EVE General Discussion

Your experience of the game would be greatly improved


If you didnt watch terrible movies


While you played


Seriously


Watch better Brooks movies


They are Legion for They are Many

Any meaning here is lost utterly on us Americans.

When we think of Brooks Films, we think of "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles".

I want to be the guy who nitpicks and tells you that ships that warp aren't actually faster than light,
because there is nothing faster than light.

Electromagnetic waves inside the warp bubble have the same speed
as electromagnetic waves outside the warp bubble.

To be precise: The ship inside the warp bubble doesn't move at all.
Actually, nothing inside the warp bubble moves during warp travel.

Edit:
And to be even more precise: One could say that not even the warp bubble moves.
It changes it's relative position, yes, but not because it moves,
but because it changes space surrounding it.

To compare:
A common misunderstanding is that people say that galaxies within our real universe drift apart,
which isn't the case. It's just that the distances between galaxies increase,
because the size of the universe increases.

Mind. Blown.


End of nitpicking.

or The History of The World

Clm the freak down. Jesus.

I'm wondering who the heck this other Brooks is, that's all. And I clarified who the other one was with just titles, and no opinion about at all.


Either learn to read correctly or stop being so delusional and paranoid.

A Parsec is a UNIT OF DISTANCE, NOT SPEED or TIME.

I thought this got famously cleared up in 1977. I guess not.

So wait, are you claiming American's somehow have superior cinematic taste based on your own view of reality? Because I have a one word answer to that: Kardashians.

Look, just because you feel you have a superior take on Brooks films, doesn't mean that every other bugger has to avoid finding something to love about a bad Brooks film. Why do I say this? Because it's the only principal that explains Adam Sandler's film career in my opinion.

Your experience of the game would be greatly improved


If you didnt watch terrible movies


While you played


Seriously


Watch better Brooks movies


They are Legion for They are Many

Even gravity cannot influence things faster than the speed of light. It is a hard limit. You can't work your way around it by doing something like building a super long pole and pushing it so the other end moves at the same time - the compression wave will travel through it at the speed of sound int its material.

In short, you can't cheat by saying "its just the warp bubble lol" - because even it, and alterations in the physical structure of the universe (say, bending it in such a way you can hop, A Wrinkle In Time style) are only going to propagate at the speed of light at best.

"the ship inside the warp bubble doesn't move at all!" actually, yes it does, objectively. From any frame of reference outside it, it moves. It will still be bound by the speed of light. Heck, if it was in a bubble moving at the speed of light and it had headlights, the light from those headlights would appear to stand still from outside the ship - because even though inside the bubble it is travelling at the speed of light, outside, it would be limited by the speed of all massless particles and travel at c.

The universe does weird **** when you approach that constant.

Alcubierre’s "Warp Drive"

Here’s the premise behind the Alcubierre "warp drive": Although Special Relativity forbids objects to move faster than light within spacetime, it is unknown how fast spacetime itself can move. To use an analogy, imagine you are on one of those moving sidewalks that can be found in some airports. The Alcubierre warp drive is like one of those moving sidewalks. Although there may be a limit to how fast one can walk across the floor (analogous to the light speed limit), what about if you are on a moving section of floor that moves faster than you can walk (analogous to a moving section of spacetime)? In the case of the Alcubierre warp drive, this moving section of spacetime is created by expanding spacetime behind the ship (analogous to where the sidewalk emerges from underneath the floor), and by contracting spacetime in front of the ship (analogous to where the sidewalk goes back into the floor). The idea of expanding spacetime is not new. Using the "Inflationary Universe" perspective, for example, it is thought that spacetime expanded faster than the speed of light during the early moments of the Big Bang. So if spacetime can expand faster than the speed of light during the Big Bang, why not for our warp drive? These theories are too new to have either been discounted or proven viable.

Any other sticky issues?

Yes... First, to create this effect, you’ll need a ring of negative energy wrapped around the ship, and lots of it too. It is still debated in physics whether negative energy can exist. Classical physics tends toward a "no," while quantum physics leans to a "maybe, yes." Second, you’ll need a way to control this effect to turn it on and off at will. This will be especially tricky since this warp effect is a separate effect from the ship. Third, all this assumes that this whole "warp" would indeed move faster than the speed of light. This is a big unknown. And fourth, if all the previous issues weren’t tough enough, these concepts evoke the same time-travel paradoxes as the wormhole concepts.