![]() In 1935, a little article he wrote with colleague, Nathan Rosen, proposed this funnel that spanned from one point in spacetime to another. Where did the idea of a wormhole come from? ![]() A physical rainbow colored bridge that you walk across: Thor movies.Wormhole gates (with two sub categories).Huge tunnel in space that connects two different points. ![]() The Bifrost from Asgard, the ship-sized gates in Honorverse by Weber, the human-sized gates in Stargate, and the “Jump” in Asimov. (Although We are Bob is a close second.) 3) Wormholes or Einstein-Rosen bridges or… Warp Factorĭefiant’s maximum speed (“The Sound of Her Voice” )Īnd what better book to pair with Star Trek FTL than John Scalzi’s Redshirts? I have to give you the graph that I found. Which gives me a little ray of geeky happiness. So back in the 1990’s, Star Trek: Next Generation rewrote the science and terminology of their warp drive to incorporate this new theory of FTL using a space bubble, and in the next few years… it might be proven. We’re still working on proving it in a lab in Houston, TX, but the work is in progress. What if it’s not the ship that’s going faster than the speed of light? What if the ship is inside of a bubble of space, and the space is going faster than the speed of light? Y’all, the physics works! That’s right. (Pioneering physicist and–that’s right–hardcore Trekkie). Good story reasons.īut then came Next Generation and–this is where I geek–they modified the science to include Miguel Alcubierre’s theories. Of course, physics dictated that this would also crush the ship, but Roddenberry ignored this for story reasons. This made so much energy that the ship was propelled faster than light speed. In the original, Roddenberry created a “warp drive” that collided matter and anti-matter. #FTL BASILISK SERIES#The perfect book series to pair with Star Wars Hyperspace is, of course, Thrawn. ![]() Not surprisingly, Star Wars was more interested in making the hyperspace special effects realistic and REALLY COOL than in exactly explaining the science. Need longer for a training session and theological discussion about the Force? Then the trip will take a little longer.Īnd that’s it. Just need time for a single snarky comment and audience reaction? Cool, the ship will get there in under a minute. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) So, this is where science gracefully bows out and lets story do the heavy lifting. “Traveling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?” ~IV: A New Hope So how fast are they going? How long does it take to get from point A to point B? Which explains how a big battleship can go through an even bigger dreadnought destroyer. Hyperspace is not a temporal anomaly outside of our regular space-time. But how does Star Wars specifically feel about the whole lightspeed travel subject? Basically, in Star Wars, a ship going lightspeed is simply going really, really, really-really fast. ![]()
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