math help

[Garak]

Originally Posted by SirTanon
.... quite the discrepancy. Because the writers of all of these Trek episodes are so many different people, and sometimes have to play with numbers and make things up, I tend to trust the scale provided by Michael Okuda as more accurate.. but who am I? I'm no warp engineer.

Okuda's name was once virtually a swear word on usenet.

 

[Onetor]

Worm hole! Instantaneous.

 

[StevieC]

I wonder if they would get there faster with a K&N sticker on the hull.

 

[Uphill_Both_Ways]

And a plasma catch can between the anti-matter injectors and dilithium-crystal recontstitution cavity.

 

[Nyogtha]

Originally Posted by danez_yoda
simple answer is warp = light speed. warp 9.9- 9.9X speed of light.

4 light years / 9.9x Speed of light = ~ 0.4 years. = 4.8 months = ~145 days

Of course due to time dilation you better stay at your new destination because everyone on the place you left would be thousands if years old.

Assuming Einstein was right.

Assuming no wormholes, thats cheating.. LOL

How do you know Warp 9 isn't the speed of light raised to the 9th power? An exponential function would make more sense considering the distances covered across the multiple TV series & movies.

 

[Kestas]

Just don't run into any space debris when traveling these journeys. A meteor here and there would be devastating.

 

[Wolf359]

Originally Posted by Kestas
Just don't run into any space debris when traveling these journeys. A meteor here and there would be devastating.


That's why they have deflector shields.

 

[anndel]

Kobayashi Maru

 

[aquariuscsm]

What about if you go faster than the speed of light? Ludicrous speed?

 

[KrisZ]

I prefer Dune way of travel using holtzman engines to fold the space and heavily mutated navigators that could see multiple pathways and navigate through obstacles. Instant travel, none of that warp nonsense.

 

[mk378]

"Warp speed" is a ficticious concept.

I thought it was a logarithmic scale like dB or Richter, for example warp 1.0 is 10 times the speed of light, 3.0 is 1000 times etc. The Enterprise could do about warp 8, or 100 million light years per actual year.

 

[Wolf359]

Originally Posted by mk378
"Warp speed" is a ficticious concept.

I thought it was a logarithmic scale like dB or Richter, for example warp 1.0 is 10 times the speed of light, 3.0 is 1000 times etc. The Enterprise could do about warp 8, or 100 million light years per actual year.


The whole show is fiction. Remember they had to modify the engines in some episode to visit another galaxy? Andromeda is the closest spiral galaxy at 2 million light years so it's unlikey they could do much more than 1000 to 30000 light years per year. Just depends on the show you happen to be watching.

 

[CharBaby]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1up3thBSPc

 

[SirTanon]

Originally Posted by mk378
"Warp speed" is a ficticious concept.

I thought it was a logarithmic scale like dB or Richter, for example warp 1.0 is 10 times the speed of light, 3.0 is 1000 times etc. The Enterprise could do about warp 8, or 100 million light years per actual year.


Well of course it's fictitious - Star Trek is a TV show/movie franchise, etc.. and I did mention my post, above, that it is logarithmic. It is not, however, powers of 10. At one point it was: Warp speed = (at least approximately) speed of light x (warp factor) ^ 3, which meant that Warp 1 was 'C' (the speed of light), Warp 2 was 8 times C, Warp 3 was 27 times C, etc.. although it seemed to change somewhat as you went higher.

Also, for a while, Warp 10 was unobtainable, and was considered "infinite speed" although there were numerous revisions over time.

 

[Pew]

Won't matter. You're going to be stuck at the armory on Earth cleaning weapons anyways.

 

[Pelican]

How many klingons birds of prey do you have to fight? That will have a huge effect in time.

 

[28oz]

Originally Posted by SirTanon
....Because the writers of all of these Trek episodes are so many different people, and sometimes have to play with numbers and make things up...


WHAAAAAA???? You monster! How can you say that??

In my nerd-dom, I'm still trying to figure out what exactly quantifies "FTL Jumps" in Battlestar Galactica (2004 remake). I get that it stands for "Faster Than LIght", but other than that, I don't know that it's ever been quantified in speed/time/distance measurements.

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted by SirTanon
Also, for a while, Warp 10 was unobtainable, and was considered "infinite speed" although there were numerous revisions over time.


Yep ... broken down on page 4 of this link.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/warp-speed.htm