EVE General Discussion

Not really. The Nyx ram was successfully only because the station's shield in that section was sabotaged. Otherwise the Nyx would have bounced off.

Since ships bounce off of each other and off of objects in EVE, it implies that EVE ships are effectively immune to traditional kinetic kill weapons.

As for EVE kinetic damage ammo/weapons, given that we can fire through solid objects, the very limited weapons ranges, and the apparently instantaneous travel speed of hybrids and projectiles, then we can infer that EVE "kinetic" weapons aren't the solid-object-moving-very-very-fast that we think of in the real world. Maybe, instead, EVE weapons use mini-warp tunnels to travel to their target and do damage in some fashion other than via physical impacts and normal space explosions.


Magic.

When it comes to the science of EVE, EVE puts the fiction in "science fiction" while managing to lose most of the science.

Quite simple really your the pilot of your ship in a pod who will cheat their way out of death via clone. But your co-pilot and ships crew are not so lucky and don't feel suicidal. So they refuse any and all orders concerning warping into objects to make them go boom.

Warp drive is reactionless (possibly)

Maybe, but yes things can travel faster than light.

I agree with you fixing this...

Neutrinos travel at precicely the speed of light. So for all we know there's some particle out there that may travel faster.

To outright state that nothing travels faster than light without proof to your cause is silly. The special theory of relativity states theory in it's title for a reason.

You missunderstood my point
I did not discount the theory of relativity, it has paved the way for modern scientific advancement and the majority of physics theories as of late. What I was stating is that for all we know some particle that we cannot observe at our current time may be able to surpass lightspeed.

For example, the special theory of relativity states that a particle, one which has rest mass, with subluminal velocity needs an infinate amount of energy to accelerate to, and surpass the speed of light. However the theory does not forbid the existence of particles that travel faster than light at all times such as tachyonic particle, which, while purely a hypothetical particle, always moves faster than light.

No experiments have confirmed this particle as of yet. One of the reasons is due to the particle always travelling at post lightspeed, therefore we would not see it coming. However experiments have been done and are ongoing, that search for the illusive particle, which shows that not all physicist agree with Einsteins theory.

Another theory that dissagrees with the theory is M Theory (a theory that elaborates on string theory). But thats complete codswallop. (If there is any M Theorists reading this, I'm only kidding, as an Astrophysicist myself I tent to dissagree with the theory, but thats another story).

But anyway, back to my original point, one cannot just assume that nothing travels faster than light. Theory dictates that most physics follows a certain set of rules that dissallows it. However, other theories do allow for it.

EDIT: Apologies, my spelling was terrible.
EDIT 2: Apoligies again, spelling was still terrible.
EDIT 3: Yeah it's 0233hours, I'm going to go to bed now. My spelling is just...

We know Einstein's relativity isn't the entire picture, and the problem of black hole physics is one reason why. However, SR and GR have stood up to intense experimental scrutiny. The odds of new data completely overthrowing his ideas at this point are very slim, but as with any scientific theory, it can never be absolutely proven. Ideas held as scientific fact have been tossed out before, of course, but as our understanding grows, the probability that we are totally wrong about the universe lessens. Isaac Asimov actually wrote a good piece on this, The Relativity of Wrong.

Anyway, the idea in SR isn't that "nothing can travel faster than light." Rather, particles with non-zero rest masses can never be accelerated to the speed of light, as the energy required for further acceleration increases without bound as a particle's velocity approaches c (due to that pesky Lorentz factor, 1/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2), which approaches infinity as v goes to c). A good overview of all this (which requires very little formal scientific or mathematical training) is Wikipedia's Introduction to Special Relativity. There's also an Introduction to General Relativity, which really isn't much more advanced, for any interested readers.

There are hypothetical particles called tachyons which *always* travel faster than c and would require "infinite energy" to decelerate to c. However, there is no real evidence tachyons exist, and efforts to describe their properties have led to various problems.

In addition, certain effects have been determined to propagate faster than c (as an example, quantum tunneling), but as far as I know, as far as we know, there's no way to use these phenomena to transmit information, which protects causality (not that it's necessarily impossible to violate causality--we simply take it as given that causality is a property of the universe, the absence of which leads to nonsense).

To respond to the OP, although there's a noticeable acceleration and deceleration during warp travel, based on how it apparently works, I'd expect a ship abruptly thrown out of warp to have zero velocity or, at most, the ship's top subluminal velocity. While a ship in warp does travel between points in space faster than a beam of light would, locally the ship is not (or doesn't seem to be) traveling at FTL speeds. How does this relate to micro warp drives? I don't know, especially since the velocities attained using MWD's are laughably small, so I'm not sure why warp is required at all.

In general, though, the mechanics of EVE's universe bear very little resemblance to the mechanics of our real one, so any particular strange phenomenon should just be chalked up to something technobabbly.

Edit: Apologies for duplicating some of the points made in Hessian Arcturus' post. I somehow didn't see it until after posting myself.

Lore says that ships in EVE aren't actually travelling faster than light, they are just going thru space-time fabric "outside" of it, in a perfect-vacuum bubble.

get a bed sheet, strech it. that's the space-time fabric where "you" are, as in, in the fabric itself.
get a sphere, and roll it through the bed sheet.
that's EVE's warp mechanic.

The Raven Guard, as usual at the service of the Ordo Haereticus...
We'll accept no surrender terms and take no prisoners.

Now, where is this warp bomber and the infernal baseball you were talking about?

the Alcubierre warp drive can in theory ... Eve warp bubbles seem to use this concept loosely. Nasa has actually begun investigating this concept... something about a field of massless particles that isnt subject to the mass / energy restrictions that party pooper Einstein came up with.