Is Star Trek really real.

[monetteman]

Do you think that star trek might be real in some alternate reality? Maybe in such a world, stupid facts about your life are debated over and over on some lame piece of crap bullitin board. This really is not all that great.......bye for now

 

[Michael]

Ask Quinn Mallory.

 

[RandyS]

Of course Star Trek is real. I beam up and down all the time.

Plus I live on the Enterprise.

 

[-Brett-]

Long answer: No.

 

[Kegek]

Long answer: No.

Short answer: As I understand the idea of alternate realities, the others must adhere to the same scientific laws that ours does. Star Trek has too many scientific impossibilites for it to be therefore real in any universe.

 

[erastus25]

Well, I believe the concept in Parallels was supposed to be based on a legit theory. If that theory is true then Star Trek probably really does exist in one universe. If so, I want to take a shuttlecraft over there.

 

[Kegek]

Well, I believe the concept in Parallels was supposed to be based on a legit theory.

Yep, but as I recall they took some liberties with the theory (beyond what I've noted). Apparently if anything could move between universes it'd be infintesmally small - definitely not anything as large as Worf and a shuttle.

 

[Wonderlust King]

actually it is completely real. there is evidence of James T. Kirk's visits to earth in the 20th century. Don't believe me, watch this informative youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad9Appw6afc

 

[Biggshow]

As long as parallel universes remain in the realm of speculation, almost anything is possible, including universes in which the laws of physics are subtly different, allowing things like transporters and humanoid creatures flying under their own power.

So, yes, given the above, Star Trek is real and we are all figments of Jake Sisko's imagination.

 

[erastus25]

Well, I believe the concept in Parallels was supposed to be based on a legit theory.

Yep, but as I recall they took some liberties with the theory (beyond what I've noted). Apparently if anything could move between universes it'd be infintesmally small - definitely not anything as large as Worf and a shuttle.

Yeah, I think you're right. I remember that it has something to do with quantum mechanics and some probability theory, but I can't remember the specific name!

 

[darkshadow0001]

Do you think that star trek might be real in some alternate reality? Maybe in such a world, stupid facts about your life are debated over and over on some lame piece of crap bullitin board. This really is not all that great.......bye for now

Eventually. But I don't think we'll have ships like the Enterprise. I think it may be more like DS9's runabouts. If our government would stop telling lies that aliens don't exist, they could capture an alien ship and learn how they work and create our own flying saucer and then we can go to other worlds.

 

[Mr. Fergy]

It's possible in some alternate universe.

 

[WarriorPrincess]

Star Trek is VERY real!!!

 

[Bill Morris]

It's a dramatization of actual events as reported to Paramount by the Guardian of Forever.

 

[Warp14]

I thought the Star Trek television series was part of the "Great Plan" for earthlings to become accustomed to life and interactions with alien species. Such as the human looking ones currently living among us now but following some version of the Prime Directive.

No?

 

[spoon]

Ask Quinn Mallory.

I love you like none other.


AKA spoon gets it


Watch, we are all just a holonovel. A very, very long one.

 

[Valin]

Ask Quinn Mallory.

I love you like none other.


AKA spoon gets it


Watch, we are all just a holonovel. A very, very long one.

With such a large cast of characters, it must be a Russian holonovel.

 

[RandyS]

Well, I believe the concept in Parallels was supposed to be based on a legit theory. If that theory is true then Star Trek probably really does exist in one universe. If so, I want to take a shuttlecraft over there.

Hey, swing by my house and pick me up will you? There's room for my wheelchair in your shuttle right?

 

[Nebusj]

Well, I believe the concept in Parallels was supposed to be based on a legit theory.

Yep, but as I recall they took some liberties with the theory (beyond what I've noted). Apparently if anything could move between universes it'd be infintesmally small - definitely not anything as large as Worf and a shuttle.

Yeah, I think you're right. I remember that it has something to do with quantum mechanics and some probability theory, but I can't remember the specific name!

It's the ``many-worlds'' interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. This is an attempt to explain what is ``really'' going on with some of the stranger features of the system. There are many ways to explain what quantum mechanics means and to date there's no known way to distinguish between the interpretations, so this is as valid as about eight other views you might prefer.

In the many-worlds interpretation, there are actually uncountably infinitely many alternate universes and every possible configuration of everything happens somewhere in this superset of universes. The things which look, to us, like the uncertainty principle or the side effects of the entanglement of particles are in this view our determining what universes we're in compared to the many ones which look a great deal like it.

As has been observed, this interpretation resolves the ways that quantum mechanics is most obnoxiously unlike ordinary mechanics, but it's also profligate of universes. That doesn't mean it's not a great gimmick to use in science fiction, of course, and as such it's probably better-grounded in known science than warp drives or artificial gravity are.

 

[Deks]

Is it possible that alternate universes have the same laws of physics as our own?

I mean, let's face it people, we barely know anything about how our universe functions and we still haven't left this rock to colonize other worlds.
What makes you so sure that the technology in Trek (regardless of how wild) as depicted on screen is 'fundamentally impossible' to be achieved in our reality?

There are theories behind possibility of Warp drive and even transporters.
I would say that given enough time, it would be possible to achieve both goals in this reality.
It's also possible we will give up on that and focus on something else.