09-09-2002, 08:13 PM
Been a long time since I looked it up, but the warp field has the effect of minimizing the "friction" that makes lightspeed the ultimate speed limit. The star fleet symbol is supposed to be some kind of the power curves or something. And yeah, it's all just a lame justification for a vague idea Roddenbury used for the show. Wasn't until ST:TNG that the writers started talking to real scientists and using real theories mixed in with all the pseudo-science crap.
There is a really amazing novel about the relativity effect your talking about. In the book, earth picks up signs of a fleet of alien ships off in the distance end of the galaxy. They put together a crew and send them out and 80% the speed of light. For them the trip was about 10 years each way while on earth about 10,000 years would go by. They're familied died of old age before they'd been gone a few weeks. Can't remember the name of the book right now.
There is a really amazing novel about the relativity effect your talking about. In the book, earth picks up signs of a fleet of alien ships off in the distance end of the galaxy. They put together a crew and send them out and 80% the speed of light. For them the trip was about 10 years each way while on earth about 10,000 years would go by. They're familied died of old age before they'd been gone a few weeks. Can't remember the name of the book right now.
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