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re: Warp Speed
Posted on 5/13/22 at 11:36 am to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 5/13/22 at 11:36 am to RogerTheShrubber
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From my understanding the actual ship wouldn't reach high speeds, it just contains a warp drive that compresses and decompresses spacetime,
This made me think of light “speed.” From the perspective of a photon it isn’t moving at all, since time slows down proportionately to speed.
So, at light speed time stops. Could it be that a photon moves through spacetime in a similar way that an object theoretically could using the Alcubierre method?
Obviously the structure of spacetime accommodates massless particles in their movement. If so it would seem that a scale of this accommodation should exist for particles with mass, and that scale should be alterable.
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Posted on 5/13/22 at 11:40 am to jbraua
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But even if it did, how useful would it be? Sure we could get a great distance in a short time relative to the traveler, but (if I understand correctly) time on earth would pass at a different rate relative to the solar system. So essentially you could go on a warp flight around the cosmos, but when you got home hundreds or thousands of years would have passed on earth and everyone you knew would be long dead.
But it could also be practical. Imagine being able to travel to the outer solar system in a few hours or to Alpha Centauri in a month.
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