Hyperdrive vs Slipstream

[TheBigFlush]

4. And Wormholes (Stargate, Supergate): Stargate Movie & Series (this is also an FTL travel method)

Is a wormhole technically faster-than-light? You're not actually travelling the distance from one place to another, you're taking an alternate route (ie: a hole through space).

[ZakeD]

Is a wormhole technically faster-than-light? You're not actually travelling the distance from one place to another, you're taking an alternate route (ie: a hole through space).

Yes.

[TheBigFlush]

Yes.

Please elaborate...

[ZakeD]

Please elaborate...

You're still traveling somewhere faster than light, right? By that logic hyperspace wouldn't be ftl either, since you are also taking an alternate route through hyperspace. Most people consider traveling through a wormhole to be ftl travel.

[Hyperwarp]

It is method to travel great distances. Yes, it is like a short-cut. But, provides people and with supergate even ships to travel massive distances very quickly. Where it may take thousand of years in hyperspace.

Even the WarpDrive, technically the ship does not actually travel faster than light. It never does. Withing the warp-field its sub-light. The ability travel long distance is that contracting-expanding of space.

[kefke20]

there are are Five ways of travel with a spaceship:

1. Hyper-drive: Use in Star Wars and Stargate

2. Slipstream: Used in Andromeda and Halo

3. Warp: Star Trek

4. Jump: Battlestar Galatica

5. Time: Doctor Who

there are probably more types of travel but I think these are the main ones.

Hyper-drives is for me. It's Fast, you can communicate, and manly it's used by my favorite sci-fi

The Time thing that the Doctor uses is my second choice

the fast way to travel by a scifi serie is to fould spacs like in dune
or star treks warp factor 10

[Hyperwarp]

In real space, 'Special relativity' poses a major problem. So Sci-Fi writers have to come up with alternative methods.

All of these things, Hyperspace, Slipstream, Warping Space, Wormholes etc, etc are alternative methods to get around the whole issue of 'Special relativity'. We are NOT traveling in real space.

Even Hyperspace has several descriptions itself:

1. You enter a dimension where 'Special relativity' does not apply.
2. Or, Hyperspace space is smaller than real space and keeps getting smaller. Smaller means faster.

So, these are all short cuts. NOT real space travel.

[TheBigFlush]

You're still traveling somewhere faster than light, right? By that logic hyperspace wouldn't be ftl either, since you are also taking an alternate route through hyperspace. Most people consider traveling through a wormhole to be ftl travel.

Taking a shortcut from Point A to Point B doesn't mean you're actually travelling any faster. It just seems to me that a wormhole wouldn't be considered FTL. But hey, I'm no scientician.

[IcyNeko]

Trek uses Slipstream (unsuccessfully), Warp, Trans-warp, and wormhole travel.

[ZakeD]

Taking a shortcut from Point A to Point B doesn't mean you're actually travelling any faster. It just seems to me that a wormhole wouldn't be considered FTL. But hey, I'm no scientician.

You didn't get my meaning. I was saying that when you use a wormhole you are going somewhere faster than it would take light to get there.

[IcyNeko]

But you're not travelling in any sort of linear progression. You're bending space. It's like folding the earth so that you can travel to India in one step. It's nto that you're running through the distance in that time. You've folded the distance.

[ZakeD]

I think it's safe to assume most people on this forum understand how a wormhole works.

[TheBigFlush]

You didn't get my meaning. I was saying that when you use a wormhole you are going somewhere faster than it would take light to get there.

No, I understood your meaning completely. But you're only getting there faster than it would take light to get there because you're taking a different route. If light could pass through the same wormhole, then it would get there faster.

[chilapox3]

Well, the way to calculate speed is distance over time. Theres no spot in the equation for how you got there. Just the distance you travelled, divided by the time it took you to get there, so yes, wormholes are faster than light travel.

Although the faster than light thing is more like faster than light in normal space-time because if light travelled through a wormhole, it would be going faster than itself and that doesnt make sense.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

I think it's safe to assume most people on this forum understand how a wormhole works.

yea i would assume i do.