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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel: [QB] Very good! You people remember your physics! Photons and quanta are interchangable terms, which is why ALL electromagnetic energy travels at c, if that helps any of you understand. Any particle in motion, (and all particles HAVE to be in motion), emits these "discrete energy packets", hence the ability for practically any element to emit a visible spectrograph when their atoms are excited enough. The quanta are given off by the electrons of an atom escaping their normal ground orbitals and falling back into them again. This is, of course, how we determine the elements stars are made up of, calculate the Doppler effect of these stars, etc. I think the problem Letsalope and PsyLiam are having is the concept of subspace and actual velocity versus perceived velocity. Letsalope is concentrating on the velocity of a starship within its subspace bubble, and PsyLiam on its velocity without. Again, inside the bubble, a ship doesn't travel faster than the speed of light. Outside, it does. Or seems to. Correct me if I'm wrong or being too pretentious. To me, it seems transporters do transport at the speed of light, as someone said, because matter is converted into energy. The computers aboard Federation starships also work faster that light, but don't ask me how. All I know is that the cores contain subspace field machinery to accomplish it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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