Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!ewan From: ewan@uw-june (Ewan Tempero) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: New discussion Message-ID: <418@uw-june> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 22:20:04 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-june.418 Posted: Thu Oct 24 22:20:04 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:30:00 EDT References: <353@uw-june.UUCP> <13100031@hp-pcd.UUCP> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 28 >John Eaton >function to near zero. The area in which a ships field will warp space to >a detectable amount is huge so that a incoming ship can be detected several >minutes away. ^^^^^^^ This is something else that has worried me a bit. If the thing's travelling at warp 6 ( which we all can agree is faster than the speed of light even if we're not sure by how much ) then how can you possibly detect it? Unless you have some sort of "beam" ( read radiation of some kind ) that goes whereever a ship goes when it warps space. >Another thing to consider is that a incoming ship at warp 6 will spend most >of its time deccelerating to a slow enough speed to use its weapons. It seems to me that if anything is going to go faster than light then it can't have inertia ( that comes from mass ) so doesn't that mean acceleration is "instantaneos"? -- Ewan ------------ Ewan Tempero "Oh no, not again" UUCP: ...!uw-beaver!uw-june!ewan ARPA: ewan@washington.ARPA Please check all nuclear arms at the door.