TOS Warp Factors

[Jenna James 0]

Hey there,

 

It was a generalization Mr. Kroells. Not an actual conversion formula. :D

Hey, you could of said that before I went and made and arse of my self.

Ah, but Travis, you make such a delightful arse :)

[Travis Kroells 0]

::cant decide if thats a compliment, or if she thinks I just have a nice arse::

[Travis Kroells 0]

All I'm trying to say is: achieving 'infinite speed' is equally meaningless.

 

Here's one way to interpret exceeding it, though:

Infinite speed gets you anywhere in 0 time.  That means that you arrive at your destination (and, every other destination, for that matter) the moment you leave.  Exceeding infinite speed gets you anywhere in negative time.  That means you get there before you left -- in other words, backwards time travel.

::Travels back to august 8th 1:44 p.m.::  Like this?

[Travis Kroells 0]

Wow, a back, to back to back post...not intentional at all...Any ways...Heres Einstiens view.

 

Time can only be affected by two things, Gravity and speed.  Intense Gravity (As in that of a black hole) will actually slow time down, so that those that are say...ten light years away, experience one year, where as those 100 light years away expericence 10, or something like that.  Im sure he made an equition for it, but its 2 am and im not going digging into the net this late at night.

 

As for speed, the faster you go, the more time slows around you.  The closer you get to the speed of light, the greater the slow down.  When you finaly get to the speed of light, time stops, around you.  Naturaly, at the same point if you go faster then light, time goes in reverse, hence forth getting you their before you left.  Think of it as going to Califorina, but getting there before you decide your going.  But then again, light moves so fast, you'd only be traviling a fraction of a second, even less the faster you go, so techinaly, moving any where on the earth wouldnt cause too much of a time delay, or slow down, or even a reverse.  So technically by Mr. Loami's standards, breaking infinite speed would be breaking the speed of light.

 

Well they to that on ST you say!  Yes, but the term of warp is the fact that you dont actually break the speed of light, technically.  Ever wondered what a warp field is?  Somthing to do with subspace and junk surrounding the ship, (Boy I sure know what a warp field is!   :D  )  Any way, you travel at that speed, with out the time altering effects.

 

Any one remember best of both worlds?  Remember how long it took the enterprise to get to wolf 359 at warp nine?  Couple hours i think...  Do you have any idea on the amount of time they'd travel back, when they'd have gotten and wolf?  

 

The time delay, and then freeze when you get to the speed of light is exponential, so the reverse of time would also be exponential in a reverse degree.  By the time the enterprise got there, it'd be like 1979!  Picard would become the next Red Forman!  (Welsy you dumb***!  LOL JK!)

 

Err...I think Im done, I better be because other wise it'll be back, to back, to back, to back posts!  :)

[Nemesis 0]

Couldn't Warp 10 be considered the speed of time to where you can travel where ever you want and watse a moment in time

[LoAmi 0]

For a long time, moving faster than the speed of sound was seen as infinite speed by some.   :D

Never by a physicist!  (Although there's a really good Twilight Zone episode about time travel caused by breaking the sound barrier).

[LoAmi 0]

Couldn't Warp 10 be considered the speed of time to where you can travel where ever you want and watse a moment in time

No, that's the speed of television. :-)

[Anika818 0]

Couldn't Warp 10 be considered the speed of time to where you can travel where ever you want and watse a moment in time

No, that's the speed of television. :-)

:laugh:  :laugh: ROFLOL--that is so true!!! :laugh:  :laugh: