No. Just because time scales with distance doesn't mean distance "is" time. Space-Time is a dimension, but that's a whole other discussion.
Perhaps a very stupid question!
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No. Just because time scales with distance doesn't mean distance "is" time. Space-Time is a dimension, but that's a whole other discussion.
some would say perception creates reality. and even go as far to say there is no reality as long as it's not perceived
here's a thought that make my brain fiz the pillars of creation huge star forming nebula we saw with the Hubble telescope right?
well it's so far away that it has most likely completely dissipated condensed and finished star formation by now.
ready for the fizzy bit?
imagine you could travel towards it at many times the speed of light but still observe it as you go faster and faster you could see it wind forward in time and if you did the same thing going away from it you could re run it backward.
now that fizzics!
i really need to pay attention to the voices more!
well it's so far away that it has most likely completely dissipated condensed and finished star formation by now.
ready for the fizzy bit?
imagine you could travel towards it at many times the speed of light but still observe it as you go faster and faster you could see it wind forward in time and if you did the same thing going away from it you could re run it backward.
now that fizzics!
i really need to pay attention to the voices more!
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Technically, moving towards the nebula would only fast forward the show. Not rewind it. You'd have to move away from it at FTL speeds to rewind it.
yes got carried away with the fizzing have edited it now
have some rep though but hey still fizzy huh?
so the explanation has to be, the cockpit adjusts all the positions of the stars to their position "now" and creates an illusion of a simultaneity for your convenience.
I don't think that's possible far away from civilized space where no observations on star motion are recorded, though. I would rather accept the explanation about FSD detecting the mass of those stars directly.
It's the same concept as in Stargate. In the 1994 movie and in the first episode of the show. They could only go to Abydos at first because it was relatively close to earth, and hadn't moved much. But everything else had, so the cartouche found there was out of date. For the remainder of the show, they could only go to planets that their super computers had figured out the alignments of to compensate for the symbols on the Stargate when it dialed out. That's what the dialing computer did. Reroute them.
well, not so sure. "directly" suggests that any information, and gravity is information, is faster than light, while in fact it isn't. so in the end you would run into the same problems.
Frontier needs to add a telescope module so I can go 2015Ly out, look back, and see Christ being born.
just to be sure, so you're 90 years old at least and have done this 45 years in the past, right?
We have to accept that, as this is a game. Otherwise, I would go nuts with rage for this one: you are jumping up and down the galaxy, traveling many times the speed of light... just one two-way trade route would make all the stuff I carry obsolete. Hell, the population might by then have two heads and gills, whatever. Centuries would have passed.
I've become very suspicious of my ship when in Supercruise. If I'm zooming around a system at anywhere from .5C to 500C, how is it giving me real time information about where other ships are when the distance is 500 Light Seconds? Commander Cheese Nose might not be there at all! He might have left the system three minutes ago! He might have veered off course and is even now hurtling into the photosphere of a star
IT'S GUESSING! No wonder interdiction doesn't always work!
IT'S GUESSING! No wonder interdiction doesn't always work!
Maybe gravity is faster than light after all. There are some theories on that, if i'm not mistaken. But there's no theories on light being faster than light, so accepting fsd being able to get gravity data would still make more sense.
By the way, since we routinely travel at speed higher than speed of light, maybe the onboard computer just watches all stars while we accelerate and builds its information about their motion on this... but this still wouldn't explain the far far away stars.
Well, that's the whole point of the FTL travel concept. Creating a relativistic bubble around yourself so that time and space are unaffected. if we were to try approaching the speed of light using traditional means, our bodies would be stretched to near infinite mass by the time we even got close.
Or just accept it as a gaming compromise. Anyways, good reply. Thx!