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You should know this, Scotty. (media.piefed.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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[–] 67 points 10 months ago* (10 children)

nah, thats movement relative to space time, warp suggests bending said space time in order to, relative to your destination, move faster than light, while essentially staying motionless in spacetime.

In this paradigm inertia is very much not a thing

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    This, the power is needed to maintain the subspace bubble, being thrown from said bubble from losing power has been shown to be dangerous. Maybe you just drop out of warp, maybe you drop out too close to something and have no control.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Yeah, the moment they stop maintaining the warp they're no longer cheating physics to travel faster than light.

    I also gotta imagine it's a controlled process and just abruptly dropping is gonna be... harsh on the hull and crew.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (5 children)

    Then explain inertial dampeners buddy! (No seriously, someone please explain to me why they need inertial dampeners at warp. It's been bugging me for literally years.)

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    They also use "impulse", which seems to be a very high powered inertial type deal. That should follow the rules we're used to

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Oh yeah absolutely. But I'm almost certain I've heard them complain about the intertial dampeners being maxed out or something when they've been flung to crazy warp factors by one of the various near-omnipotent aliens they seem to encounter at least once a season lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    They're inside a bubble of newtonion rules while doing crazy things to the space around them. If something jostles them hard enough, the whole crew would stop being biology and become physics. Inertial dampers stop that.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'd love to start making up nerdy explanations, and I mean its plausible bending spacetime all willy nilly might have some local inertial side-effects, but the concept of inertial dampers is honestly quite out there. That and the artificial gravity.

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