Dr. Kaku: A PORTAL THAT CONNECTS DIRECTLY TO BIZARRE WORLDS.
IT'S A PASSPORT TO ADVENTURE...
WHERE THE CRAZIEST FANTASY BECOMES REALITY...
A WORKING GATEWAY TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
I'M DR. MICHIO KAKU.
I'M A THEORETICAL PHYSICIST AND A SCIENCE-FICTION FAN.
JOIN ME AS I SHOW YOU HOW TO MAKE SCI-FI SCIENCE.
IMAGINE STEPPING OUT OF OUR WORLD
INTO A FARAWAY PLACE WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE...
WORLDS FILLED WITH STRANGE CREATURES...
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...AND EVEN COPIES OF OURSELVES...
ALTERED VERSIONS OF OUR OWN REALITY.
THE FANTASY OF TRAVELING TO A PARALLEL WORLD IS IRRESISTIBLE.
BUT IT'S NOT JUST SCI-FI WRITERS
WHO GET EXCITED ABOUT PARALLEL WORLDS.
MORE AND MORE SCIENTISTS ARE BECOMING CONVINCED
THEY MAY ACTUALLY EXIST
AND VISITING ONE MAY NOT BE INCONSISTENT
WITH THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
I WANT TO DESIGN A WORKING GATEWAY TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
LIKE THE ONES WE SEE IN THE MOVIES.
SO, WHO BETTER TO ASK THAN THE REAL EXPERTS, THE SCI-FI FANS?
OH, I LOVE "STARGATE."
THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF GOING THROUGH A GIANT ALIEN RING
THAT CAN BRING YOU TO A MILLION DIFFERENT PLANETS IS FANTASTIC.
A PARALLEL UNIVERSE GIVES YOU THE OPTION TO DO ANYTHING,
TO GO ANYWHERE, BE ANYONE, SEE ANYTHING.
I COULD BE A ROCK STAR. I COULD BE A BILLIONAIRE.
I COULD BE ANYTHING THAT I WANT TO BE.
BEFORE I DESIGN MY PORTAL,
I NEED TO FIND A PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
SURPRISINGLY, SCIENCE PREDICTS AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT TYPES.
SO, MY FIRST JOB IS WORKING OUT WHICH IS BEST.
MOST PEOPLE THINK OF THE UNIVERSE
AS EVERYTHING THAT'S OUT THERE.
BUT COSMOLOGISTS HOLD A DIFFERENT DEFINITION.
TO THEM, THE UNIVERSE IS EVERYTHING
THAT IT'S POSSIBLE TO SEE,
AND THAT GIVES IT A SHAPE...
A SPHERE EXTENDING 14 BILLION LIGHT-YEARS
IN ALL DIRECTIONS FROM EARTH.
STARS AND GALAXIES BEYOND THIS SPHERE
ARE INVISIBLE TO US,
AS THEIR LIGHT HASN'T HAD TIME TO REACH EARTH.
BUT JUST BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEE THEM
DOESN'T MEAN THEY AREN'T OUT THERE SOMEWHERE.
IN FACT, THERE MAY BE ENOUGH OF THEM
TO MAKE UP MANY MORE SPHERES
THE SIZE OF OUR VISIBLE UNIVERSE.
AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT SOME OF THESE SPHERES
MAY TURN OUT TO BE PERFECT COPIES OF OUR OWN...
PARALLEL UNIVERSES COMPLETE WITH MORE EARTHS, MORE CITIES,
AND EVEN MORE PEOPLE WHO LOOK JUST LIKE US.
DO YOU EXIST IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE?
YEAH. I'M QUITE SURE THAT I DO.
MAX TEGMARK SPECIALIZES IN PRECISION COSMOLOGY.
HE USES HIGH-TECH INSTRUMENTS
TO KICK FLABBY THEORIES INTO SHAPE.
HE THINKS THERE'S ENOUGH STUFF OUT THERE
TO MAKE UP MANY MORE PARALLEL UNIVERSES THE SIZE OF OURS.
LET IT ROLL.
