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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Alpha Centauri: [QB] Masao: The TNG:TM tactically avoids speaking of the first manned flight. After the text about the unmanned prototype, the next paragraph elaborates: "Early CDP engines, which were only informally dubbed "warp" engines, met with success, and were almost immediately incorporated into existing spacecraft designs". It goes on saying that Cochrane and his team eventually relocated to the Alpha Centauri colonies [INTERESTING: this suggests that there were already colonies established in the a Cen system. Maybe with sublight sleeper ships?], and that that move only took four years because of spacecraft equipped with early warp engines. If we take four years as exact travel time, one comes to an average velocity of 1.075c. And here some info about the unmanned warp prototype, derived from the TNG:TM. [*] The prototype was described as a "fluctuation impeller" (whatever that might mean). [*] It did not actually broke the lightspeed barrier, but travelled at precisely [i]c[/i]. [*] This was achieved by "alternating between two velocity states while remaining at neither for longer than Planck time, 1.3x10<SUP>-43</SUP> second, the smallest possible unit of measurable time. This had the net effect of maintaining velocities <U>at</U> [underlining by me] the previously unattainable speed of light, while avoiding the theoretically infinite energy expenditure which would otherwise have been required". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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