comfortably from place to place in a blink of an eye. that s essentially the dream of the hyper loop. what is the hyper loop? it s very similar to an airplane on high altitudes. you have a low pressure environment inside a a tube, a capsule that doesn t touch anywhere, it hovers and because the low pressure doesn t encounter a lot of resistance. this concept of traveling around in tubes has been around for more than a century. then in 2013, they drafted up actual blueprints and put the challenge of building it to the engineering community. enter ucla. it s an unconventional system. so you sort of have to invent everything from the ground up. do we know what it s going to feel like traveling that fast? you ll accelerate, you ll feel almost no sense of motion. do you feel like you re working on a project that s really going to change the future? absolutely. if i have a date and i want to