Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x01 - "Hegemony, Part II"

[Ovation]

some bad physics

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it's not that no spacecraft can go faster then light, it's that no spacecraft can accelerate faster then light within normal spacetime.

 

[Noname Given]

No, you didn't. It was J. Michael Straczynski.

- Yeah no it wasn't.

(You shouldn't believe enerything you read from Google AI. Fans were using that term LONG before JMS referenced it in Crusade.)

 

[Fateor]

If that distinction were important, we'd have "spacecraft [that] can go faster then [sic] light". Where are they? Show them to me. (By the way, it's not then, it's than.)

That distinction is actually very important and is why things like the Alcubierre drive are theoretically possible instead of completely impossible.

Next time you want to use that emote, maybe do your research instead of using ChatGPT to compose your answer for you.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

That distinction is actually very important and is why things like the Alcubierre drive are theoretically possible instead of completely impossible.

The Alcubierre drive is a mathematical solution of the relativistic field equations that is nevertheless not currently believed to provide the basis of a realizable faster-than-light drive. From the article you cite:

If exotic matter with the correct properties does not exist, then the drive cannot be constructed.​

This exotic matter is not known to exist, so the claim that the drive is even theoretically possible is unfounded.

Next time you want to use that emote, maybe do your research instead of using ChatGPT to compose your answer for you.

I've done my research, mountains of it, long before I read a single post by you.

Post proof I am using AI to compose my posts, or retract your fucking claim.

 

[gweeps]

I give it a 6. Felt rushed and the solution was a modern update of BoBW2.

Still have a real hard time hearing people speak. And the pacing for emotional sections remains terrible.

Thank god the Gorn shit is over.

Carol Kane's voice is awful.

 

[Fateor]

The Alcubierre drive is a mathematical solution of the relativistic field equations that is nevertheless not currently believed to provide the basis of a realizable faster-than-light drive. From the article you cite:

If exotic matter with the correct properties does not exist, then the drive cannot be constructed.​

This exotic matter is not known to exist, so the claim that the drive is even theoretically possible is unfounded.


I've done my research, mountains of it, long before I read a single post by you.

Post proof I am using AI to compose my posts, or retract your fucking claim.

You probably should have read the entire article.

At the close of his original article,[5] however, Alcubierre argued (following an argument developed by physicists analyzing traversable wormholes[6][7]) that the Casimir vacuum between parallel plates could fulfill the negative-energy requirement for the Alcubierre drive.

And no, you haven't done actual research on the subject, and I can tell you haven't because you didn't even know why the distinction I originally made is so important.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

You probably should have read the entire article.

I did read the entire article. More importantly, I've read Alcubierre's paper.

At the close of his original article,[5] however, Alcubierre argued (following an argument developed by physicists analyzing traversable wormholes[6][7]) that the Casimir vacuum between parallel plates could fulfill the negative-energy requirement for the Alcubierre drive.

That's an undemonstrated claim.

 

[Ovation]

Star Trek, in all its iterations, is…wait for it…wait…for…it…not real. That includes warp drive. And transporters. And humanoid aliens. And…well, you get the idea. Arguing about “the physics” of magic propulsion systems and their “capabilities” can certainly be entertaining but it hardly rises to the level of actual reality with demonstrable proof. It remains…speculative fiction. So far @CorporalCaptain seems to have a firmer grasp of this point.

 

[Mudd]

You are absolutely welcome to your opinion. I stand by mine that I find it annoying that creative choices are dictated by a 50 year old show.

Except that they're not. So there's that.

You probably should have read the entire article.

At the close of his original article,[5] however, Alcubierre argued (following an argument developed by physicists analyzing traversable wormholes[6][7]) that the Casimir vacuum between parallel plates could fulfill the negative-energy requirement for the Alcubierre drive.

And no, you haven't done actual research on the subject, and I can tell you haven't because you didn't even know why the distinction I originally made is so important.

No, he's absolutely right and you're mistaken.

Needs are just in love with this "drive" as the latest magic wand that's going to get pesky reality out of the way so we can have our space navies. It's just another chimera.

 

[gweeps]

Was thinking the Gorn ships, at least the way they fly, reminded me of Star Furies.