I'll assume that jump drives do not allow this. Fixed stargates have quite different implications, because then the FTL system isn't part of the ship, and can be militarily threatened independently of any ship.īy your reference to Star Trek, I'll assume that combat is possible at warp speeds. When you say "jump drives/wormholes", I'll assume you mean "can jump from any point". We still have ships here on Earth, despite aircraft. Note: depending on how you set these parameters, it's quite possible to have a universe where jump and superluminal drives co-exist. Do starships betray their transit by creating detectable "wakes"? If so can anything intercept them in transit, or immediately on emergence from transit? Is interstellar travel as safe as today's air travel? Or as dangerous as that of an early settler to the colonies that became the USA? If significantly dangerous, does that depend on a human crew's skill? Or is it a matter of pure, ramdom luck?ĭetectability. A sailship's journey time is not nearly so predictable. A steamship's journey time is fairly predictable, only the very worst weather will slow it down. Is there a means of superluminal communication other than sending packets on a starship? If there is, what does it cost per bit transmitted? (Smallest is inches, or millimeters using related technologies).Ĭommunications. How small is the smallest possible starship? How large is the largest? Here on earth, there is a maximum size for an aircraft set by the materials-science impossibility of making a rigid wing much wider than that on an Airbus 380 or large military transport. What is the range limit, before a starship has to stop to be refuelled or overhauled? (Also, is "Earth" the only place such an overhaul is possible, either because of its complexity or for political reasons? ) What does it cost per kilogramme of freight? And is distance, within range limit, a significant price factor or not? ("Teleportation" with effective zero set-up time would be a military nightmare and probably leads to first-strike armageddon).ĭifferent speeds? Can a starship make a quicker journey at added cost? Or is there effectively one and only one speed? Boats have a very limited ability to go faster.Ĭost. Sensible times could range from hours to years per journey. So time per journey is constant, up to the maximum range. It also seems reasonable that with a jump drive, it takes a constant set-up time to get to and from spaceports to jump-points, and the jump is instantaneous. It seems reasonable that, in the same starship, it takes twice as long to go 200 light-years superluminally as it does 100. However, I think that the laws of economics, as applied to moving around on Earth, will generalize. (1998) “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group.Since these technologies are both fictional, you can make up any rules you want. (1973) “Concepts of Modern Physics”, McGraw Hill Kogakusha Ltd. (2005) “Breaking the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First Time Machine”, Adult Publishing Group.īeiser A. (1905) “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper”, Annalen der Physik 17: 891. To view a copy of this license, visitĮinstein A. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Invisible Spacetime Theory Faster Than Light (FTL) time travel fifth dimension To do so, three assumptions are suggested such that they support Relativity at subluminal speeds and encourage 'Fifth dimension' concept at superluminal speeds. In this paper a theoretical attempt is made to provide a general description for moving objects and time flow in moving objects, irrespective of their speed domain, is related with stationary objects. doi: 10.12691/ijp-3-3-1Ībstract Theory of Relativity and theories for superluminal speed cannot be given in same way even though both of them are created to explain the moving objects. Invisible Spacetime Theory - An Approach to Generalize Subluminal and Superluminal Speeds.
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