Anti-Photons ;-)

posted on March 17th, 2009, 8:31 pm

Because coils are the best design to keep things moving. If it were anything else, you'd have corners to deal with, but in a coil, it just requires a constant force of a lower power.

posted on March 17th, 2009, 8:50 pm

That was not really a question about appropriate geometry, of course corners will prohibit movement. I thought I already implied this by saying that there is most probably rotating plasma within them. OK, more precisly: What are they rotating plasma for?

(Please noone answer "The rotating plasma is for generating the warp field")

posted on March 17th, 2009, 10:47 pm

Hey mimesot,
The rotation of plasma in the warp coils is for generating the warp field.  Everyone knows that, silly! :fish:

Or it does something phantastic with subspace, and any thoughts about it (from a scientific p.o.v.) are waste. 

I think you nailed it.  For them, it probably didn't go any farther than "Hey, if you coil up a wire it becomes an electromagnet with a magnetic field, and warp field has the word "field" in it, so uhh, the two must be connected!  Good work guys!  Let's go to lunch!" 

posted on March 20th, 2009, 7:34 am

@everybody, who is interested in developements

I found someting rather speculative, but I like the idea: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/WO2007082324.html

Perhaps we can rethink some technologies.

posted on March 20th, 2009, 1:23 pm

so Atlantis do we have any submarines in star trek.

posted on March 20th, 2009, 1:32 pm

In the "water" model, all ships with warp drive are submarines. It's not literal, anyway, just a way of thinking about subspace.

Besides, yes, there were submarines in Star Trek TNG: Best of Both Worlds (Part 2)

posted on March 20th, 2009, 1:47 pm

Starships are like a space version of submarines.

posted on March 20th, 2009, 3:29 pm

@ Atlantis

I really like your model! (even if it is incompatible with spezial reativity, as the whole subspace)

Have you ever thought about, how diving up and down could work?

posted on March 20th, 2009, 9:15 pm

well i guess by submarine i ment a ship that would stay in subspace and also remain stationary. but it could also fire weapons into real space.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 12:43 am

well i guess by submarine i ment a ship that would stay in subspace and also remain stationary. but it could also fire weapons into real space.

Scimitar with a perfect Phase Cloak?

posted on March 21st, 2009, 12:50 am

The Scimitar has a phase cloak? That one's new but if thats the scientific explanation, it still makes sense 

posted on March 21st, 2009, 12:54 am

Scimitar with a perfect Phase Cloak?

If you are cloaked you are still in real space not subspace.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 1:11 am

Phase cloak, those are not standard cloaks.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 2:28 am

true but from what ive read a phased cloak doesnt force the ship into subspace, its still in realspace.

posted on March 21st, 2009, 3:26 am

Memory Alpha says it pushes the ship out phase with the Space-Time Continuum, which means out of Space and Subspace.