Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site trwrba.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrba!mnw From: mnw@trwrba.UUCP (Michael N. Washington) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Re: What's a Warp Message-ID: <1040@trwrba.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 11:09:55 EDT Article-I.D.: trwrba.1040 Posted: Mon Oct 22 11:09:55 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Oct-84 02:45:43 EDT Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 27 >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. Then warp 8 would be 512*c. This >is still really insufficient for interstellar distances, but at least it >sounds fast enough to satisfy many people. -- > Barry Margolin > ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics > UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar ------------ B. Margolin was partially right. Warp speed is defined as N^3*c for the velocity not N^2*c. I have a copy of the Star Trek Concordance and the first equation is the definition given. "Live Long and Prosper!" Michael N. Washington TRW E&DS Redondo Beach, Ca. 90278 {ucbvax,decvax,hplabs}!trwrb!trwrba!mnw