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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] "If there aren't 9 energy minima, then the whole thing is moot anyway since the TNG scale doesn't make any sense. I don't think you can have your cake and eat it, too." Well, it should make sense for TNG. It would only be after this era that scientists realize they have been in partial error. Happens all the time in the real world. The lines in the visible part of absorption spectra weren't invalidated when the UV spectrum was added, for example. More code letters were simply systematically added. Similar things in the field of particle physics in turn show that the "systematically" part isn't necessary. Most scientific designation "systems" are far more arbitrary than the TNG warp scale, even though they accurately describe a well-defined set of phenomena. It sounds perfectly possible that UFP science in 2360 would know of nine warp minima, and in 2390 of seventeen, with the inkling of an idea of a hypothesis that there would be even more to be discovered in the future. For us ten-fingered folks, it would be aesthetically pleasing to use the designation "warp 10" for something in the 2360s, and infinite speed is as good a candidate as any; in 2390, though, there would be no similar psychological need to assign "warp 18" as infinity. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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