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A question of time

If two ships travel to the same point in space from the same starting point and the first ship takes one day at x1 hyperspace, how long would the second ship take at the fastest sublight speed?
9/11/2006, 7:39 pm  
 
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Uh...longer than the life time of the crew? Newtonian physics won't allow ships to travel between stars in a timely manner. At relativistic speeds (and beyond for our handwavium factor) you would reach the stars in a timely fashion, though the method of achieving those speeds is open for debate.

If you're talking within the same planetary system...and the hyperdrive was active for 1 second instead of a day...well I would guess that the sublight vessel would still take hours to days to even months longer.

That's question's answer really can't be known with any real precision or accuracy. I hope this helps though -

Hyperdrive - Instant (within system)

Sublight (1c) - up to 6.7 hours to Pluto at aphelion (furthest from the sun).

Sublight (.01c) - about 28 days to Pluto at aphelion.

You would have a wide disparity of time depending on the speed settled on for your upper limit for "maximum" sublight speed. Though sublight seems to indicate less than c.

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9/11/2006, 7:51 pm  
 
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It is only different, when distance is below minimal hyperjump distance. Then the sublight ship would reach the destination very quickly. The hyperdrive ship however would have to jump, turn in hyperspace and exit at the destination. But that would be a very exotic situation.

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Re: A question of time

 What is the fastest sublight speed??

 Wouldn't that be 99.999999% of light speed?

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 Obviously you need to find out how fast the particular ship is without a hyperdrive. But it would be an insurmountable time unless the ship has the ability to support cyrogenic freezing.

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9/13/2006, 2:25 pm  
 
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no 99.9999999999999999........... % would be faster emoticon emoticon

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 Technicalities!! emoticon emoticon

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