exterior shot it is always what you describe
Yeah, that was a retcon, but a pretty sensible one.
a retcon to be sure but a sensible one
This representation of hyper-space would look cool too. BUT one important thing has been forgotten. Isnt travel through hyper space based on the concept, that the space we live in consists of at least 4 (spatial) dimensions and travelling through hyperspace is also moving across other dimensions to avoid obstacles in the 3 dimensional (sub)space we perceive? Hope I would find representations of that soon
Set to warp 8, oh sorry, wrong series...
for all the people who want to know what traveling with lightspeed looks like, there is an AWSOME programm developed by MIT.
its called "A slower speed of light"- they made a small Leveldesign to walk around inside. the speed of light is reduced to a fraction BUT the kept the effects. so you will see a lot of wired colorsgifting. try it out its for FREE and you can also find some footagae on youtube.
I mean, technichally hyperspace is a separate dimension, but you'd still have to go past lightspeed to reach it. Still really awesome science and explanation, though.
Yeah, these science + sci-fi explanation are always about walking a thin, sensible line, thanks! -- KH
Nerdist couldn't it work as like wormholes or teleportation
Cory Lewis right. I forgot that bit.
The scenes with the streaks are the jump to hyperspace. Hyperspace itself is shown for a brief moment when ariving at a destination,also the jump is the acceleration to 450,000km/s not 300,000 so i imagine the radiation would look a little more distorted maybe enough to even break whatever happens after you break the light barrier shows the stars blueshifting, and the streak would be similar to passing a lamp post the size of the sun.
Bukkake at 4:10?
I always enjoy how much fun you appear to be having.
So when Flash runs fast enough he sees everything blue, then violet and then... he sees nothing?
Raven by that point he'd be dead. The human body simply cannot handle those kinds of forces. Despite him breaking that fact every time he runs
If we think that way it's impossible to reach that speed and this video is pointless. We assume/ignore some things in this kind of videos, so we can discuss about it.
Yeah, I know, just trying to make a bad joke. But yeah it is quite likely he would see blue then violet and eventually nothing if he got that fast. Also, almost every ship in star wars has shields. Not many people take into account that they may not be entirely for combat reasons such as say... to stop the ship from coming apart in hyperspace?
I'm pretty sure the Speedforce was made to be an excuse for everything.
He basically becomes light as he flies, so his mass must shift to nearly nothing.
Otherwise he would be able to kill any one by simply stopping too close to them after running.
I've see you mention several times you can't go past the speed of light, which is true. But there is an actual model that involves FTL travel that doesn't break physics (though completely impractical with today's tech) which involves contracting space in front of you, letting you move further distances. Look up the Alcubierre drive. You don't move faster then light, rather bend space to cover further distance. Based on that model id be interesting to theorize what ftl travel would look like.
Hyperspace is actually a parallel dimension you travel through. That's why you don't experience no time dilation.
You know, a dimension is not something like a universe, but instead a direction you can go in that makes a 90 degrees angle with every other dimension (like for example north-south, east-west or up-down). So by definition a dimension is not parallel to any of the other dimensions.
Well then there would be no reason to say "0.5 past lightspeed" would there? Or see anything happening with the stars. See the problem? You have to go with what the movies *imply* rather than establish in these cases, because they aren't thinking about the science. -- KH
yolo lolfun - yeah should have said higher dimension (in string thoery hyperspace is considered the 10th dimension)
Nerdist - Well you would be traveling 0.5 past lightspeed relative 3 dimensional space.
I'm guessing if they are traveling in a separate dimension where the same physics don't apply, then saying "0.5 past lightspeed" is just a handy way of explaining how fast they will get there relative to their starting point and destination in their regular dimension. And if it's a *parallel* dimension, why wouldn't you be able to see the stars? Parallel implies they are linked somehow. Perhaps seeing them all stretched out is just how they look in the parallel dimension? I am, of course, talking out my ass. But I'm curious.
Nerdist i always adsumed that the hyperdrive allows the ship to travel .5 past lightspeed. This then allows them to enter hyperspace, which is described as another dimension
Given the concept of red and blue shift, wouldn't that also mean:
1) You would be able to perceive the UV or X-ray emissions of stars behind you as visible light (since the high frequency light would red shift)?
2) You would be able to perceive the infrared or microwave radiation of stars in front of you as visible light (since the low frequency waves would blue shift)?
Given the above, what would the now-visible red or blue shifted light look like?