IN FACT, HE THINKS THERE MAY BE
AT LEAST A GOOGOL TO THE POWER FIVE MORE UNIVERSES OUT THERE.
THAT'S 1 WITH 500 ZEROES.
ARE YOU KEEPING COUNT?
THE NUMBER MAY EVEN BE INFINITE.
Tegmark: THE SIMPLEST THEORY THAT PUTS A BANG INTO THE BIG BANG
DOESN'T STOP ONCE IT'S MADE JUST THE STUFF WE CAN SEE.
IT JUST KEEPS GOING AND GOING.
IT ALL COMES DOWN TO PROBABILITY.
THE MORE SPHERES THERE ARE, THE GREATER THE CHANCES
OF FINDING ONE WITH A PARALLEL EARTH.
Dr. Kaku: SO, LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION
THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO ASK.
IS ELVIS PRESLEY STILL ALIVE IN ONE OF THESE UNIVERSES?
HE IS.
ELVIS.
Tegmark: SPACE IS REALLY INFINITE,
AND THERE INFINITELY MANY OTHER UNIVERSES.
SOONER OR LATER, YOU'RE BOUND TO FIND ANOTHER ONE
WITH ANY POSSIBLE ARRANGEMENT OF THE PARTICLES,
EVEN ONE WHERE ELVIS IS ALIVE
AND IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHAT'S UP, ELVIS?
HOW ARE YOU?
GOT ANY PEANUT-BUTTER-AND-JELLY SANDWICHES?
THE IMPLICATIONS ARE STAGGERING.
IT MEANS THAT, IS MAX IS RIGHT,
THERE ARE A MULTITUDE OF ME'S OUT THERE.
WE'RE GONNA BE DISCUSSING PARALLEL UNIVERSES.
ONE MAY HAVE A RADIO CO-HOST WHO'S A DINOSAUR.
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS QUESTION?
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ANOTHER MAY LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE HITLER WON THE WAR
AND EVERYONE SPEAKS GERMAN.
PARALLELE UNIVERSUM SPRECHEN.
A PARALLEL UNIVERSE WITH ANOTHER ME
MAY SOUND LIKE A GREAT PLACE TO OPEN A PORTAL TO.
BUT I'M WORRIED
THAT THESE WORLDS MAY TURN OUT TO BE A LITTLE BORING.
AFTER ALL, THEY WERE CREATED
BY THE SAME BIG BANG THAT CREATED US.
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS WILL BE EXACTLY THE SAME
AS THE ONES WE EXPERIENCE HERE.
I'M LOOKING FOR SOMETHING MORE EXOTIC...
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PLACES WHERE IT'S POSSIBLE
TO BE IN MORE THAN ONE PLACE AT ONCE
AND PERHAPS PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE MADE OF STRANGE MATERIALS
THAT CAN'T EVEN EXIST IN OUR UNIVERSE.
THIS IS THE TYPE OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE I WANT TO VISIT --
ONE THAT WAS CREATED BY A DIFFERENT BIG BANG.
LUCKILY FOR ME, A NEW THEORY SUGGESTS
THAT BIG BANGS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME,
THAT THERE ARE COUNTLESS OTHER PARALLEL UNIVERSES OUT THERE.
AND IT'S ALL THANKS TO BUBBLES.
Man: HEY!
INFLATION THEORY SAYS
THAT OUR UNIVERSE SITS ON THE SKIN OF A GIANT BUBBLE
CREATED BY THE BIG BANG...
AND THAT OUR BUBBLE IS NOT THE ONLY ONE.
Guth: AS SOON AS YOU START TRYING TO BUILD THEORIES
OF HOW UNIVERSES CAN BE CREATED,
THERE'S REALLY -- CAN NEVER HAVE A THEORY
OF SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS ONLY ONCE.
EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT IN SCIENCE HAPPENS AGAIN AND AGAIN.
ACCORDING TO INFLATION THEORY,
MULTIPLE BIG BANGS CREATED MULTIPLE BUBBLE UNIVERSES.
