-
Greetings Commander, want a more instant approach to your questions and need for help? Check out the Galactic Academy Discord server!
Feel free to join the Galactic Academy Discord server by clicking here!
Newcomer / Intro Pondering the Gravity Well...
- Thread starter GiantLeap
- Start date
Not exact and some handwavium and makeupiam are involved but...
When we travel in supercruise in a system we create a bubble of warped spacetime about our ships and because of stuff that lets us go faster than light without breaking relativity.
Spacetime can be considered as an elastic sheet that gets distorted if you put anything with mass on it so a planet makes a deep pit or well in that surface the sides of which get steeper the nearer the mass you get.
When your warp bubble goes from a relatively flat bit of spacetime to the steep bit in the well it has traction issues like a car moving onto loose gravel or ice from a grippy road surface.
We get warned this is happening so we don't panic because our speed is dropping even though the 'engines' are working harder.
We also get the warning when we drop out of SCO as our ships are traveling faster than the normal warp bubble is capable of in that bit of spacetime.
When we travel in supercruise in a system we create a bubble of warped spacetime about our ships and because of stuff that lets us go faster than light without breaking relativity.
Spacetime can be considered as an elastic sheet that gets distorted if you put anything with mass on it so a planet makes a deep pit or well in that surface the sides of which get steeper the nearer the mass you get.
When your warp bubble goes from a relatively flat bit of spacetime to the steep bit in the well it has traction issues like a car moving onto loose gravel or ice from a grippy road surface.
We get warned this is happening so we don't panic because our speed is dropping even though the 'engines' are working harder.
We also get the warning when we drop out of SCO as our ships are traveling faster than the normal warp bubble is capable of in that bit of spacetime.
That's the whole ball of wax!!! Everything must remain relative to something within our knowledge? Brilliant!!
I was watching the currently selected body numbers declining slowly while I was getting close to being inserted into star. It seems like if I can try not to go faster than =/- 10 seconds of realistic counting. Bad explaination, but it works to negate the gravity pull. Maybe, seems like.
I was watching the currently selected body numbers declining slowly while I was getting close to being inserted into star. It seems like if I can try not to go faster than =/- 10 seconds of realistic counting. Bad explaination, but it works to negate the gravity pull. Maybe, seems like.
If you want to check out the real life basis for this, see the theoretical Alcubierre Drive, also called the warp drive.
The plasma ball maybe holds the beginning of a new comprehension. But beyond that. I don't think we currently have a mechanism for controlling travel at light speed. At a minimum I would wonder if you could even see anymore, traveling at the speed of light. These complex meat sacks of ours can only do so much, we(the humans) won't be traveling at light speed without a much greater understanding of what that implies. Not possible.