Scientists FINALLY Discovered a NEW Way To Travel

When you want to travel long distances, such as between continents, you book an airplane flight and expect to spend some hours in the air. However, space travel requires a faster method of travel as all points of interest are far away. Space explorers have always searched for a way to travel faster than light to reach deep space more quickly. While all the methods discovered have significant drawbacks, scientists have found a new way that they will reveal in this video.

Light is fascinating and essential as it allows us to see. The speed of light is incredibly fast, with light traveling at a speed of 299,792,458 meters per second or 983,571,056 feet per second through a vacuum. Light is so fast that when you switch on a bulb in a dark room, the light fills the space almost instantly, and you won't notice that light travels. The universe is vast, and it can take light many years to travel from one part to another. Light from Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own, requires about 4.3 years to get here, so it is 4.3 light-years away.

Scientists have been trying to find a way to travel at the speed of light, which would make humans an interplanetary species. SpaceX billionaire CEO Elon Musk wants to form a settlement on Mars, but the explorers have to bear, at the minimum, five months of travel through space before touching down on the Red Planet, and that could take almost a year, depending on how close the two planets are. With the speed of light travel, they can make the long trip in less than four minutes.

Researchers have tried many different methods to achieve traveling at a very high speed, but until a scientist announced the new discovery that this video will reveal, there has always been an energy problem that all other methods could not solve. Even achieving one percent of the speed of light is difficult, as it takes a lot of energy to increase speed. For example, to get a teenager who weighs 110 pounds to 1 percent of the speed of light would cost 200 trillion Joules, which is roughly the same amount of energy that 2 million people in the U.S. use in a day.

The EmDrive is a technology that has been touted as the invention that would take us to the most distant parts of the universe very fast. It theoretically works by trapping microwaves in a shaped chamber where their bouncing produces thrust. The EmDrive relies on Newton's Second Law, where force is defined as the rate of change of momentum. Thus an electromagnetic, or EM, wave traveling at the speed of light has a certain momentum that will transfer to a reflector, resulting in a tiny force. This accumulated tiny force in great quantity is what enables the EmDrive. However, this invention turns our understanding of physics on its head, and many scientists don't take it seriously as it doesn't explain how the waves are initialised, how they continue to move, and where their momentum comes from.

Lentz said it has been exciting to see how much progress has recently been made in the field of warp drive. He thinks many more advances are ready to be made and looks forward to seeing what the next few years bring! Maybe closer than we think!

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