they appeared to be traveling faster than the Speed of Light, hopping around, what do the Warp Factor numbers mean, are they equivalent to something like the MACH numbers and the Speed of Sound, but referring to the Speed of Light?
2007-01-24 15:14:29 · 8 answers · asked by Courageous Capt. Cat 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
for any like Lord Z, in reference to what and the speed of light (like 2x or 3x the speed of light)? in one episode where they appeared to be going back in time once approached a sun, and slingshot effect, Mr. Spock said, "...we appear to be going faster than the speed of light..." when there time chronometer was reversing
2007-01-24 15:24:57 · update #1
their time chronometer
2007-01-24 15:27:01 · update #2
Speed of sound. It warps the sound waves. Same as Mach numbers.
2007-01-24 15:22:21 · answer #1 · answered by da_hammerhead 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Mateo nailed it. In the Original Series, to find how fast the ship was travelling in terms of c (the speed of light), take the cube of the warp factor. So ...
Warp 1 = 1^3 = 1c (speed of light, 1 raised to any power is 1)
Warp 2 = 2^3 = 8c
Warp 3 = 3^3 = 27c
Warp 4 = 4^3 = 64c
And so on.
2007-01-24 15:52:39 · answer #2 · answered by Navigator 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to Michael Okuda, a person who worked on Star Trek, there's a mathematical function for warp speed in the TNG era.
It's s(w)=w^(10/3) *c where c is the speed of light, w is warp factor, ans s is the speed in km/sec
For the Original Series, the function was s(w)=w^3 *c
For this one, there is no warp limit like Warp 10 for the TNG scale
2007-01-24 15:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by MateoFalcone 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Does this link answer your question?
(You will have to scroll down a bit.)
http://www.star-fleet.com/ed/warp-chart.html
The top of the screen says
"Engineering Department. Warp Speed Defined"
And there is the symbol for the United Federation of Planets in the upper left corner.
2007-01-29 11:55:37 · answer #4 · answered by V. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Warp 1 was one tenth the speed of light. If you noticed, They never went higher then warp 9 point 5. Thats because they could not go the speed of light without destroying the ship.
2007-01-24 15:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by au197_0 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Warp usually refers to the speed the Enterprise is travelling. For instance if they said Warp 2. Thats's 2x the speed of sound.
2007-01-24 15:22:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Speed of light
2007-01-24 15:17:38 · answer #7 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a factor of the speed of Light.
I am cracking up at these answers that say the speed of Sound.
2007-01-24 15:47:49 · answer #8 · answered by thearthound 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