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Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sat Dec 5 19:14:29 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Dec 3 14:19:28 2015. Despite other definitions that have been given, I think the most sensible meaning for "warp factor" would be the ratio of light-minutes covered (in a reference frame with the galaxy as a whole at rest) to elapsed minutes of the ship's proper time (or light-hours to hours, etc.) On this scale, warp 1 = 70.71% of c, warp 2 = 89.44% c, etc. In general, warp n = sin(arctan(n)) c. |
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