To understand this, we must understand the difference:
One difference between warp drive and hyperspace is that unlike hyperspace, the ship does not enter a different universe or a different dimension, it merely creates a small "bubble" of normal space time. Ships in warp can interact with objects in normal space.
After further investigation I found out this fact:
In hyperspace, there is no limit to how fast a star-ship can travel, and thus interstellar distances can be traversed in mere minutes.
Warp Drive does have some limits as it goes through real space and time and must interact. Hyper-drive can avoid this and go great distances faster than warp drive.
Therefore, I must say that Hyper-drive is faster than warp drive. However, warp drive can be more convent in the long run but that was not the question at hand so there it is.
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2007-03-19 06:05:05
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answered by Randy P 3
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The hyperdrive is faster, but slower in a way, I'll tell ya what I mean.
Hyperspace exists beneath normal space so it is the same thing as subspace. It is another dimension that is naturally bent or folded relative to normal space.
Some hyperdrives allow ships to jump from one point right to another. Others like the Borg transwarp drive, belong to a propulsion system better than the warp drive. You must still plot a course and wait minutes or hours before you arrive at your destination. Oh, with a subspace engine your ship is merely sent into subspace, it does not move faster than light. The same thing applies to the quantum slipstream drive and maybe to the Xindi subspace vortex generator.
The warp drive on Star Trek works diffirently from "real" warp drives which we are told may actually work. The spaceship dosen't collapse the space in front of it and expand the space behind it. In the show, a warp field changes and amplifies energy like radio, heat, x-ray, and kinetic, incrementally until it is pushed into subspace by the final layer of the field. A warp driven starship actually does travel faster than light through space without entering hyperspace.
Warp 9 is the highest warp factor a ship can safely reach which is 1000 times the speed of light. 70,000 light-years can be traveled in 70 years. My math may be wrong, but I once calculated if the U.S.S Voyager had been able to achieve warp 9.9 and remain at that velocity, she could've made it back to Earth in a little more than 35 days.
2007-03-21 15:43:28
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answered by space dreamer 3
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Hyperdrive lets you cross countless light years in hours. Warp drive has an actual correlation and calculatable speed.
Therefore, Hyperdrive is faster.
2007-03-19 05:49:43
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answered by Chali 6
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Assuming you mean Star Wars hyperdrive, then it's much faster than Star Trek warp drive.
The Empire covers most of the galaxy, and they seem to be able to get from one part to another relatively quickly. The Federation is only in a small part of the Alpha Quadrant, and it takes years, even decades, to get to the other quadrants.
2007-03-19 08:17:52
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answered by Flyboy 6
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Dude, warp speed is, like, the bending of the time space continuem. What could be faster than that
2007-03-19 05:49:11
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answered by TheMadLith 2
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Duh....I see my fellow nerds are out in force actually ANSWERING this question......
Shatner: "GET A LIFE YOU PEOPLE...IT'S ONLY A TV SHOW" You, you there, with the ears......have you ever been on a date? Get out of your mom's basement.
Oh yeah and the answer's Hyperdrive.
2007-03-19 05:52:12
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answered by Skeezix 5
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it rather is a possibility with the help of in elementary terms mild and small debris. If a particle is shifting at a course at very severe speed, no resistance and if it gets a sturdy tension with the help of in the back of, then in keeping with risk its a possibility yet particle must be like photon or something and tension additionally must be around the fee of sunshine. I study it someplace. I dont undergo in strategies it yet i'm additionally no longer confidant if its ture or no longer.
2016-10-19 02:08:13
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answered by balikos 4
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warp drive
2007-03-19 05:52:16
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answered by I aM CrAzY 2
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warp drive
2007-03-19 05:48:22
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answered by helloguy 2
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hyperdrive or warp drive....seems stupidity drive is pretty quick too ........
2007-03-19 05:55:19
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answered by smudge2_k4 2
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