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Timothy J. Boyd  <bo...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
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> In <5ddbj6$k7g$2...@zinger.callamer.com> mkel...@hertz.elee.calpoly.edu
> (Matt Kellner) writes: 
> (snip)
> >
> >According to the Relativity theory, if an object's speed exceeds that
> >of light, Time becomes a complex number.  I believe one of the key
> >points in Warp Theory (Star Trek stuff) is finding a way to deal with
> >time as a complex number.
> 
> Actually, the warp theory Star Trek uses has nothing to due with
> traveling faster than light (directly).  They are warping the spatial
> dimensions to utilise "short cuts" that give the appearance of
> superluminal travel.  Let me try to illustrate this with an example.
> 
> Say you wanted to travel from New York to California, and you were
> permitted to travel at no greater than 55 mph (analagous to the
> Einstein limit, i.e. the speed of light).  If there were a road that
> ran directly between the two points traveled, driving at 55 mph the
> entire journey would get you to your destination in the shortest time.
> 
> However, the earth is curved, and the shortest path between the two
> points would actually be a tunnel through the earth.  If you were to
> travel at exactly 55 mph through this hypothetical tunnel, you would
> arrive at the destination in a shorter time.  To a viewer on the
> earth's surface, you appeared to travel faster than 55 mph (analagous
> to going faster than the speed of light), even though you obeyed that
> limit at all times.  
> 
> These space warps are such short cuts in curved space-time in the
> twisted geometry of general relativity.   
> 
> 
> 

Nope, this is close to an argument we had in comp.lang.basic a little bit
ago. Someone brought in the Star Trek technical manual thingy, and
explained it to us a little. Go there, it shouldn't be back more than
50-100 posts.


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