Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier on History Channel

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cwerdna @ Feb 20 2007, 04:37 AM) [snapback]393185[/snapback]</div>

cwerdna, they have 3 different Star Trek shows on ,

1st. William Shatner hosts how Star Trek changed the world.

2nd. Star Trek Tech

3rd Beyond the Final Frontier .

I also DVR'd them as Im a original Trekk fan and a TNG fan

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cwerdna @ Feb 20 2007, 06:26 AM) [snapback]393193[/snapback]</div>

ahhh, ok I didnt know the others where reruns.... :mellow:

 

Need to watch this.

Someone did a book The Science of Star Trek ( related link > http://www.exn.ca/mini/startrek/startrek.cfm )

Holodeck - It' nearly here, except there are no real objects

Faster Than Light (Warp) Travel - Possible, but lots of work needs to be done - check back in a couple of centuries

Hypospray - it's here

Communicators - Why don't they have an episode of ST with distracted crewmembers bumping into each over while talking on their communicators?

Transporter - Came very close to saying it's impossible, esp. human transport. In 1995 technology, the data to transport a human would take a stack of 20MB hard drives one third the distance of the Milky Way and 4-5 billion years to process. There there is the question: it this the real person or a clone? Great promise on computer technology however.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusguy04 @ Feb 20 2007, 07:33 AM) [snapback]393201[/snapback]</div>

In case anyone is interested "Enterprise" with Capt. Archer is on the Sci-fi channel between the hours of 7-11PM on Monday nights.

Also, the channel that used to run "Enterprise" is running the original Star Trek episodes 1 or 2 times a week. I think they were called UBN, but I'm not positive.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Walker1 @ Feb 20 2007, 03:18 PM) [snapback]393406[/snapback]</div>

That would be UPN. Now the CW.

Did anyone buy the original series DVD sets that came out not too long ago? Really wanting those (Scott that is. On this topic Megan is actively disinterested if not horrified).

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MegansPrius @ Feb 20 2007, 04:41 PM) [snapback]393556[/snapback]</div>

Of course Megan could play into this and one day dress as Seven of Nine...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Delta Flyer @ Feb 20 2007, 07:46 AM) [snapback]393289[/snapback]</div>

Unfortunately, it's debatable whether faster-than-light travel is possible. There are some good reasons to believe it is not. Relativity says that faster-than-light travel in one frame of reference is travel backwards in time in another frame of reference. If relativity is correct, any general faster-than-light travel scheme can be turned into a time machine. And causality issues make that problematic.

Of course it could well be that our understanding of relativity is wrong and faster-than-light travel is actually possible. But at best this makes it unknown whether or not it's possible.

There's a very thorough discussion of the physics of faster-than-light travel (and communication), including discussion of warp drive and wormholes, here:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Rela...fLight/FTL.html

 

Check out > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warp_drive_%2...ive_possible.3F - then click "Alcubierre drive"

It's still very early, but it may be possible.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Delta Flyer @ Feb 20 2007, 07:22 PM) [snapback]393667[/snapback]</div>

Agreed, it may be possible. But it may not be.

A working Alcubierre drive would allow a time machine to be constructed. That suggests that the problems with the drive, such as negative energy densities, are fundamental. Or maybe time machines are possible and going back in time forks off a new timeline, or there is some other solution to the causality problem. It's all informed speculation, until we can actually build one.