Warp Field?
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Have a litlle read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive It's wikipedia, so, take it as you will, but .theoretically. it might work. Try looking for the Micro Warp Drive, that's where it gets even more weird. Trust me, by the end of reading that, i was like this 
Plecostomus
Commodore
Well it works because someone made a bunch of sh*t up and said it works. I recommend you do the same. There is no "right" way to make warp-drive work because it is pretend.
If you need help making a plausible sounding babble, just ask. I use bits from Wiki, real-life engineering experience, and pure made-up sci-finess.
What's a micro-warp drive?
Plecostomus
Commodore
Ok, a warp-bubble as we saw on screen is a compact stand-alone bubble of energy.
Think of it as a soap-bubble.
As the field-energy decayed the "reality" inside the bubble decayed along with it.
Wes was just playing around with the warp-field systems as part of an experiment, and no one thought anything of it. For whatever reason (Wes's "powers", some unknown factor in the experiment, freak technobabble radiation) a separate reality was created for a brief time.
Now... the warp-field that drives the ship is asymmetric, from what I gather it's the shape of the field and the control of this field that pushes the ship forward. Propulsive-ly I don't see a "bubble" as having any real use...
All kinds of neat story ideas could emerge from scientists trying to recreate the "reality" bubble effect that was created in that episode... or you could create a weapon from it like Peter David did in Vendetta... Sky is the limit here, use your imagination.
Think of it as a soap-bubble.
As the field-energy decayed the "reality" inside the bubble decayed along with it.
Wes was just playing around with the warp-field systems as part of an experiment, and no one thought anything of it. For whatever reason (Wes's "powers", some unknown factor in the experiment, freak technobabble radiation) a separate reality was created for a brief time.
Now... the warp-field that drives the ship is asymmetric, from what I gather it's the shape of the field and the control of this field that pushes the ship forward. Propulsive-ly I don't see a "bubble" as having any real use...
All kinds of neat story ideas could emerge from scientists trying to recreate the "reality" bubble effect that was created in that episode... or you could create a weapon from it like Peter David did in Vendetta... Sky is the limit here, use your imagination.
So this field is generated by FIELD GENERATORS in the necells, right? Does the energy come from the warp core or the plasma from the core to generate this "field"?
And warp bubles are just energy? Like what kind of energy? I asume it is from the warp core....
Many thanks on helping me understand this!!
And warp bubles are just energy? Like what kind of energy? I asume it is from the warp core....
Many thanks on helping me understand this!!
The warp core is the main power source providing energy for everything else.
The warp field outside the ship would possibly be a joint venture between the main deflector dish and hull grids (used for creating shields).
Warp bubbles would mainly be based off energy force-fields much like shields, but they wouldn't be a barrier that prevents solid objects passing through like shields and force-fields do.
So it's essentially a subspace energy field in a form of a bubble around a ship called a 'warp bubble'.
The warp field outside the ship would possibly be a joint venture between the main deflector dish and hull grids (used for creating shields).
Warp bubbles would mainly be based off energy force-fields much like shields, but they wouldn't be a barrier that prevents solid objects passing through like shields and force-fields do.
So it's essentially a subspace energy field in a form of a bubble around a ship called a 'warp bubble'.
Plecostomus
Commodore
Ok a basic primer in warp-physics, Star Trek style.
More or less they take a stream of super-cold matter (cryogenic deuterium) and a stream of super-cold anti-hydrogen and bombard a dilithium crystal. The matter and antimatter combine making a bunch of exotic particles, gamma-rays, and heat. The crystal thanks to its technobabble properties focus this mess into a plasma-stream.
The plasma is fed to the warp nacelles, where it is injected into the cavity on the underside of enormous structures made out of exotic unobtanium. These structures are the warp-coils. They generate the field that makes the ship go. The blue glow around the naceles is secondary radiation bleeding from the heated coils at the field release gap.
Now this is more or less how it works in TNG, DSN, Voyger and for the most part Enterprise. TOS... things are a bit more confusing... for example there is ample dialog that puts the matter-antimater reaction in the nacelles, while other dialog seems to indicate the reactor(s!) are in the secondary hull. It's safe to say Kirk's original Enterprise operated on a different principle than the other ships in the show and leave it at that.
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More or less they take a stream of super-cold matter (cryogenic deuterium) and a stream of super-cold anti-hydrogen and bombard a dilithium crystal. The matter and antimatter combine making a bunch of exotic particles, gamma-rays, and heat. The crystal thanks to its technobabble properties focus this mess into a plasma-stream.
The plasma is fed to the warp nacelles, where it is injected into the cavity on the underside of enormous structures made out of exotic unobtanium. These structures are the warp-coils. They generate the field that makes the ship go. The blue glow around the naceles is secondary radiation bleeding from the heated coils at the field release gap.
Now this is more or less how it works in TNG, DSN, Voyger and for the most part Enterprise. TOS... things are a bit more confusing... for example there is ample dialog that puts the matter-antimater reaction in the nacelles, while other dialog seems to indicate the reactor(s!) are in the secondary hull. It's safe to say Kirk's original Enterprise operated on a different principle than the other ships in the show and leave it at that.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE (Y/N)
Plecostomus
Commodore
Not at this time... But thank you for the info... All this will be very helpful in my Star Trek larp that I am trying to do..... It is very difficult explaining what I know and yet not know....
Thanks much!!!
Any time.
I actually have a theory on what a dilithium crystal is.
Okay, we know that if antimatter touches any form of matter it instantly vaporizes the matter in an equal explosion.
However, dilithium seems to be the odd man out of that equation. I've pondered that for a while, and eventually stuck it in the back of my head as just a part of the show. Which it is, but I like to think so...
Well, I determined that the only way that crystal would be different if it was somehow ALTERED by being exposed to subspace, thus giving it the inherent property to phase into subspace when antimatter touched it, THUS phasing the actual plasma that is fed into the warp engines allowing it to be altered again into subspace fields using the properties of the warp coils. Perhaps asteroids that held dilithium flew through space, and occasionally these asteroids would enter a subspace pocket, to come out again with the altered dilithium. Then these asteroids would pelt a planet, littering it with dilithium. This would also explain why it was so hard to find dilithium in TOS years, because this phenomenon would be pretty rare over the eon's.
Of course we know now the Federation has obtained the ability to artificially create dilithium. But that is generally what I think the crystal is, and the reason it doesn't mutually annihilate when antimatter touches it.
Okay, we know that if antimatter touches any form of matter it instantly vaporizes the matter in an equal explosion.
However, dilithium seems to be the odd man out of that equation. I've pondered that for a while, and eventually stuck it in the back of my head as just a part of the show. Which it is, but I like to think so...
Well, I determined that the only way that crystal would be different if it was somehow ALTERED by being exposed to subspace, thus giving it the inherent property to phase into subspace when antimatter touched it, THUS phasing the actual plasma that is fed into the warp engines allowing it to be altered again into subspace fields using the properties of the warp coils. Perhaps asteroids that held dilithium flew through space, and occasionally these asteroids would enter a subspace pocket, to come out again with the altered dilithium. Then these asteroids would pelt a planet, littering it with dilithium. This would also explain why it was so hard to find dilithium in TOS years, because this phenomenon would be pretty rare over the eon's.
Of course we know now the Federation has obtained the ability to artificially create dilithium. But that is generally what I think the crystal is, and the reason it doesn't mutually annihilate when antimatter touches it.
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