Subspace

Captain Digness · Commander Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 418

Hey I am doing a science fair report on warp drive and subspace, and I need some help.

Sonic74205 · **Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:05 pm**

Okay, go ahead with your questions

Jadzia Lenara Dax · **Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:41 pm**

[moved to star trek tech from gen. trek. jad]

Captain Digness · Commander Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 418

just subspace in general, ow it makes a ship go to ftl speeds.

Hitchhiker · **Wed Feb 16, 2005 6:49 pm**

I think the idea is that the speed of light in subspace is not the same as it is in normal space. It would probably be faster, therefore allowing signals that are light-speed (hence 'subspace radio') and objects that are travelling slower than light to travel at greater speeds.

So when a starship uses its warp drive, it is warping space (and subspace) around the ship, the ship itself does not move through a conventional manner of propulsion (eg; there is no thrust exerted).

Captain Digness · Commander Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 418

thak you, but does anyone have anything more technical or greater indepth, because I must do a report on the subject for school. Thanks

Hitchhiker · **Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:17 pm**

Unfortunately, most of the Trek tech is theoretical in the sense that scientists right now are still debating the most efficient way of cheating Einstein.

The second problem is that with Trek, the writers could essentially introduce a new rule whenever they wanted to make the show cooler.

Try: http://ditl.org/

Click on "Sci-Fi Tech" on the top menu, then scroll down to "Warp Drive" on the side menu.

PrankishSmart · **Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:03 pm**

Some of the basic stuff on trek like warp drive and antimatter is theoretical, but I wouldn't get too caught up trying to figure out what they mean when they say something like 'the phase emitters have lost power from the couplings we have to go down and replace the transiever assembly... well you get the idea.

webtaz99 · **Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:45 pm**

Subspace is where black holes lead to.

The term "subspace" is basically another word for "ether". Most scientists around the turn of the century believed that electromagnetic radiation (including light, radio waves and x-rays) propogated through a medium (like sound waves in air). This view was abandoned (or nearly so) when mankind began exploring "real" space and proved that EM radiation does not require a medium (that we can detect).

Kylon · **Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:42 pm**

Look up "zero point energy"

lionhead · **Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:46 am Re: Subspace**