@sny: Sure. But it popped in my face like nothing else. Kinda of an anti-easter egg. xD
@sny: Sure. But it popped in my face like nothing else. Kinda of an anti-easter egg. xD
[thinks] 186000+ miles per second IIRC.
By checking wikipedia ... the speed of light is 1,079,252,848.8 kilometers per hour. In comparison the speed of sound (Mach 1) is 1,236 kilometers per hour. Roughly a million times faster. Quite a long way to go.
... ProblemSolver, we are all counting on you.
The given problem, reaching speed of light, has no solution. Sorry.
An excursion into physics;
A phycial object that has a mass at rest can't move with the speed of light,
because it's mass would become infinite. And an object that has an infinite
mass can't move at all. One would need an infinite amount of energy to
accelerate an object up to the speed up light. But the energy in our universe
is finite (bounded). Allowing for an infinite amount of energy in the theory of
mathematical physics would render all physical equations useless, that is to
say; those equations won't pose a unique solution despite nature behaves in
a unique way.
/head explodes
Contender Eliminated.
So, you need a ship with zero mass. Or you could do it like in Star Trek:
1) Create a warp bubble around the ship
2) Ship does not move inside the warp bubble
3) Warp bubble moves with speed of light or higher
4) Thus relatively to the track your ship is moving with the speed of light, BUT in terms of physics the ship is stationary.
Problem solved.
Ooops, sorry, this is not my line of text
Well, you could also warp space-time too but then we're turning this into a physics geeks forum. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, i took physics in High School.)
Actually they also use inertial damping fields in Star Trek to reduce the inertial mass of the ship to make it easier to move. So I guess you could just go with that and reduce the ship's mass to zero and not have to bother with the whole warp bubble thing, so long as you didn't want to actually go *faster* than light. Would do wonders for the thrust statistic too ;-).
But of course once you get to those speeds you'd have to start dealing with what the frequency of your ship is and how many of them you have to pilot at once, and other such nonsense.
So if you did manage to get a ship to relativistic speeds, could you theoretically pilot it through *both* branches at the Ubermall split? And would it diffract as it goes through the narrow bit at Anulpha Pass?
So many questions.
/geek
Any Mass Effect fans around?
We need to go to Mars first and find the Prothean data cache with some Element Zero. Then eventually get to Charon and have it thaw to uncover the Mass Relay.
Oh yes, according to Wikipedia:
So the next logical name would be Hypersonic, and not Transonic. However, since we want a Zone which ProblemSolver can reach, Hypersonic is out as well because it corresponds to a minimal speed of around 6000 km/h.
The next zone would have to be Mach 2, but then again I doubt ProblemSolver can even reach that, so unfortunately if we want to remain with the standard we will have to keep Supersonic as the last named Zone, simply because any further realistic objective is humanely impossible to reach (And therefore useless to implement.)
Of course we could also forget about official scientific names and just go with something made up like the first few zones (up to subsonic). I mean, Venom, is that really a speed class in real life?
I vote for Ludicrous speed (as pronounced by Rick Moranis).
I agree. We turned a fun name into a physics debate.
@D777: Good work!
True.
We can use artificial names. Some guys over at SL should stick their heads together
and create some funky names. Easy.
I don't see why not. It's a game, in games, the rules of the universe can be changed.