SOME FORM INSIDE OTHER BUBBLES.
OTHERS ON THE OUTSIDE OF BUBBLES.
BABY BUBBLES CAN BUD OFF FROM LARGER BUBBLES.
BUBBLES CAN EVEN COLLIDE AND STICK TOGETHER.
AND IN EACH BUBBLE UNIVERSE,
THE MATTER THAT EXISTS
AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS THAT GOVERN THEM
MAY BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
A PARALLEL UNIVERSE WITH ALTERED LAWS OF PHYSICS
IS EXACTLY WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR.
ALL I HAVE TO DO NOW IS WORK OUT HOW TO GET TO ONE.
BUT IT SEEMS THAT JUMPING BUBBLES IS FAR FROM EASY.
Guth: IT LOOKS LIKE THESE OTHER POCKET UNIVERSES
ARE ESSENTIALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO EVER GET TO.
THEY'RE VAST DISTANCES FROM WHERE WE ARE,
AND MOST OF THEM ARE EVEN, UNDER ALMOST ALL CIRCUMSTANCES,
CAUSALLY DISCONNECTED FROM US,
MEANING YOU REALLY CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE.
THE GAP BETWEEN THE BUBBLES ISN'T CONTINUOUS SPACE,
AND THE LAWS OF PHYSICS SAY IT'S A GAP WE CAN'T JUMP.
WHAT IS SO FRUSTRATING IS THAT IT SEEMS AS IF IT'S IMPOSSIBLE
EVER TO VISIT ONE OF THESE OTHER BUBBLE UNIVERSES.
BUT I BELIEVE THERE'S A LOOPHOLE IN THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.
I'M DESIGNING A GATEWAY TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
LIKE THE ONES IN "STARGATE."
AND I'VE CHOSEN THE TYPE I WANT TO TRAVEL TO --
A BUBBLE UNIVERSE
WHERE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN.
BUT GETTING THERE IS PROVING TO BE A REAL HEADACHE.
JUMPING THE GAP BETWEEN EXISTING BUBBLE UNIVERSES
IS IMPOSSIBLE.
WHAT I NEED IS A BRIDGE BETWEEN BUBBLES,
AND I'VE HAD AN IDEA HOW TO MAKE ONE.
INFLATION THEORY SAYS
THAT BABY UNIVERSES CAN BUD OFF FROM EXISTING UNIVERSES,
FORMING SHORT-LIVED BRIDGES IN THE PROCESS.
BY CREATING THE RIGHT CONDITIONS,
I MAY JUST BE ABLE TO GET A BRAND-NEW UNIVERSE
TO BUD OFF FROM OURS.
AND IF I'M QUICK ENOUGH,
I SHOULD BE ABLE TO CROSS OVER THE BRIDGE BEFORE IT CLOSES UP.
THE KEY TO CREATING A BABY UNIVERSE IS HEAT.
WHEN YOU HEAT THINGS UP, THEY CHANGE STATE...
LIKE THIS BLOCK OF ICE.
Dr. Kaku: NOTICE THAT THE ICE HAS TURNED TO LIQUID
AND THE LIQUID HAS TURNED TO STEAM.
NOW, WE PHYSICISTS BELIEVE THAT IF YOU COULD SOMEHOW
HEAT SPACE ITSELF TO AN INCREDIBLE TEMPERATURE,
SOMETHING AMAZING HAPPENS.
SPACE BECOMES UNSTABLE.
SPACE BEGINS TO BOIL.
BY BOILING SPACE, IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE
TO TRIGGER A NEW BIG BANG,
CREATING A BABY UNIVERSE
THAT EXPANDS TO BILLIONS OF LIGHT-YEARS ACROSS,
FILLED WITH THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF STARS AND PLANETS.
COSMOLOGIST ALAN GUTH HAS EVEN WORKED OUT
THE INGREDIENTS YOU'D NEED
AND THE TEMPERATURE YOU'D HAVE TO SET YOUR OVEN.
Guth: IF YOU TAKE THAT OVEN WITH ITS 2,000 DEGREES
AND MAKE IT A TRILLION TIMES HOTTER,
THAT'S STILL NOT NEARLY ENOUGH, NOT NEARLY.
IF YOU MAKE IT ANOTHER TRILLION TIMES HOTTER THAN THAT,
THAT'S ABOUT RIGHT --
ABOUT A TRILLION-TRILLION TIMES THE TEMPERATURE OF THAT OVEN.
CONCENTRATING THE ENERGY OF A TRILLION-TRILLION FURNACES
INTO A SINGLE POINT IN SPACE
SOUNDS LIKE AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
BUT I BELIEVE IT COULD BE DONE, AND THIS IS HOW I'D DO IT.
IMAGINE -- IF I CAN CREATE A BATTERY OF LASER BEAMS
THAT CONCENTRATE ENERGY TO A SINGLE POINT,
I CAN HEAT A FEW GRAMS OF MATERIALS
TO TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS OF DEGREES
UNTIL SPACE BOILS.
THE SCALE OF THE SYSTEM
WOULD BE LITERALLY OUT OF THIS WORLD...
A LARGE NUMBER OF ENORMOUS LASER MACHINES
BUILT ON DIFFERENT PLANETS AND ASTEROIDS
ALL FIRING SIMULTANEOUSLY TO A SINGLE POINT IN SPACE.
THERE, A PELLET OF MATTER EXPLODES
IN A THERMONUCLEAR BURN.
SPACE BOILS, AND A TINY BUBBLE IS BORN
FOR THE GENESIS OF A BIG BANG.
LET'S SAY, RIGHT HERE, WE CREATE THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY
TO CREATE A BABY UNIVERSE.
WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE?
THE NEW UNIVERSE WOULD NOT POP OUT AND DESTROY OUR UNIVERSE.
THAT WOULD BE A DISASTER, RIGHT?
HAVING A UNIVERSE INSIDE A UNIVERSE?
A UNIVERSE INSIDE A UNIVERSE DOES NOT SOUND VERY SAFE TO ME,
BUT FORTUNATELY, THE LAWS OF PHYSICS TELL US
THAT THAT'S NOT WHAT WILL HAPPEN.
THE NEW UNIVERSE, INSTEAD, ACTUALLY CREATES ITS OWN SPACE
AND BULGES OUT INTO WHAT YOU MIGHT CONSIDER
ANOTHER DIMENSION.
AND WHAT YOU WOULD SEE FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW
IS THIS TINY SPHERE SUDDENLY JUST DISAPPEARING.
POOF -- NOTHING THERE ANYMORE.
THE BABY UNIVERSE BUDS OFF FROM OUR OWN INTO ANOTHER DIMENSION.
BUT JUST BEFORE IT DISAPPEARS,
A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY OPENS...
A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE BUBBLE UNIVERSES.
LIKE THE RABBIT HOLE IN "ALICE IN WONDERLAND,"
TRAVELING THROUGH THIS BRIDGE
WOULD LEAVE THE OLD WORLD BEHIND
AND TAKE US TO A WHOLE NEW, PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
THE HOLE WOULD BE VERY SMALL
AND WOULD DISAPPEAR VERY QUICKLY,
UNLESS YOU INVENTED SOME WAY TO STABILIZE IT.
IT WOULD DISAPPEAR IN ABOUT 10 TO THE MINUS-37 SECONDS.
SO, IF WE'RE IN A STARSHIP
TRAVELING NEAR THE SPEED OF LIGHT...
EVEN THE FIRST ATOM IN THAT ROCKET SHIP
APPROACHING THE HOLE WOULD NOT MAKE IT THROUGH.
A GATEWAY THAT SLAMS SHUT THIS QUICKLY IS NO GOOD AT ALL.
BUT I'VE GOT AN IDEA FOR KEEPING IT OPEN.
PHYSICS PREDICTS A STRANGE MATERIAL
CALLED NEGATIVE MATTER,
WHICH REPELS ORDINARY MATTER
AND SO HAS ANTIGRAVITATIONAL PROPERTIES.
