On 10/15/09 2:47 PM, Jon Lang wrote:
I'm thinking of trying a space opera setting where the distinction between interplanetary travel and interstellar travel is merely one of scale, not of type. In particular, I want the standard drive system to be a gravity drive that uses a version of Alcubierre's "warp bubble" theory to ignore the lightspeed barrier.
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If I am not remembering the wrong thing, this warp bubble theory is moving a bubble a space instead of accelerating the ship right...
So what happens when the drive turns off? It seems to me that the ship will still have the same velocity in normal space that it had when the drive was turned on.
That would mean that it would need reaction thrusters to match velocity with its destination. That would make traveling very far interstellar really difficult, because the further you go the more relative motion you'd have to compensate for, taking into account star motion, galactic rotation and universal expansion.
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