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Posted Wed 21 Jun, 2017 12:31 AM
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Last edited by Allan Hood; Thu 22 Jun, 2017 9:56 PM.
I know this is suppose to be off topic from Star Trek, but I figured more people may be interested in this topic as a debate maybe? Not many people seem interested in this under the normal Discussions tab.
In the TNG episode, Force of Nature, Data talks Picard and Riker into using a warp pulse so they coast without using their warp engines for two minutes, eight seconds.
If the ship is moving through space, instead of space moving around them with a warp field, wouldn't the ship be affected by time dilation under Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity?
I'm a student of time dilation and I'm just trying to square it with having the lack of a warp field. I realize the writers don't care haha but I want to see if there is a scientific explanation for the possibility.
According to my own calculations, I think the Enterprise should have been thrown back in time 200 years haha according to Special Relativity.
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Posted Sat 24 Jun, 2017 1:40 AM
Anyone help me with double-checking my calculations?
Just so we can get a baseline on our variables, let's start with v<c...
Normal time (t) in days:
t=((587862537318.295/((v/c)*186282.3970512))/60/60/23.93446389)
Starship Dilation in days:
=(t)*(((1-(((v/c)^2)/(1^2)))^0.5))*365.25
Time Dilation in days:
=(t)/(((1-(((v/c)^2)/(1^2)))^0.5))*365.25
.1ly = 587,862,537,318.295 miles
c = 186,282.3970512 mi/sec
v = .9c = 167,654.157346 mi/sec
1 day = 23.93446389 hours
1 yr = 365.25
Normal time = 40.6944565 days
Starship time = 17.7383024 days
Time Dilation = 93.3594861 days
I even have length contraction, mass effect and relativistic energy-momentum haha which is easy after getting time dilation down pat.