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Mysterion , Feb 24, I thought it was funny that it was stated that it would take them a matter of hours, but in the 30 seconds or so they were in slipstream, they made it all the way to the edge of the Alpha Quadrant, which would be the vast majority of the trip.
Magisterfrodo , Feb 24, Yeah, bit of compressed time for dramatic purposes there, which is why I am wary of taking any measurements directly from the Dauntless jaunt in "Hope and Fear. Still, we should probably assume that quantum slipstream drive, borked as it is, appears capable of a range of speeds that can match even the transwarp hub business glimpsed at the end of Voyager. Seven of Nine did comment on QSD's similarity to transwarp conduits, which also appear to have a range of speeds depending on implementation but a very, very high top end.
JNG , Feb 25, Herkimer Jitty , Feb 25, Cmdr Sho , Feb 25, You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. Or how much additional lifespan would you get when giving up a car?
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You've probably heard it before -- this law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It simply means that for every interaction between two objects, a pair of forces is working on both of them. For instance, if you roll one billiard ball straight into another one that's at rest, they will both exert an equal force on each other.
The moving ball will hit the ball at rest and push it away, but it will also be pushed back by the latter. You feel this law come into play every time you accelerate in a car or fly in an airplane. As the vehicle speeds up and moves forward, you feel pressure on your seat. The seat is pushing on you, but you're also exerting a force against the seat. So what does this have to do with "Star Trek" and the Enterprise? Even if it were possible to accelerate to something like half the speed of light, such intense acceleration would kill a person by smashing him against his seat.
Even though he'd be pushing back with an equal and opposite force, his mass compared to the starship is just too small -- the same kind of thing happens when a mosquito hits your windshield and splatters. So how can the Enterprise possibly go faster than the speed of light without killing the members on board?
In the next section, we'll see how the "Star Trek" creators began to get around the problem of sending matter through space at superluminal speeds. In order to sidestep the issue of Newton's Third Law of Motion and the impossibility of matter traveling faster than the speed of light , we can look to Einstein and the relationship between space and time.
Taken together, space, consisting of three dimensions up-down, left-right, and forward-backward and time are all part of what's called the space-time continuum. It's important to understand Einstein's work on the space-time continuum and how it relates to the Enterprise traveling through space. In his Special Theory of Relativity , Einstein states two postulates:. The speed of light about ,, meters per second is the same for all observers, whether or not they're moving.
Anyone moving at a constant speed should observe the same physical laws. Putting these two ideas together, Einstein realized that space and time are relative -- an object in motion actually experiences time at a slower rate than one at rest.
Although this may seem absurd to us, we travel incredibly slow when compared to the speed of light, so we don't notice the hands on our watches ticking slower when we're running or traveling on an airplane. Scientists have actually proved this phenomenon by sending atomic clocks up with high-speed rocket ships.
They returned to Earth slightly behind the clocks on the ground. What does this mean for the Captain Kirk and his team? The closer an object gets to the speed of light, that object actually experiences time at a significantly slower rate. If the Enterprise were traveling safely at close to the speed of light to the center of our galaxy from Earth, it would take 25, years of Earth time.
For the crew, however, the trip would probably only take 10 years. Although that timeframe might be possible for the individuals onboard, we're presented with yet another problem -- a Federation attempting to run an intergalactic civilization would run into some problems if it took 50, years for a starship to hit the center of our galaxy and come back. So the Enterprise has to avoid the speed of light in order to keep the passengers onboard in synch with Federation time.
At the same time, it also must reach speeds faster than that of light in order to move around the universe in an efficient manner. Unfortunately, as Einstein states in his Special Theory of Relativity, nothing is faster than the speed of light.
Space travel therefore would be impossible if we're looking at the special relativity. That's why we need to look at Einstein's later theory, the General Theory of Relativity , which describes how gravity affects the shape of space and flow of time. The thing is, while clouds reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth, they don't completely block the sun's rays. So assuming the clouds in Forks didn't plunge the city into complete darkness, shouldn't the vampires still have sparkled outside, just a little less vibrantly?
Why was Edward stepping out in the sun in Volterra in New Moon such a big deal? We get that it's against Volturi law for vampires to be noticed in open sunlight lest they be seen by humans sparkling and thereby, expose themselves as vampires.
Which is what a depressed Edward does in New Moon, to try to force the Volturi to kill him. The thing is, in the Twilight universe, most people believed the standard widely-held vampire myths.
So as far as anyone who wasn't a vampire was concerned, a vampire getting hit by sunlight would burst into flames, not sparkle like a glittery disco ball. If Edward had stepped into the sunlight in Volterra, most humans would have simply wondered if some pale guy had doused himself in a bunch of craft store glitter, not assumed he was a vampire.
And why did Edward have to travel all the way to Volterra to reveal himself anyway?! Vampires were killed all the time by other vampires and the werewolves. Why didn't Edward just pick a fight with the Quileute tribe by breaking their treaty instead of traveling all the way to Volterra, Italy to "expose" himself as a vampire in front of the Volturi?
Then there's the fact that fire kills vampires. Both would have been much more efficient options. So dramatic! Bella's mind shield is able to block any vampire power that affects her brain. That's why Edward and Aro couldn't read her mind, Jane couldn't make her feel pain it was only creating the illusion of pain , and Zafrina couldn't make her see visual projections she was able to make everyone else see. Alice could to see her future, though, because Bella's future happens outside the mind.
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