I wonder what the speed is mph or km/h? 
Does anny one know?
I m not into star trek and all but was just wondering cuz I saw it a few times when I was bored 
299 792 458 m / s= warp 1, which is the speed of light.
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299 792 458 m / s= warp 1, which is the speed of light.
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do you have a source for that? :)
thanx in advance
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I can tell you don't use google much. :D
just google speed of light.
I thought warping is greater than the speed of light. Thus, you could warp across the universe much faster than it would take a light beam to travel the same distance.
If warping were just matching the speed of light, what difference would there be between Warp speed 1 and warp speed 5?
nothing can travel faster then speed of light.. mother nature has set the limit... warp speed is bending the fabric of space.. Suppose you want to travel from point A to point B ... You bend the path from A to B in U shape now pont A and B are much closer to each other.
The warp threshold was redefined in TNG, when the limited Warp 10 as the maximum warp, but previously they had been to speeds higher than that. Then all of a sudden in voyager, they came out with Trans Warp, so its hard to pin it to one particular speed.
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I thought warping is greater than the speed of light. Thus, you could warp across the universe much faster than it would take a light beam to travel the same distance.
If warping were just matching the speed of light, what difference would there be between Warp speed 1 and warp speed 5?
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warp speed 1 is the speed of light whereas warp speed 5 is the speed of light times 5. pretty simple.
according to this website (which gets its info from the star trek encyclopedia), warp 1 correlates directly to the speed of light, and the higher warp speeds are arranged exponentially like the richter scale: eg warp 2 is ten times the speed of warp 1, and 1/10th the speed of warp 3. Iâve been a life long trek fan and always wondered about this.
is there any truth in warping or is just Star Trek talk?
under the E=MC squared paradigm, travel at speeds greater than the speed of light is not theoretically possible
^i think it is vice versa: "under the speed of light is constant and nothing can travel faster"-paradigm E=MC^2
actually, relativity doesnt prohibit speeds greater than that of the speed of light. however its impossible for slower objects to cross over the limit to the higher side, and vice versa. time flows backwards at speeds higher than c.
^ that's my understanding as well. I meant that "we" can't achieve light speed, unless of course we achieve infinite mass and time stops. Of course Bush is president so anything's possible!
not directly related but..
one theoretical way of achieving super light speeds is to tunnel thru space, the idea being like that of joining the ends of a paper and going from one side to the other. i think this figures in trek as wormholes.
another thing.. doesnt e=mc^2 apply limitations on approaching the speed of light, and not crossing it? I mean, for example, if thru some magical way you could avoid that barrier and cross it, theoretically would there be a limitation on you in terms of mass/time?
another thing i never understood about trek. you can accelerate the speed of mass, thereoretically over the speed of light. But you cannot increase the speed of light/energy no? Then how do they carry on video conferences with earth?Is there a techno babble explanation for this too.. if so I'd like to shut up a friend :).
Warping is one of the finest theory i have ever heard, a way to travel in the space.
Ofcourse space itself is not a perfect vacume, thus leaving a chance to actually swim in it. Theoratically u will contract the space in front of u & release it behind, a bit similar how u would swim.
But there r huge number of complications, first of all the ammount of energy needed is theoratically only possible to acheive from Matter & Anti-Matter controlled fussion engines etc ..the ones like in Sci. Fic. movies.
Secondly, what happens when we reach the speed of light ? According to E=MC^2, u wull be turned into a light urself, but if not, or, even if u do & continue ur work the way u were doing u maybe able to travel alot more faster then the speed of light.
Other complication is if u really need to travel faster then light ? becos when u reach the speed of light, the time becomes zero, hence speed dosent matter. But it still does for those who r not in the same frame of refrence.
Lets say, u r 1000 light years away from Earth, if u travel at the speed of light for u the time was zero & u will feel u reached earth in no time, but ppl on earth will be long gone, for them u came back after 1000 years, so u do want to travel alot more faster then the speed of light.
Light it self dosent have a same speed, its been proven that in some chemicals & near strong gravitational forces it changes. Some of the rays travel fatser & some dosent.
Ravage the concept if called âWorm Holesâ It is beleived there maybe some Worm Holes in space tho never truely proved.
Warping on the other hand is a term to create an artificial Worm Hole (i.e. Grab the papers other side, contract it & release it behind).
Ravage:
wormholes are an extreme oddity whose existence is stated by relativity. But unlike parallel universes, there are no observations or vague experiments to give us proof that they exsist.
wormhole is, simply, a turnnel through space-two âmouthsâ connected by a throat. The mouths would be like black holes minus the singularity at the center so one could pass through. As for the structure of the tunnel, It s is all theoretical. 
However, it is known that space-time behaves differently in a wormhole, so whether a wormhole looks like the longer path or not, it is the shortest distance between two points
Wormholes sound like a great way for us to boost our space exploration program, but if they do exist, thereâs a major problem-theyâre sub-mircoscopic thus invisible for everyone.
To travel thru it, a few major problems need to be solved first.:
First of all, it would have to be enlarged and stabilized. To do this, weâd need to find a way to âstretch spaceâ. Once enlarged, the wormhole would have to be propped open with a so-called âexotic materialâ that has an outward tension that equals the pressure at the center of the neutron star. (Recalling that neutron star is what collapses to form a black hole, you can imagine that kinds of pressure.) Then once we have a sizable and stable wormhole, weâd have to find away to move the ends so that they took us where we wanted to go
Supposing that we could accomplish this, weâd have the setup for the most classic of all science-fiction plots: Time Travel :halo: