The math in the game is not making sense at high speed

[Antichthon]

You Sir should watch the Science of Doctor Who special

"Dr. Who" is one of the most grievous insults to your intelligence imaginable.

Seriously though, Dr Who's science rates below Star Wars. Which in turn is below Star Trek. Which an average middle schooler already knows is full of fantasy. I'd rather watch "Ancient Aliens" than a special about Dr. Who science. At least everyone already knows the "Ancient Aliens" guys are wackaloons.

 

[MrVibrating]

Bottom line, the game's horribly designed and broken. Given that if commits the worst possible blasphemy of a 'universal' time zone, the very least it could do is give the ETA as an Estimated Time of Arrival - ie. if my clock says 12:00 and i'm due a 30 minute AFK break while en route to Hutton Orbital then it should read ETA 12:30. This is how ETA's work in every other real-world usage.

 

[Darkwolf]

This is how ETA's work in every other real-world usage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_time_of_arrival

ETA is also used metaphorically in situations where nothing actually moves physically, as in describing the time estimated for a certain task to complete

In other words, ETA can either be the reading on the wall clock when the task completes, or can also be the amount of time remaining until the task completes. Either use is acceptable.

You were saying?

 

[darshie76]

"Dr. Who" is one of the most grievous insults to your intelligence imaginable.

Seriously though, Dr Who's science rates below Star Wars. Which in turn is below Star Trek. Which an average middle schooler already knows is full of fantasy. I'd rather watch "Ancient Aliens" than a special about Dr. Who science. At least everyone already knows the "Ancient Aliens" guys are wackaloons.

Actually they have quite some points; that explain many things that we now simply assume as either unknown or illogical.

Like with religion, you can just add an ancient alien reference, an everything makes sense! They are not wackos, they simply look at things in a different way.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth

 

[SE-Apocalypse]

"Dr. Who" is one of the most grievous insults to your intelligence imaginable.

Seriously though, Dr Who's science rates below Star Wars. Which in turn is below Star Trek. Which an average middle schooler already knows is full of fantasy. I'd rather watch "Ancient Aliens" than a special about Dr. Who science. At least everyone already knows the "Ancient Aliens" guys are wackaloons.

And your post is the most grievous insult to mankind this day so far. I said you should watch The Science of Doctor Who and not that Doctor who's gadgets are scientifically correct. If you do not like real world science than just say so instead of complaining.

 

[darshie76]

Yea... "counter-intuitive" is a way to put it softly, been trying to wrap my mind around the logic behind relativity and why it is as it seems to be, to no avail so far. To me it just doesn't make sense.

Relativity is not hard, quantum physics is also not hard either; it all depends on how do we consider matter. If you look at matter as something that has a mass; then it will behave in a way. If you consider it as energetic wave, it will behave in a different way. The fun part is that one entity, could be at the same time both a wave and a body with mass; based on how do you examine it.

The mistake is that in our school, they teach standard physics and then they tell you "btw, forget all that you learned, because there is also this different physics; that is harder to experience unless you go to a particle accelerator laboratory". Physics is probably the only subject that has such inconsistency...math gets more complex, but you don't find cases where you need to wipe your previous knowledge and see at things in a whole different way

We need to think quadrimensionally at this point; beside x, y and z, there is also time, which is a dimension too.

 

[tasev1]

Dude....it DOES make sense. The counter is not taking into consideration acceleration - it is only looking at instantaneous speed at the moment it calculates ETA. If it is calculating ETA every 5 seconds for example, then it is simply extrapolating ESTIMATED eta until your speed becomes unchanging. And then as you slow down, it will change AGAIN.

It is impossible to calculate unless you know rate of acceleration and exact timing of it.

SO STOP TRYING.

 

[darshie76]

And your post is the most grievous insult to mankind this day so far. I said you should watch The Science of Doctor Who and not that Doctor who's gadgets are scientifically correct. If you do not like real world science than just say so instead of complaining.

That was harsh; he is not complaining; he just said that the science behind that show is a bit wrecked, and not functional to actually learn the real world/space physics.

This whole thing is relatively silly, since we are talking of space ship that travel trough space with engines and shields, which does not really exist in the real world. We could talk of unicorns and ponies in the space engine that makes everything possible at this point But ED has a sort of "realistic" feel, so we can't just dismiss things as "yeah, that's made up"

 

[Drathmar]

As for disintegrating, you're not accelerating past light speed. That's impossible. Instead, the FSD compresses space around you, making the distance shorter. You're not travelling at, say, 500c. You're travelling at an equivalent to 500c!

And thus we have how mathematics think.