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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: MajorAce
How much power would it take to pull all of space around and past a ship while it never moves.
Lots.
But with dilithium crystals and antimatter it can be done. It's not easy, but it can be done.
originally posted by: SolAquarius
The ships in star trek don't actually move they sit in a pocket of still space. A warp bubble is created around the ship that warps space around the ship.
This is how they can travel faster than the speed of light because they are not actually moving in a conventional sense of momentum.
The ships sit still and space is warped around them I would assume any debris is warped around the bubble surrounding the ship as well.
originally posted by: intrptr
Hyper drives displace time, suspending the time it takes to travel from point a to b by jumping there.
This would also account for abrupt angular changes of direction reported in some UFO cases.
Time is switched 'off' for the moment it takes to 'jump' to the new direction. Otherwise everything and the occupants would get squished.
originally posted by: Erno86
The magnetosphere...surrounding the starship, "interacts with high energy particles, creating an electric field that makes the incoming particles swerve around it --- similar to raindrops deflected off an umbrella."
www.bbc.com...
If one were to "switch off" time, how would one ever be able to "switch" it back "on" again?
If Past, Present, and Future (or, more precisely, Pasts, Presents, and Futures) are perceived as simultaneously co-existent in a sort of globular construct, then "where" and "when" become merely a matter of perception, really.
After getting home from hospital one day and I was bed bound, remote for TV fell off bed and the TV was stuck on the sci-fi channel..alas Star Trek).
originally posted by: bananashooter
Well technically, the ship is stationary and space time is moving. So that means that there is a field around the craft and matter simply moves around it. This is a fictional/theoretical of course. a reply to: network dude