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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Joshua Bell: [QB] That logic makes sense, of course. But that doesn't appear to be part of Shakaar's story. If you look at his site (http://www.craigdannenberg.com/bajor/warp.html) it simply resets the point where the curve goes asymptotic from 10 to 20. Also, it posits TNG9.5=new10, 9.99=new11, and so on. If there were an energy minimum at 9.5 one would hope that it was known to 2360 scientists. And now for the counterarguments: One fanboy explanation for the TOS vs. TNG scale is that the TOS scale was an approximation dating from times when you couldn't go much past Warp 3, so W^3 and W^(10/3) were "close enough", and even when faster speeds were routine the scale continued to be in use. So you could apply the same thing to the TNG/new scales, and say that in the 2360s it was known that there were energy minima beyond W9, but the old scale was still in use. Also: Something I want to plot now is the log of velocity (not Warp factor) vs. energy use per the TNG TM. From what I recall of the graph (i.e. too lazy to look at my own site), the minima are less "minimal" at each step. You could imagine, therefore, that there are energy minima at TNG W=9.5 and 9.99 (etc), but they are so "shallow" that they're not worth quibbling about, or were lost in the noise, so that for a long time it was assumed the energy/velocity curve was smooth from W=9 upwards. So you could say that the TNG scale came into use in the 2290s or so, where it was assumed that W=9 was "it". Later on, other minima were discovered, but no-one was cruising around above W=9, so it didn't matter. Then in the 2380s they finally got sick of saying "9.995" and updated the scale. If I were coming up with a revised scale, though, I'd just let the minima decrease to nothing smoothly, so there would be no "final minima" and hence no integral Warp factor that logically corresponded to infinite velocity. Just let v=W^(10/3) and be done with it. ... Anyone want to bring up "Threshold" [VOY]? No, didn't think so. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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