Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site astroatc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!astroatc!johnw From: johnw@astroatc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: distance and velocity Message-ID: <228@astroatc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 04:39:49 EST Article-I.D.: astroatc.228 Posted: Mon Nov 4 04:39:49 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 07:19:38 EST References: <847@nmtvax.UUCP> Reply-To: johnw@astroatc.UUCP (John F. Wardale) Distribution: na Organization: Astronautics ATC, Madison, WI Lines: 65 I'm an SF lover, and therefore hope that Einstein's theories don't hold universally. { Newton's laws stood from his time (17th or 18th century....please post bith/death dates if avail ....until Einstein found conditions wehre they failed (1905 and 1917? for Special and General Relativity) } Relativity doesn't make Newton's laws nill-and-void, its applied restric- tions, and the solves the super set problem. For this discustion, I assume there's a new "super-set law" that means that the speed of light, and its time/lenght/mass dialations are of little or no concern. How the physics of this works is *IMPOSSIBLE* to speculate on because no such physical law is presented. Now my questions: 1: How fast are each of the warp factors (in light units per unit of time or number of times faster than light abbreviated: Xc) A: Someone told me, and I feel it's wrong, that velocity (in Xc) = (warp-factor) cubed. 2: How big is our galaxy? A: My astonomy notes say something like 100,000 Lyr by 60,000 Lyr (Major/Minor axies of enclosing elipse) Can anyone varify this? 3: How big is the federations area of contact/exploration??? Hint: They left the galaxy twice, right? How many times did they go "galavanting half way across the galaxy?" (That's a quote by McCoy from "Gamsters of Triskelion" (the thrals, the providers (3 colored brains that bid quatlumes), the blue and yellow fighting trid....) It was last week's local showing. 4: When the XXXX's hijacked the Enterprise to go to Andromada,\ a: How fast did they make the big E go? b: How long did thy claim it would take to get there? c: How far away is Andromada? d: What Xc rate do we get for this, and does it match anything???? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Scratch work: assume that earth to edge of galactic core or edge of outer rim is about 20,000 Lry At warp 10 (by #1) = 1000 Xc This implies that said trip would take 20 years at warp 10. I like using velocity (Xc) = 10 to the power of the warp-factor. Then the above trip takes 20 years at warp3, 2 at warp4, 73 days at warp5, 1 week at warp6 (fasted "safe" speed) and 17 long, boring hours at warp7 (supposedly fastest speed) -- John W - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Name: John F. Wardale UUCP: ... {seismo | harvard | ihnp4} !uwvax!astroatc!johnw arpa: astroatc!johnw@rsch.wisc.edu snail: 5800 Cottage Gr. Rd. ;;; Madison WI 53716 audio: 608-221-9001 eXt 110 To err is human, to really foul up world news requires the net!