Is it something to do with Tyrion Lannister?

Hey I read about the null hypothesis on wikipedia and now I'm confused.

Are we saying that FTL communication is only significant if it happens more often than randomly? Because as far as I can tell if it ever happens - at all - that's a real breakthrough.

ScholasticSpastic wrote:...

Warp factors are arbitrary units of speed which are inconsistently applied to conceal the plot devices necessary to move a story forward.

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How very dare you. We among the FTL community--Ftlyers-- find this kind of outmoded and, frankly, patriarchal attitude deeply offensive.

I will be writing PERSONALLY to our chairman, a Mr McC, this very evening.

Speed of plot. Seems Star Trek is pretty unashamedly guilty:

Happens constantly in all versions, driving hard-core fans nuts because the mechanical capabilities of the warp drive, impulse drive, and the shuttles vary violently from episode to episode. When the first Star Trek role-playing game came out, this characteristic was written into the rules. Unlike most science fiction RPGs, no maps with star systems, distances, and travel times was provided. The instructions specified that all this information should be made up according to the requirements of whatever adventure was being run.

THWOTH wrote:
I will be writing PERSONALLY to our chairman, a Mr McC, this very evening.

I don't care. I prefer the hard science fiction to this flaccid stuff anyway.

Mr McC won't kick me out of the FTLer conspiracy club because then he'd have to address the points I make.

Which book, Formless Ends? [that's a bit of a tangle]

crank wrote:Which book, Formless Ends? [that's a bit of a tangle]

The Big Picture

Why exactly it is the speed of light, I don't know.

However, imagine a clear transparent 3D box or 3D environment, and imagine that it has plenty of objects within it, and that they are all constantly moving at the speed of light, "c". With this being the case, the only option left for these objects, is a change in any of their directions of travel within the 3D environment.

Now lets change the 3D environment into becoming a 4D environment. The new dimension that is added, is the dimension of time. Once again, the objects can change their direction of constant travel, but now do so in a 4D environment.

Thus an object may be at rest in space, and thus in turn, its constant motion is entirely across the dimension of time only. Or, if it were possible, an object may be at rest in time, and thus in turn, its constant motion would be entirely across a dimension of space only, and it would do so, at the speed of light.

As a bird changes its spatial direction of travel, it rotates during that change. If any object in the 4D environment changes its direction, it too rotates during that change, but in this case it is a 4D rotation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKAwpEe ... Bh-Mq7HdoQ

Would we be able to detect anything that might move faster directly ? Light after all is the means by which we detect most things. So maybe light is just the fastest thing we can detect.

Remember the, alleged, faster than light neutrinos?

CarlPierce wrote:Would we be able to detect anything that might move faster directly ? Light after all is the means by which we detect most things. So maybe light is just the fastest thing we can detect.

The tachyonic antitelephone explains theoretically how:

ABSTRACT

The problem of detecting faster-than-light particles is reconsidered in relation to Tolman's paradox. It is shown that some of the experiments already under way or contemplated must either yield negative results or give rise to causal contradictions.

Received 23 June 1969

Obviously, there’s more on the idea at wikipedia

See also http://hendrix2.uoregon.edu/~imamura/FP ... eek-4.html for some nice pictures.

Simply put, from a link in another thread:

Thus, for our purposes, we can use the following to describe FTL travel. Consider some observer traveling from point A to point B. At the same time this observer leaves A, a light beam is sent out towards the destination, B. This light travels in the area of fairly flat space-time outside of any effects that might be caused by the method our observer uses to travel from A to B. If the observer ends up at B in time to see the light beam arrive, then the observer is said to have traveled "faster than light".

http://www.physicsguy.com/ftl/html/FTL_part4.html

To design such experiment is, in principle, trivial and at heart of the neutrino experiment. They, allegedly, just arrived sooner than light.

VazScep wrote:Speed of plot. Seems Star Trek is pretty unashamedly guilty:

Happens constantly in all versions, driving hard-core fans nuts because the mechanical capabilities of the warp drive, impulse drive, and the shuttles vary violently from episode to episode. When the first Star Trek role-playing game came out, this characteristic was written into the rules. Unlike most science fiction RPGs, no maps with star systems, distances, and travel times was provided. The instructions specified that all this information should be made up according to the requirements of whatever adventure was being run.

Yes, impulse power is pretty fast, somewhere approaching the speed of light.

One quarter impulse power is like first gear, used for getting out of space dock.

My Ford on a motorway can do one quarter impulse power.

i always read somewhere that density becomes infinite which i dont get what the heck it means,but does that mean volume is zero?
D=M/V so if as Volume approaches 0 Then density approaches infinity what is happening to the mass?

please explain ,as i have encountered this line of reading many times.

Singularity
http://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/top ... ities.html