Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: ST III novalization, warp speed and reaching Andromeda Message-ID: <471@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 14:18:53 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.471 Posted: Wed Nov 7 14:18:53 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 02:50:20 EST References: <3971@cbscc.UUCP> <207@spp2.UUCP> Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 38 Summary: > Article <207@spp2.UUCP>, from brahms@spp2.UUCP +---------------- | > As Zefram Cochrane pointed ou in 2053, actual warp speeds relative | >to the speed of light may be calculated by multiplying the warp factor | >cubed by a variable that accounts for the curvature of space in a fourth | >dimension by the presence of mass; subspace, a continuum in which a vessel | >under warp drive travels, is not curved in a fourth spatial dimension, | >and therefore offers a linear "short cut" between points in our galaxy. | >... and the transit time to | >the Andromeda galaxy becomes thousands rather than hundreds of years. | | Here is my question: | | In the ST-III Novelization, there are reports of a ship that has | reached the Andromeda galaxy. With the above formula, which seems much | more reasonable than (W^3)c=v, this would not be possible. | Any ideas or should we just ignore this at not being true ST? | Vonda McIntyre is much truer to ST than many authors (and screenwriters!). She was referring to a ship described in _T_h_e_ _E_n_t_r_o_p_y_ _E_f_f_e_c_t, an earlier ST novel of hers. As I remember it, it was a halfway point between transwarp and ordinary warp drives; and, being small, could attain transwarp speeds. 100^3(c)= fast enough, I think. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.' -- Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.'