Comments on: #901 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:43:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: hjo3 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8136 hjo3 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:49:16 +0000 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8136 I read a thought experiment on Slashdot that showed FTL anything (communication, travel) would violate causality. It was offered in a discussion about quantum entanglement as a reason why information can't be sent that way. I'll have to dig through the articles/threads sometime and see if I can find it... I read a thought experiment on Slashdot that showed FTL anything (communication, travel) would violate causality. It was offered in a discussion about quantum entanglement as a reason why information can’t be sent that way. I’ll have to dig through the articles/threads sometime and see if I can find it…

]]> By: JediBear http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8092 JediBear Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:50:01 +0000 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8092 Since the order of the months isn't actually terribly important, how about we go the other way, get rid of the numbered months and /name/ them? Or, hell, we could just use the Xanth Calendar. (Saptimber, Octogre, Noremember, Dismember) The days of the week are fine. I think there actually is a stardate system. And the reason they rarely account for time dilation in Star Trek is that time dilation /doesn't happen/ at integer warp factors. It makes sense. The only way you could possibly go faster than light without violating causality would be to somehow circumvent time dilation. Since the order of the months isn’t actually terribly important, how about we go the other way, get rid of the numbered months and /name/ them?

Or, hell, we could just use the Xanth Calendar.

(Saptimber, Octogre, Noremember, Dismember)

The days of the week are fine. I think there actually is a stardate system.

And the reason they rarely account for time dilation in Star Trek is that time dilation /doesn’t happen/ at integer warp factors. It makes sense. The only way you could possibly go faster than light without violating causality would be to somehow circumvent time dilation.

]]> By: hjo3 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8087 hjo3 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:24:51 +0000 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8087 Haha, ty Peter! Haha, ty Peter!

]]> By: Peter http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8082 Peter Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:03:30 +0000 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8082 I'd chime in about the whole calendar discussion... but those corn dogs look tasty! :D (And yeah, I know I haven't blogged in forever.) I’d chime in about the whole calendar discussion…

but those corn dogs look tasty! :D

(And yeah, I know I haven’t blogged in forever.)

]]> By: hjo3 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8080 hjo3 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:53:51 +0000 http://www.upsidaisium.com/2007/09/07/901/#comment-8080 No good can come of trying to apply real logic or science to Star Trek... :P As for the stardates, I heard most of them were just random numbers the writers thought up. No good can come of trying to apply real logic or science to Star Trek… :P

As for the stardates, I heard most of them were just random numbers the writers thought up.

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