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From: johnw@astroatc.UUCP
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Subject: distance and velocity
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 04:39:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 04:39:49 1985
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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????

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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)
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			John W

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