Jonathan McCrea

Yeah, very difficult, I would imagine, to convince the scientific community at large that you did detect these, that that was what was happening, I would imagine.

A little bit more evidence would be required.

But you talked about, like, sort of turning off the warp drive.

I'm thinking of like the negative pressure and the positive pressure of like deep, you know, deep underwater and like just, you know, then just stepping out of that, you would instantly be squished.

Like how do you, is it possible to just turn off a warp drive and remain intact physically?

Right, but even if you were to try and control the turning off of the warp drive and it didn't collapse, is it possible theoretically to, I guess, neutralize the massive compression space and time around you to, you know, to basically exist on Proxima Centauri and walk on the surface?

Very good.

In terms of the maths behind this, what bits are missing from it?

Like what, you know, if you look at this, what bits are missing for figuring out just on paper whether or not we could build something like this?

But we know that negative energy density would actually invoke this curving of space.

And I mean, from a purely curious scientific inquiry point of view, it is probably useful in a couple of different ways to be thinking about this, right?

There are probably reasons why this is good to think about.

I'm trying to think of what the Star Trek sign-off is now.

Peace, live long and prosper?

Is that it?

Well, Katie Clough, astrophysicist at Queen Mary University of London, thank you so much for joining us.

Live long and prosper.

That's it for this week's episode.

Thanks to Aidan McKelvie producing Rory Galvin on podcast and Hugo de Silva Scott on sound.

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