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Actually Timothy what you are referring to is more an explanation of
theoretical "hyperspace" than it is "warp theory" from Star Trek.  Warp
theory is in fact about actually ftl travel.  The hypothetical warp field
gives the appearance of lowered mass within a warp field.  By staying
within the field of "real" time by using the warp drive travelers in the
Star Trek universe avoid troublesome relativistic complications of time
dilation.  The use of impulse drive at high output, however, exposes them
to these dilation effects because it is a relatively simple reaction drive
driven by fusion reactors that do not isolate the vessel in the often
mentioned "warp bubble" (in the case of large Federation starships at any
rate).

The "twisted geometry" you are referring to, I think has more to do with
the space-time curvature part of the General Relativity Theory (which was
demonstrated early in this century) than it does the "space warps" you
refer to at the end of your commentary.

Wade Padgett
wpad...@server.mtsi.com
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> 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.
limit at all times.  
> 
> These space warps are such short cuts in curved space-time in the
> twisted geometry of general relativity.   
> 
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