Talk:Speed of light

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Although generally accepted, the source for the claim of warp 1 equalling the speed of light needs to be cited as to both TOS and TNG era shows (which have different warp scales.) And where was "FTL" used as a term in Trek? Aholland 04:49, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I found citations and inserted them. But I also removed extraneous information to the article; corrected the physics summary; and removed "photon" as - strictly speaking - photons travel at the speed of light rather than determine the speed of light. Aholland 04:45, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warp and Time Travel

Does anyone know how it was rationalized that faster-than-light travel can occur without time travel also occurring? For Warp to be possible, it seems that the theory of relativity would have to be thoroughly and completely refuted, and current experiments would have to be shown to be really badly flawed-- It's not just the impossibility of lightspeed travel, but also the weirder aspects of the theory, such as the fact that two events that appear to be "simultaneous" from one place may appear to occur at different times from another POV. This effect would make it impossible for two ships that are light-years apart to communicate "simultaneously." Dirty tricks such as sub-space wouldn't solve the problem: they would create bizarre causal loops instead.

98.31.54.35 13:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

It is all rationalized with the existance of subspace. --Pseudohuman 13:42, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone know how it was rationalozed? What case fiction can be presented when reality differs? Fiction exists and if it wasn't then it wouldn't be fiction and real stuff has to be rationalized. But, Star Trek subspac does it. Time travel is caused by everything in the world but not lightspeed - in Star Tres univeerse. ````