To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: Garry Stahl 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

Steve Oostrom wrote:


> That's tricky.  When the ship (in Steve-Trek) jumps to warp, the warp
> engines generate
> a warpfield around the ship which essentially creates a child universe
> within the larger
> one.  Within this universe, the ship in fact remains at its sublight
> speed (with
> attendant relativistic effects), but is seen outside as travelling
> faster than light.  There
> is a discontinuity in the equations which implies that from the point
> of view of the
> ship, it is the whole universe that is accelerating past it, while the
> ship is maintaining
> its speed.  In other words, inertial dampening is not needed when the
> ship jumps to
> warp.
>
> This can lead to all kinds of technobabble fun about warpfields, exit
> and entry
> speeds, subspace factorization, sublight speed and more.
>

I'll have to consider that last one.

--
Garry   AKA   -Phoenix-   Rising Above the Flames

Star Trek le mort.  Viva la Star Trek admiraetur.

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