Great episode btw, even though I'm about a year late!
If all light frequencies shorten as we approach FTL wouldn't all light frequencies end up being close to that of gamma radiation? And if so, staring at hyperspace would result in us soaking in LOTS of very lethal amounts of rads, in a very short span of time, killing us.
I'm just imagining thousands of needles shot at any hyperspace observer all at once, ouch!
I imagine thats one of the reasons every ship in starwars (other than fighters) have shields.
If your close to light speed it does not change the frequency of waves, but your perception about it
I guess this is not only about a perception. By increasing your speed towards a light source you are effectively hit by far greater number of emitted photons. At high enough speeds you in fact could get hit by gamma rays that are (if still) a visible light. Just one more point to prove this - an energy of electromagretic waves is given by its frequency times the Planck's constant. It definitively would not be a good idea to travel near a speed of light just wearing sunglasses hoping that what you could feel is just a perception :) Anyway I am mising the "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME" disclaimer :D
Very nice, never heard it explained in rain before, usually sirens from a car passing are the standard. I like your one better
How come no one ever mentions blue shifting harmless electromagnetic radiation into face melting ionizing radiation?
LionStrategic Good point! A lot of gamma radiation right in the kisser. In fact, as you approach the speed of light the electromagnetic radiation coming from your direction of travel would approach infinitely short wavelength and therefore approach infinite power. You and your ship would melt like a chocolate bar under a Saturn V rocket.
Because that is actually not true. The frequency of the radiation (visible or invisible) would actually only just double. Since the source of the light (star or whatever) is more or less stationairy. The light traveling towards you goes at 3x10^8m/s and with you traveling towards the source at the same speed, the amount of waves hitting you per unit of time (frequency) is therefore only twice as high. The visible light would actually only go just past what we can see (400-700nm would become 200-350nm). Only if the source were to travel towards YOU near the speed of light, would the frequency approach infinity and melt your face off.
wow I am glad I happened upon this channel. actually learned something on youtube. had to sub. great stuff
Curse you Kyle! Curse you and your beautiful rock star hair.
FlyingShazbot No. Thor hair!
the best thing on UA-cam is because science.
Quick somebody send this to Disney
why? To hear the mouse say "pfffft science ho hah!"
TacTech Gamer more like send it to elite dangerous Devs/every other space game dev
I have to ask... in Stargate SG-1 I have seen "hyperspace" much more like what you are describing... is this a more accurate vision of it?
Krosis _ yes yes and yes
I was scrolling down to see if I were the only one who noticed thr similarity
Im guessing before the video even starts that it looks like a really laggy game. you see a frame for an instant, then another further along, then another, and so on.
Edit: not what i was expecting, but thats even cooler.
BurningFyre When you are THAT wrong you are supposed to delete the comment.
Why would you think the?
This episode was really good, nice job.
lol omg
Im going to make that my Ring tone
Surprise light-saber !
Hi Nerdist,
Stars also emit lots of radiation at longer wavelenghts than visible light, like infrared and radio waves. Before you see the stars disappear, I think you would see a whole bunch of these other sources appear in the visible spectrum, instead of the stars visible light simply going dim, no? So there would be even more interesting stuff going on between the stars going dim and the MBR appearing visible to us.
Surprise Lightsaber @ 7:17
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE -- KH
Ya blew it, Chile
Kyle. if you can get around to it, could you please do a video on what it would look like inside of a ship while travelling at hyperspace? Would you be able to see properly? What about our minds? Our neural impulses travel at just under the speed of light, so how would we perceive what we were seeing?
Doesn't a star emit enough intensity in all wavelength range that as the visible light blue shifts the infrared light will also blue shift and thus the visible range will never be empty.... Making the stars always appear white :P
Shashwat Khurana After violent Humans can't seen past that since you know it's no longer visible light. He even covered that topic how did you miss it
well if you go faster than the speed of light I think that all light emitted in all wavelength even the infrared one would be shifted to ultraviolet and beyond.
Agree, if you see the blue of the background radiation you would see the other frequency’s of a star
yeah, that's something I have problem with, if you go faster than light speed any light going into your ship would have frequency wayyyyy past the ultraviolet range, the screen should just be black
Going at the speed of light should basically double every radiations frequency. So light of wavelengts between 800-1400nm would become the visible spectrum. Stars do emit a lot of that, so yes, stars would change a bit in color depending on their radiation spectrum is this wavelength window. They would only turn violet if they emitted a lot of 800nm wavelength radiation.
And the cosmic background would still be black. Because even though 800-1400nm is included in the cosmic background radiation, its so little that we still wouldn't be able to perceive it as visible.
I really like this series
This nigga smart
The Wookie has a point.
Will Ginkens xx yeah smart as in reading....lol
Actually he is stupid. Microwave radiation is much to weak (0.25eV/cm^3) to be visible to human eye, even when redshifted to visible range - because it is to weak. His videos are dump and makes others dumb as him.
also I'm sure he purposefully leaves out stuff just to try and BS his way to what ever conclusion he decided. in reality well in theory it is possible to move faster than light by Warping space. kind of like a surfer catching a wave to move him along faster. actually the very idea was reverse engineered from star treks warp drives (star wars has warp dives as well.) the idea is using energy to create a dip in space in front of a ship wile generating a rise n space behind it. one of the few things is a power source.
he's making the science behind popular sci-fi technologies easy to understand. unfortunately, that also means information is either omitted or wrong.
its called entertainment or "nerd-tainment" - don't try and use it as actual education and you'll be ok to enjoy the video
could you do a video compering: quick silver, the flash and traser (from overwatch) speed abilities
Nico DiAngelo? Who else got the reference?
Incredible video! Had to watch it twice.
My name is Kevin:0
Kevin Perez haha I just scrolled through half the comments to see if there was actually someone called Kevin. He was talking to YOU man! 😊
What about the light moving in the same direction you are, but now slower than you? Would you be running into light waves... backwards? (ow, >.< my brain)
Would you see a mirror of what was behind you color-shifted to whatever speed you exceed it by? And you'd also see the light that was emitted/reflected from you before you passed light speed, until you go far enough to pass that light, practically "seeing" things in reverse order?
I don't even want to try to figure out what happens when you encounter light from a source in front of you and from a source behind you simultaneously...
Surprise Lightsaber?
oh nevermind 😅I was waiting forever 😂
I also heard something similar to that you would kinda see behind you, like the angle in which you would see during the acceleration would go over 160-170° (or whatever it is normaly)
Duh...this is what we see when we *Die*.
You serious!!?????
Not really.
Ever smoked DMT?
I think they accounted for this later, the lights coming towards you being the initial effect followed by the end result being a tunnel of sorts. But that tunnel would have to be super fast and have a temporal differential to avoid your shipping goods being millions of years later.
And just like if you run in rain you get more wet than if you walk(+all the extra perspiration) traveling at lightspeed makes you infinity more cooler than if you walk.
Karsten Von Fjellheim but E=mc^2
2:22 Is my understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum off, or does he have the colors reversed in this drawing. The blue-violet should be on the higher frequency (shorter wavelength) side, and the red should be on the lower frequency (longer wavelength) side. Or have I gotten mixed up? It is rather late.
For me, you say?
Why, sir, my cheeks are red shifting. Did they go to hyperspace?
Anyone interested in this should probably take a look at 'A slower speed of light'
It uses an open source engine that lets you play with relativity; the 'game' itself is very simple, you collect objects that reduce the speed of causality until moving forward immediately causes relativistic effects with all the view distorting effects that comes with.
(Id still love to see some really talented game dev make something much more interesting and fun with this tech.)
What if this blueshifted cone of light eventually is the light we see when we die as our soul is freed from the body and flies at hyperspeed into the great beyond.
rosanglura what actual fuck did I just read?
Areth thou Maddith brethren ? Science, meet Religion?
rosanglura Science will only meet religion when it provides genuine evidence for it. Not look the blue light is our souls!!!
I'm certain rosanglura didn't say that "the blue light is our souls!", They said that what if the light the person who died sees is them moving at faster than light speed. No reason to get all athiest on people. ;-)
This is Spartaaaa :D :D
You are an extraordinary scientific communicator. Congratulations !!
i thought he was gona explain what hyper space was and not just state the effects of going faster than light.
DISAPPOINTED!!!! :[
Night Raven sucks right🙄
Hmm, the bit about stars changing color sounds accurate as one approaches lightspeed--their apparent wavelengths would shrink, causing an increasing blue-shift that eventually takes them out of the visible spectrum--but what about after one passes lightspeed? At lightspeed, the apparent wavelengths would be zero, so beyond it...negative wavelengths (i.e. normal wavelengths in the opposite direction)? Red light re-entering the visible spectrum and becoming white again at warp-2, then blue-shifting out again (and repeat) beyond that?