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echo: startrek
to: MICHAEL MAREK
from: PETER SCHULLER
date: 1997-09-10 12:53:00
subject: Re: Warp 13

 >  PS> And again - no, traveling faster than Warp 10 is *impossible* because 
 > Wf10
 >  PS> is infinite speed, whichever speed that might be.
 > Sorry.  This is outdated information.  You may not hve seen the episode
 > yet, but in Voyager, Tom Paris went Warp 10 in an experimental
 > shuttlecraft.  The episode even showed him "occupying all points in the
 > universe at once."
I didn't say WF10 was impossible, *faster* than WF10 is, in the current 
ale.
We all know the linguistic definition of infinity (well, sorta anyway), and 
if 
you could travel faster than WF10...   that's a contradiction in terms. 
Because if you thought you were, you'd be wrong, then whichever speed you 
were 
traveling at, would *be* WF10... or less.
Look at it this way - you can't have an infinite number of shoes (or 
whatever), plus one. That's impossible. Because then whichever number you 
previously thought was infinity, that, plus one, would be infinity, or 
less. 
:)
/ Peter Schuller
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