IF I PUT SOME INSIDE THE HOLE,
THIS SHOULD PREVENT IT FROM PINCHING SHUT
AND WILL ALSO MAKE IT WIDER.
I'LL HAVE CREATED A GATEWAY TO A BABY UNIVERSE.
THE VERY IDEA OF USING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS
TO OPEN A GATEWAY TO A BABY UNIVERSE
IS A FANTASTIC ONE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A PROBLEM.
THE BABY UNIVERSE I'LL FIND MYSELF IN
WILL BE IN THE MIDDLE OF A BIG-BANG EXPLOSION.
EVEN IF I CAN SURVIVE
THE INCREDIBLE TEMPERATURES AND RADIATION,
I'LL HAVE TO WAIT BILLIONS OF YEARS
FOR THE FIRST STARS AND PLANETS TO FORM.
CLEARLY, MAKING MY OWN UNIVERSE ISN'T GONNA WORK.
WHAT I NEED TO DO
IS TO FIND A GATEWAY BETWEEN TWO EXISTING UNIVERSES.
I'M TRYING TO OPEN A GATEWAY TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
LIKE THE ONES WE SEE IN SCIENCE FICTION.
SO FAR, I'VE INVESTIGATED TWO DIFFERENT TYPES
OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
BUT NEITHER TYPE WAS QUITE WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.
LUCKILY FOR ME, THERE'S A THIRD OPTION.
Dr. Kaku: IN PHILIP PULLMAN'S "DARK MATERIALS" TRILOGY,
STRANGE, BIZARRE WORLD COEXIST IN PARALLEL WITH OURS,
SEPARATED BY A DIMENSION.
TO TRAVEL BETWEEN THESE DIMENSIONS,
THE HEROES TAKE A SPECIAL KNIFE THAT ALLOWS THEM TO SLICE
THROUGH THE FABRIC OF SPACE AND TIME.
THE LATEST THINKING IN PHYSICS SUGGESTS THAT SUCH WORLDS,
LITERALLY ON TOP OF OUR OWN,
ARE FAR FROM FICTION.
IN FACT, OUR UNIVERSE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO EXIST WITHOUT THEM.
THE TRICK IS GOING TO BE FINDING A KNIFE
SHARP ENOUGH TO VISIT ONE.
I THINK THE ORDINARY CONCEPTION OF REALITY WE NOW KNOW
IS COMPLETELY WRONG.
NEIL TUROK BELIEVES THAT MOST OF THE GRAVITY
THAT HOLDS OUR UNIVERSE TOGETHER
COMES NOT FROM OUR UNIVERSE,
BUT FROM A PARALLEL UNIVERSE THAT'S INCREDIBLY CLOSE BY
BUT HIDDEN IN ANOTHER DIMENSION --
A SO-CALLED MEMBRANE, OR BRAIN UNIVERSE.
ACCORDING TO BRAIN THEORY,
THERE HAVE TO BE AT LEAST TWO UNIVERSES.
THERE'S ONE THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLD --
LET'S SAY THE ONE WE LIVE IN --
AND THERE'S A PARALLEL ONE NEXT DOOR TO IT.
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THESE WORLDS IS VERY, VERY TINY.
IT'S MUCH SMALLER THAN THE SIZE OF AN ATOMIC NUCLEUS.
SO, WHEN WE SAY THEY'RE PARALLEL WORLDS, FOR EVERYDAY PURPOSES,
IT'S AS IF THEY'RE REALLY ON TOP OF EACH OTHER.
BRAIN THEORY TELLS US
THAT NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO IN OUR UNIVERSE,
THERE'S A PARALLEL UNIVERSE A TINY DISTANCE AWAY,
CLOSER THAN THE CLOTHES YOU'RE WEARING.
BUT WE CAN'T SEE THIS WORLD
BECAUSE IT'S HIDDEN IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION.
TRYING TO VISUALIZE A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
THAT'S ALL AROUND US BUT HIDDEN IN ANOTHER DIMENSION
IS IMPOSSIBLY DIFFICULT.
BUT THERE'S A CLEVER TRICK TO HELP VISUALIZE IT MORE CLEARLY.
IN THE SAME WAY THAT A MAP
FLATTENS THE FEATURES OF A CITY,
YOU CAN FLATTEN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
IGNORE ONE OF ITS DIMENSIONS,
AND YOU GET A TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEMBRANE.
IMAGINE THAT THE UNIVERSE, WITH ALL ITS STARS AND GALAXIES,
CAN BE REPRESENTED AS A MEMBRANE.
THINK OF IT AS A BEDSHEET.
THIS SHEET HAS EVERY ATOM IN THE UNIVERSE STUCK TO IT
LIKE FLIES TO FLYPAPER.
BUT IT'S NOT THE ONLY SHEET THAT APPEARS.
THE WORLD THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY ALL AROUND US
BECOMES A SECOND SHEET HANGING IN PARALLEL NEXT TO OURS.
AND THE GAP BETWEEN THE SHEETS
IS THE DIMENSION THAT SEPARATES US.
IN BRAIN THEORY, THERE'S THIS TANTALIZING POSSIBILITY
OF ANOTHER UNIVERSE HOVERING JUST NEXT TO US IN PARALLEL.
NOW, NORMALLY, TRAVEL BETWEEN UNIVERSES IS IMPOSSIBLE,
'CAUSE AFTER ALL, WE'RE LIKE FLIES STUCK ON FLYPAPER
AND WE'RE SEPARATED BY ANOTHER DIMENSION.
BUT IF WE CAN SOMEHOW CONCENTRATE
VAST AMOUNTS OF COSMIC ENERGY AT AT SINGLE POINT,
IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO BUILD A TUNNEL.
THIS IS JUST WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR --
AN EXISTING, STABLE, FULLY FORMED PARALLEL UNIVERSE
RIGHT ON OUR DOORSTEP.
TO TUNNEL THROUGH TO IT, ALL I NEED IS ENERGY,
A LOT OF ENERGY.
IN FACT, IT'S A QUADRILLION TIMES MORE
THAN IT'S CURRENTLY POSSIBLE TO GENERATE ON EARTH.
THE BIGGEST BANGS HERE ARE CREATED INSIDE ATOM SMASHERS --
GIGANTIC RING-SHAPED MACHINES THE SIZE OF A CITY.
BUT TO REACH A BRAIN UNIVERSE,
I'M GONNA HAVE TO SCALE THINGS UP CONSIDERABLY.
ENGINEERING ISN'T THE ONLY PROBLEM.
THE OTHER UNIVERSE MAY HAVE DIFFERENT LAWS OF PHYSICS
THAT RIP MY BODY TO SHREDS
WHEN I PASS THROUGH THE GATEWAY.
I NEED A PLAN THAT GETS ME TO THE OTHER SIDE IN ONE PIECE.
I'VE ALMOST COMPLETED
MY GATEWAY TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE...
A WORMHOLE THAT CUTS THROUGH DIMENSIONS TO A BRAIN WORLD.
BEFORE I TEST IT OUT WITH THE SCI-FI FANS,
THERE IS ONE LAST THING TO TAKE CARE OF.
WORMHOLES ARE A JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER OR NOT
THESE PARALLEL UNIVERSES CAN SUSTAIN LIFE OR NOT.
BUT I HAVE AN IDEA -- USE REMOTE-CONTROLLED PROBES.
THERE'S A CHANCE THAT THE WORMHOLE MAY BE TINY --
EVEN ATOMIC IN SIZE.
BUT THAT'S WHERE WE COULD USE NANOTECHNOLOGY
TO CREATE A MOLECULAR PROBE
CONTAINING OUR DNA AND OUR INFORMATION
THROUGH THE WORMHOLE
TO RE-CREATE A COPY OF OURSELVES AND OUR CIVILIZATION
ON THE OTHER SIDE.
THINK OF THEM AS SEEDS --
HARDY CONTAINERS PROGRAMMED TO FIND AN EARTHLIKE PLANET.
