USS Hawking

OH CRAP! A sperm whale just landed in my yard. What am I going to do with all this blubbler? I guess the ground doesn't make a very good friend to a falling whale. The real questions are, where did the bowl of petunias land and did it really think "OH NO! NOT AGAIN!" before it hit the ground?

So you're into Brownian Motion Generators, huh? ;-) I'm still trying to figure out how to build a Finite Improbability Generator. The chances of me perfecting an improbability algorithm are extremely improbable.

I always liked Douglas Adams concept of the Infinite Improbability Drive, partly because I like to drink tea, but mostly because I don't get invited to those sort of parties.

-rashad People like you are a SciFi author's worst nightmare, not to mention a party pooper! ;-) I do appreciate the kudos though. Thank you! Actually, I'm like that myself. I just love pointing out all the technological liberties some authors take when writing SciFi. It really takes all the fun out of the stories though. The whole imaginary premise behind TransWarp is that it creates a sort of artificial wormhole or conduit through which matter can travel at speeds that would be impossible in normal space. There is also the use of Hyperspace in stories like Babylon 5 where the ships travel ?outside? the normal space/time continuum. Of course this is all a concoction of imagination but that is what makes it so entertaining, at least in my opinion. As for the fine details, this is the starting concept image and definitely needs more work. If you want to keep it technically accurate windows would have to have pretty heavy filtering to cut the optically destructive glare and radiation levels present outside a planetary atmosphere. Plus, contrary to the popular understanding that space is a complete vacuum, you and I both know it?s not. Space has a lot of free hydrogen atoms as well as other elements and dark matter that would cause a great deal of wear on a non-aerodynamic hull design. That is why I envision interstellar ships that travel at great speeds to be sleek with a very smooth hull. Now [I]I'm[/I] rambling. LOL I?ll just end by saying I?ll be doing more work on this one. And I have another design for what I call the Borg Killer AI Guided Antimatter Warp Torpedo. Its purpose is to chase down and destroy Borg Vessels but it would also do very nasty things to space stations and even planetary cities if it got into the wrong hands. ;-) -Horo Thank you for your Kudos!

As it stands, Rashad's essay is more complete than your NCC2112A, however, it is a good start.

So far so good. I feel like the modeling may not yet be complete. I miss windows and decks and other new age spacey types of things. I'm anxious to see what type of situations you will render this space ship in. Of course in reality nothing can move faster than light speed. The only known exception is for the quantum properties of entangled particles. The particles can communicate with one another and exchange states instantly no matter how far apart they are. It's faster than light because light has to take time to travel from one place to another, even if it's only a billionth of a second for a short distance. This is the notion behind "beaming" and teleportation. But it requires established poles. Beaming from one predetermined place to another predetermined place, like a stargate. The nearest star to Earth is over 4 light years away. The Gamma Quadrant would take hundreds of years reach even at light speed. The idea of warp drives has always delighted me as a way of beating the laws of physics and the limits of light speed. In the various tv series there was no single ship powerful enough to travel that far that quickly. They had to use black holes to bend time and reach those crazy high speeds. Warp drives have limited power due to limited mass. As I understand they combine matter and anti-matter which causes a release of pure energy in the form of gamma rays that push the ship forward so quickly that it reaches light speed and fantastically beyond. The ship is wrapped within a field that protects it from the heat of the gamma rays. They also could slam 2 clumps of matter together so powerfully that they create a small temporary black hole that bends the local space extremely pushing the ship forward. The low mass black hole would decay via Hawking radiation almost instantly. But this spreads deadly particles about that would likely kill all humans, as neutrinos cannot be filterd with magnetic fields. A better approach is to slingshot oneself along the event horizon of a very large black hole that would catapult you to a very high speed, but it would increase your relative mass greatly and it would take alot of force to slow back down again. One would be likely to go on forever at that super high speed. Black holes and their event horizons will destroy most ships unless the ship itself has enough internal momentum to keep it whole so close to a black hole that wants to tear it apart through gravity. Sorry, I'm rambling. I LOVE THIS STUFF. KEEP IT COMING!