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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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There are some irrefutable truths: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and nothing can exceed the speed of light. And so travelling to far off planets in other solar systems remains a distant dream. Simply put, we will never have the capacity to reach those far-flung planets we see in the night sky. Or will we? Dr Miguel Alcubierre, is a theoretical physicist working at the ‘Nuclear Sciences Institute’ of the National Autonomous University of Mexico