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How To Detect Faster Than Light Travel

Season 10 Episode 15 | 16m 28s

Warp drives may or may not be possible, but if they are then could a distant alien civilization’s warp fields produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth? According to a recent study.. Actually maybe, at least eventually. And we now know just what to look for and how to look for it.

Aired: 07/17/24
What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy?
Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?
Can we change the color of a black hole?
Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes.
All particles belong to two large groups: fermions and bosons.
Just how much stronger is this year’s solar activity going to get?
So you’ve decided to jump into a black hole...
We only recently figured out where cosmic rays are coming from.
Black hole complementarity may force us to rethink what it means to say that it exists.
To travel the stars without faster than light travel we’re going to need a generation ship.