Avi Loeb

Wow.

That's that's a great statement.

That's do you have time for one more segment?

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Let's take a quick break and I want to come back with just some rapid fire science questions.

Yeah, that'd be wonderful.

Be right back.

Back with Avi Loeb.

So I just, maybe these are wacky questions, but you're here and it's, I don't get a physicist in here very often.

There are no wacky questions, there are only wacky answers.

Something that bothers me about aliens being here is I can't get my mind around the distances.

So you're aware of some theories of Albuquerque's warp drive and all of that.

How practical is that?

How feasible is that?

Can you explain that, how that works?

Yeah, so...

This is a solution to Albert Einstein's equations of gravity, which regard gravity as a curvature of space-time.

So the way to think of this, we know the Earth moves around the sun, and we tend to think that there is a force, gravity, connecting the Earth to the sun.

However, another way to think of it, which was Einstein's insight, was to think about a marble moving on the surface of a trampoline, the rubber surface, which is curved as a result of putting a heavy object in the middle.

And so like a bowling ball, okay, you put in the middle and then if you give the marble the right speed, it will move on this curved rubber in a circle, just like the earth moves around the sun.