Re: Re: Well...

>  -=> Quoting Darren Leary #127 @160401 to B. Steven Young #111 @160 <=-
>  DL#@> You think so?  What about the old one.  I don't exactley call that
>  DL#@> good tv either.  Hey, but can you explain warp?
> Easily. The mater-antimatter reactor produces energy, and the dilithium
> crystals do something weird, so that that energy is doubled. Now, part of it
> goes back into creating matter/antimatter, and part of it is available for
> use. Since this way we have infinite energy, we can do whatever we want, even
> bend space around us.
>     I wish I could see the guy who invented this, and tell him: "If you can't
> explain something you dreamed up, DON'T."

It's a lot more sophisticated than that, and the fundamental basis of their
ideas is actually somewhat sound.  The theory goes that dilithium crystals
look like ordinary quartz at a first analysis, but they extend their
crystalline structure into the fourth dimension (time).  These crystals
radiate electromagnetic energy back when excited by what the writers call
sub-space, and conversly radiate sub-space energy back when excited by EM
radiation.  They channel this FTL, time altering energy and the ship gets
surrounded by a field of time-altering energy, essentially allowing the ship
to circumvent normal relativistic effects.

     See it's all very simple.  ;^)

     Have I been reading too much of this stuff lately or what!

          Emory R. Stagmer (aka VAX Headroom) sysop Electronic Warfare BBS

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