If in the t.v. series Star Trek they were on a 5 year mission to explore strange new worlds and a planet was 5 light years away or more, how could they have explored so many planets? I figure going warp 5 (5 x speed of light) it would take them one year to get there and one to get back. At this rate they could have only explored two planets and yet they explored so many more.
Just sticking to the "Deep Thoughts from Brian" theme.
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Warp theory was never consistent in the series, but it is told that Gene Roddenberry's idea was that each level of warm was exponential rather than linear. In other words, warp 5 is not five times the speed of light. Warp 5 would be using a cubic exponent would be 125 times the speed of light, but even that does not solve all the distance problems that Star Trek had.
Wow, never thought about warp being exponential instead of linear. Cool thought.
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