ONCE THERE, THEY USE A STOCKPILE
OF ATOMS AND REPLICATOR TECHNOLOGY
TO ASSEMBLE AN EXACT COPY OF ME,
WITH MY BODY, PERSONALITY, AND EVEN MY MEMORIES.
THESE ROBOTIC SEEDS ARE THE FINAL COMPONENT I NEED
TO COMPLETE MY JOURNEY TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
ALL I HAVE TO DO NOW
IS TAKE IT FOR A TEST-DRIVE WITH THE SCI-FI FANS
AND SEE IF THEY LIKE IT AS MUCH AS I DO.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
TODAY, I'M GONNA PRESENT FOR YOU
PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST FANTASTIC SCHEMES
THAT PUSH THE VERY BOUNDARIES OF PHYSICS.
WE'RE GONNA CREATE A GATEWAY,
A PORTHOLE TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE.
TO OPEN A PORTHOLE,
THE PHYSICS REQUIRES FABULOUS AMOUNTS OF ENERGY.
TO GENERATE IT,
I'LL BUILD AN ATOM SMASHER HALF A BILLION MILES LONG,
CONSTRUCTED AROUND THE ASTEROID BELT OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.
TO ACTIVATE MY STARGATE, I FIRE TWIN BEAMS OF PARTICLES
IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS TOWARD SPACE STATIONS.
HERE'S WHERE WE HAVE ENORMOUSLY POWERFUL MAGNETIC FIELDS.
MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELDS BEND THE PARTICLES
AS THEY WHIP AROUND THE ASTEROID BELT.
THE ACCELERATED BEAMS ARE GRADUALLY BENT
INTO AN ELEGANT ORBIT AROUND THE SUN
BY A SUCCESSION OF BASES.
SO, WE HAVE TWO BEAMS GOING LIKE SO IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS,
MAKING MULTIPLE PASSES, GETTING FASTER AND FASTER AND FASTER,
UNTIL THEY FINALLY COLLIDE.
THE COLLISION SPARKS AN EXPLOSION OF ENERGY
SO POWERFUL,
IT ACTUALLY RIPS A TINY HOLE IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE.
TO STABILIZE IT,
WE HAVE TO INJECT SOMETHING CALLED NEGATIVE MATTER.
THIS ALSO MAKES THE OPENING WIDER,
SO IT FORMS A WORMHOLE.
I CAN NOW SEND MY PAYLOAD THROUGH THE GATEWAY.
WE'RE GONNA INJECT TINY, LITTLE MOLECULAR ROBOTS.
I WILL HAVE ALREADY PROGRAMMED THESE ROBOTS
WITH ALL THE INFORMATION NECESSARY
TO SEEK OUT HABITABLE PLANETS
AND CONSTRUCT A NEW ME ON THE OTHER SIDE.
THE ADVANTAGE OF THIS DESIGN
IS THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO COME BACK.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A RETURN TICKET.
IT'S A ONE-WAY TRIP THROUGH, BUT THAT'S OKAY,
'CAUSE WE'RE RE-CREATING A COPY OF OURSELVES
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STARGATE.
ALL OUR MEMORIES, DREAM, HOPES, THE DNA OF OUR BODIES,
CIVILIZATION ITSELF CAN BE RE-CREATED
WITH THIS ONE-WAY TICKET THROUGH THE RABBIT HOLE.
IT'S JUST SO FANTASTICAL THAT I'M HAVING A HARD TIME
GETTING, YOU KNOW, MY BRAIN AROUND IT.
I LIKE THE IDEA
THAT THERE MIGHT BE ANOTHER ONE OF ME SOMEWHERE ELSE.
IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE, I HOPE I'M NOT AS LAZY AS I AM.
I HOPE I'M PRODUCTIVE
AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE A LOVELY HOUSE AND, YOU KNOW, SIX KIDS.
AND IT'S AMAZING THAT IT COULD BE POSSIBLE.
HE ENGINEERED, SO HE HAS THE BLUEPRINTS.
SO, WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS. I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT.