Message-ID: <750@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 10:39:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.750
Posted: Mon Oct 22 10:39:31 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 00:50:29 EDT
References: <221@wjvax.UUCP> <2941@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: hobbit@gort.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri)
Organization: State University of New York @ Buffalo,NY
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In article <2941@mit-eddie.UUCP> barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
 > 
 > According to "The Star Fleet Handbook", and possibly also "The Making of
 > Star Trek", when you are going warp factor N you are traveling at N^2
 > times the speed of light.  So, if you go at the maximum safe velocity
 > (during the series) of warp 8 you are going 64*c.
 > 
 > Actually, this doesn't sound right for interstellar distances.  Maybe
 > I'm remembering wrong and it is N^3.  This is still really insufficient
 > for interstellar distances, but at least it sounds fast enough ...

I think you are remembering wrong!  I seem to recall in the "Star Fleet
Technical Manual" a relativity graph which shows a warp/time ratio.
According to that, warp N = 2^N times the speed of light.  Then warp
8 is 256*c.  This is still rather slow, but think!  Warp 12 = 4,096*c!

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