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Can you make something invisible? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Negin Farsad discover the science behind invisibility with professor of physics and optical science, Greg Gbur. What would real-life invisibility look like?
Can you be invisible in other parts of the magnetic spectrum? We discuss transparency versus invisibility and how metamaterials help us interact with different wavelengths. What does light have to do in order to make something invisible? We break down invisibility cloaks and other invisibility devices from fiction.
Could you make yourself invisible to all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum? We explore the main challenges in achieving invisibility and the difference between passive and active invisibility. How useful of a power would it be?
We discuss the interaction between waves and matter. What makes some waves reflect off matter and others pass through? Learn about x rays and how they work, plus, an at-home invisibility trick using prisms. Finally, could you make someone invisible to time?
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Theoretical warp technology exists in what we know as the Alcubierre drive. In this video, I will explain how this theoretical warp technology works and the problems that we face in developing it.
You will also get to see some mathematically accurate simulations of a spaceship using an Alcubierre drive, travelling at 1,000 light years per second!
In Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune and many other sci-fi stories where space travel exists, the common question that viewers have is: how do these humans achieve faster than light travel? The term “Warp travel” and “Warp speed” were originally coined by the Star Trek franchise. It is also known by other franchises as “Jump” or “folding of space” and the engines that cause this to happen are the “warp drive” or the “hyper drive”
Ultimately, the idea of bending space is embedded within all of these sci-fi stories, and with good reason.
It is impossible to travel faster than light within space. But space itself can bend, fold, move, expand at any speed or rate.
The alcubierre drive uses the principals in general relativity to bend space around a spaceship in such a way, that the space itself begins to move, carrying along anything within it. So although the spaceship is not technically moving within the space it occupies, the space around the spaceship allows motion to occur.
Space Engine was used for the simulations.
Blender was used for the animations.
BIG Projects To Solve Pressing Issues In Science — Dr. Christopher Stubbs, Ph.D. — Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Harvard University.
Dr. Christopher Stubbs, Ph.D. is the Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and has recently served as the Dean of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, at Harvard University (https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/peo…
Dr. Stubbs is an experimental physicist working at the interface between particle physics, cosmology and gravitation. His interests include experimental tests of the foundations of gravitational physics, searches for dark matter, characterizing the dark energy, and observational cosmology.
Dr. Stubbs was a member of one of the two teams that first discovered dark energy by using supernovae to map out the history of cosmic expansion.
Dr. Stubbs is currently heavily engaged in the construction of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for which he was the inaugural project scientist. He founded the APOLLO collaboration that is using lunar laser ranging and the Earth-Moon-Sun system to probe for novel gravitational effects that may result from physics beyond the standard model.
Researchers from Zhejiang University and HKUST (Guangzhou) have developed a cutting-edge AI model, ProtET, that leverages multi-modal learning to enable controllable protein editing through text-based instructions. This innovative approach, published in Health Data Science, bridges the gap between biological language and protein sequence manipulation, enhancing functional protein design across domains like enzyme activity, stability, and antibody binding.
Proteins are the cornerstone of biological functions, and their precise modification holds immense potential for medical therapies, synthetic biology, and biotechnology. While traditional protein editing methods rely on labor-intensive laboratory experiments and single-task optimization models, ProtET introduces a transformer-structured encoder architecture and a hierarchical training paradigm. This model aligns protein sequences with natural language descriptions using contrastive learning, enabling intuitive, text-guided protein modifications.
The research team, led by Mingze Yin from Zhejiang University and Jintai Chen from HKUST (Guangzhou), trained ProtET on a dataset of over 67 million protein–biotext pairs, extracted from Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL databases. The model demonstrated exceptional performance across key benchmarks, improving protein stability by up to 16.9% and optimizing catalytic activities and antibody-specific binding.
We often see stories of invincible warriors with superhuman abilities combating monstrous threats, but are the days of super soldiers nearly upon us, and could they be the biggest threat of all?
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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
Episode 381a, February 12, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur.
Editors:
Briana Brownell.
David McFarlane.
Lukas Konecny.
Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator