Comment on Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home

Gregorech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What exactly is subspace anyways?

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a different part of the universe, separate from normal space where things like baryonic matter exists. In subspace certain of our universe’s fundamental rules as seen in normal space don’t apply or constants are different.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How much of this is based on reality and how much is based on Star Trek wanting a mechanism to be able to communicate between star fleet and the Enterprise?

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      • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think entirely Star Trek on this one. Although, if we ever want to move* faster than light, it’ll almost certainly require a science or an understanding of nature which we don’t even have theoretical concepts of in 2023.

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Subspace is what the warp bubble moves through

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok, then it’s fictional. The theoretical warp drive that is consistent with Einstein’s field equations moves through normal space but just warps it in a way that it effectively moves faster than light (while locally obeying the light speed limit).

      Though that still requires something with negative mass or gravity (I was very disappointed when they confirmed antimatter has normal gravity, I was hoping the theory was wrong on that).

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      • arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s still dark energy and dark matter that are kinda odd

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  • Gregorech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Space is like a rainbow, subspace is equal to ultraviolet and hyperspace is infrared. At least inmy head cannon.

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