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To: fishtank

Warp is a logarithm of the speed of light; 10/warp=log speed/e?, so warp 10= 10/10 =log e/speed = 1; warp 1 = 10=log e/speed; speed=.0000000001*e

e is the speed of light,
speed is the speed of the subject, expressed as a fraction of the speed of light.

The only thing I'm not sure of is whether this is base 10, but I presume it is, since they select warp 10 to be e.


76 posted on 03/22/2006 7:24:10 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus; fishtank

I thought the cube of the warp number was the light-speed-multiple - Warp 2 is eight times the speed of light, Warp 3 is 27 times, etc.


117 posted on 03/23/2006 5:21:58 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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