Mod Idea: Simulating surfaces -> Borg Technology -> Twinkie Physics -> Worldviews

[Arkcon]

Sorry guys, but I had to do this.

web page link

If you would, please fill in the gaps.

[Suicide Junkie]

You shoulda spelled it "light speed" instead of "Light speed".

The Wiki is case sensitive, and the odd capital makes it hard to link to.

Other than that, the only problem is the galaxy squares are 10 not 1 LY across.

[ December 06, 2002, 20:28: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
You shoulda spelled it "light speed" instead of "Light speed".

The Wiki is case sensitive, and the odd capital makes it hard to link to.

Other than that, the only problem is the galaxy squares are 10 not 1 LY across.

Thanks for fixing that SJ. It had been like that for sooooooo long. How is it done? That's not easy to find in the Wiki help files.

When I wrote light speed, I did it buy clicking on a ?Light speed. I was new at Wiki then.

Can you fix Maintenance? That one just everywhere. I'm willing to search and fix the links to it -- it's a good way to browse Wiki.

If I had a girlfriend, she'd probably stab me in the back of the head right now.

It was just Last night I re-read the printed manual and found out about the 10 light year. I left it because I thought it could have been a typo. I don't open many warp points.

*[EDIT]*

Ohhh. Please fix [systemvsector bonus] as well. I didn't even know that entry was there, I was going to write one.

[ December 06, 2002, 21:45: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[President_Elect_Shang]

You know I may sound like a hostess pie here but I need to point this out. Are we ASSUMING that we can get said twinkie to near light speed or beyond without the acceleration making the twinkie into a fruit pie on the ships bulkhead? If you are speaking about a gradual acceleration to light speed (or some point there of) than we need to consider what is happening to the twinkie and the outside world during this acceleration period. Then we can consider what happens when reaching the optimal cruising speed.

Yes they [Princeton and a school in Italy] have managed to accelerat “energy packets” to what is effectively beyond light speed. Follow the link, you will need to search around some but only because there is so much info. You still can't move something solid that fast.

http://pupgg.princeton.edu/www/jh/re...e_theory.htmlx

[dogscoff]

As a side note I recently heard that there is strong evidence to support the fact that C is not as constant as we once thought. Apparently the speed of light has been slowing down slightly over the Last several billion years.

Where did you read this? I only ask because a "C slowing down" theory has been put forward as an argument for creationism. I don't know if that was something made up for that purpose or something they had borrowed from real science. I don't suppose I'd ever find the webpage again, but I read a really funny argument about this theory between a creationist and someone who actually understood science.

[capnq]

As a side note I recently heard that there is strong evidence to support the fact that C is not as constant as we once thought. Apparently the speed of light has been slowing down slightly over the Last several billion years.

Where did you read this?

This may not be what he's thinking of, but it was the most likely candidate Google pulled up: Speed of Light, Other Constants May Change {link}

This also reminded me of another theory, that the gravitational constant G may also decrease over time. Here's a link which mentions that: Interview with Paul Dirac {link}

[Suicide Junkie]

With those FTL energy packets thing;
Imagine a giant ringworld, with a circumference of one light second. So a little smaller than the orbit of the moon.
Put one of those spinning emergency lights in the middle.
Set the light to spin ten times per second.
The spot of light hitting the ringworld will also go around ten times per second.

Now, that ringworld was one light second in circumference, so that spot of light was moving 10 light seconds each second, or 10 times the speed!

No laws of physics broken, no info of physical object moves faster than light.

With the energy pulses thing, you use a bunch of lasers to interfere with each other, and the pattern shifts faster than light.
Its like you had a big crowd of people on the ringworld, and had them stand up to do "the wave" like it was a giant sports arena as the light goes by. Then tell 'em to keep it up and turn off the light. Then unroll the ringworld into a beam.
"The wave" is still moving 10x the speed of light, but really, the movement is an illusion.

[ December 07, 2002, 19:29: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]