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Pshaw. Haven’t these twerps heard of “shields”?? Huh?? Huh??
That is why we use wormholes and StarBursts in reality. Jeez.
LLS
Warp drive is so mid-20th century. Give me a wormhole drive any day.
I bet they had a guy in a red shirt scrape the bugs off of the windshield.
LOL! That was my first thought.
Right!! Everybody knows that!!!!
Actually, it certainly is possible to travel close to the speed of light without subjecting the astronauts to fatal doses of radiation.
This is done by having an intense magnetic field that deflects the atoms in front of the starship. If this is projected far enough and is strong enough; virtually all particles will be redirected along the lines of magnetic force.
The shield will cause starship designs to be nonlinear, to keep the habitable sections away from the magnetic poles of the field, but that’s just engineering. After all, if the earth’s magnetic field shields us from harmful radiation; so too with a smaller, but much stronger field shield a starship.
Do these guys not understand what a warp bubble is? It is not the Enterprise that moves at light speed, it is the space around the Enterprise. Gees, do I have to explain everything.
Star Trek has solved the problem but what about the Millenium Falcon? Is it safe from this problem, too?
I wonder then how light photons can travel at “C” but not themselves be shredded by impacting hydrogen atoms as they travel through space...I wonder if the dual “wave”/”solid” properties that photons exhibit has something to do with their survival!
Star Trek= WARP SPEED!
Dude!
Shields made of super-dense neutron star matter should be able to protect passengers.
They miss the obvious. Light speed isn’t diddly in space travel. Just to get to Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to Earth, at 4.243 light years, at the speed of light takes, obviously, 4.243 years.
Enter speed of light doubling. Round off the distance to 4 light years, and at twice the speed of light it takes 2 years, four times the speed of light just 1 year, eight times the speed of light, six months....
32,786 times the speed of light, 1 hr and 8 minutes. About. Just to get to a star that is “right next door.”
But now the good news. Welcome to the world of tachyons.
Tachyons are theoretical faster than light particles. Theoretical because they have never been observed, or observed interacting with slower than light particles. That is, nothing has ever been observed going faster than light.
But they may have some very interesting properties, if they do exist.
For example, to reach the speed of light, a particle must gain an amazing amount of energy. But as soon as it crosses to a faster than light speed, instead of being the fastest slower than light particle, it becomes the *slowest* tachyon.
It cannot take on any more energy, so theoretically again, to keep going even faster, it has to give up energy. It no longer needs energy to accelerate. It has to give up energy to accelerate. Thus the fastest tachyons have very little energy at all.
So once a spaceship is going faster than light, the more it brakes, the faster it goes. It only needs a huge amount of energy to slow down enough to go back to slower than light speeds.
wormholes people!!
warp speed is not the speed of light now is it...
it is more like the Warp bubble of Alcubierre drive....if that is possible..
So where did this hypothesis come from?