Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!uscvax!tli From: tli@uscvax.UUCP (Tony Li) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: phasers and warp speed Message-ID: <1255@uscvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 02:55:15 EST Article-I.D.: uscvax.1255 Posted: Sat Dec 8 02:55:15 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 06:15:48 EST References: <284@uf-csg.UUCP> Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA Lines: 20 > > In the episode with the Romulan cloaking device (Balance of Terror?), > after Spock is found and beamed aboard, the Enterprise warps out at warp > factor 9. Now, whatever speed this is, it is faster than light. How can a > phaser, developed from the laser, hit *anything* moving trans c???? > > Pete Hardie, Univ. of Florida, CIS Gould > acct:..!akgua!uf-csv!uf-csg!hardie A phaser, to move faster than light, must be encased in a warp field. If a phaser ever leaves a warp field, then it must drop back into normal space and would have an upper bound of c. Hence, to fire phasers, you must extend your warp field to intersect your opponents, and then let fly with the phaser. -- Tony Li ;-) Usc Computer Science Uucp: {sdcrdcf,randvax}!uscvax!tli Csnet: tli@usc-cse.csnet Arpa: tli@usc-ecl