Timeline for Why don't Star Trek vessels experience time dilation while travelling at impulse speeds
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| May 14, 2020 at 22:31 | answer | added | LazyReader | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 4:47 | answer | added | M.A. Golding | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 15:04 | vote | accept | Matt | ||
| Aug 16, 2016 at 4:06 | answer | added | Ram | timeline score: 20 | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 1:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/765363510113083392 | ||
| Aug 16, 2016 at 1:23 | comment | added | Remy Lebeau | @KaiQing there are episodes that explain why many species are similar to humans. They are all descended from a single ancient species, humans included. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 23:55 | comment | added | Kai Qing | You ever notice how the Star Trek universe conveniently uses the word "somehow" when they need to step over a subject that clearly demands explanation? Maybe the answer here is that somehow relativity doesn't apply to their vessels the same way that somehow the universal translator magically knows languages it has never dealt with, that most alien races seem to be bipedal sharing largely the same anatomical structure as humans, and that time travel exists at all, never mind going back to an era you lived in causes no instant change to yourself. Science fiction | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 23:24 | comment | added | ApproachingDarknessFish | @Matt I never said the field was necessary to travel at impulse, just that it was usually turned on. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 23:22 | comment | added | John Sensebe | You're talking Relativity and a show that has artificial gravity produced by plates in the floor on a per-deck basis.... | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 23:22 | history | edited | ApproachingDarknessFish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 15, 2016 at 23:22 | comment | added | Matt | That doesn't make sense, whenever they eject the core they can still travel at impulse. A warp field is impossible without a core | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 23:21 | comment | added | Adamant | Well, this question seems to suggest that impulse drives go somewhere in the 0.25 c to 0.75 c range. At the upper end of that range, the time dilation factor is 0.66. Even for 0.92 c, it is only 0.39. So...even if the crew, for some bizarre reason, decided to travel at impulse for a week, their families would only be a week or so older. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 23:20 | comment | added | ApproachingDarknessFish | Fairly certain the ship's warp field is turned on even when the ship isn't travelling at warp speed. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 23:07 | history | asked | Matt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |