Thursday, April 8, 2010

SO IN CONCLUSION!

I'm still waiting for George Lucas' apology.

I'll accept it whenever he's willing to admit he made a mistake.

But that will be never.

And if he says, "it's just a story, [Dr.] Dru." Then I'll respond with a simple: Then stop dressing up like an Ewok, weirdo.

8 comments:

  1. Perhaps the Falcon is the only ship maneuverable enough (and Han Solo daring enough) to take certain hyperspace paths - and in the world of Lucas where he says the ship that can take the most direct path is the fastest - it makes sense. So in this world, the agility of a ship with hyperdrive capabilities could be more important than it's "speed" which certainly without a hyperdrive would be < c, when colloquially communicating about "how fast the ship is." I am not a Star War's expert - or even really a fan. Just a thought.

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  2. I have a theory that may validate the speed/distance issue. Let us assue that a hyper drive actually warps the space time fabric and that hyperspace is the space between the folds of space-time.

    A stronger hyper drive would be able to create a tighter fold that would be, say, 11.5 parsec instead of 18 parsecs. Now we need to resolve the black hole/star/planet issue. At one point in "A New Hope" Han Solo mentions something about not flying through a star. Because stars and planets and Black Holes are so massive they actually warp the space-time continuum a hyper drive would no be strong enough to safely fold the space-time continuum. That would than force the use of a pilot/computer use. Meaning a pilot would have to be daring enough to fly near a black hole despite the danger. Meaning that the Engine-Computer-Pilot combo is more important than any one or two elements.

    Finally we must deal with the time/age issue. So we can assume that because they leave the Space-time continuum we can than assume that they are not experiencing a passage of time thereby mitigating the amount of aging actually experienced by those on hyperspace.

    If you don't buy that, than consider this, while in hyperspace the rules of physics are different allowing the Falcon to travel much faster than the speed of light in normal space effectively reducing the amount of time spent in hyperspace and the actual time spent traveling allowing for Han Solo to traverse the Galaxy without dying of old age before leaving his birth system.

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  3. I have a theory that may validate the speed/distance issue. Let us assue that a hyper drive actually warps the space time fabric and that hyperspace is the space between the folds of space-time.

    A stronger hyper drive would be able to create a tighter fold that would be, say, 11.5 parsec instead of 18 parsecs. Now we need to resolve the black hole/star/planet issue. At one point in "A New Hope" Han Solo mentions something about not flying through a star. Because stars and planets and Black Holes are so massive they actually warp the space-time continuum a hyper drive would no be strong enough to safely fold the space-time continuum. That would than force the use of a pilot/computer use. Meaning a pilot would have to be daring enough to fly near a black hole despite the danger. Meaning that the Engine-Computer-Pilot combo is more important than any one or two elements.

    Finally we must deal with the time/age issue. So we can assume that because they leave the Space-time continuum we can than assume that they are not experiencing a passage of time thereby mitigating the amount of aging actually experienced by those on hyperspace.

    If you don't buy that, than consider this, while in hyperspace the rules of physics are different allowing the Falcon to travel much faster than the speed of light in normal space effectively reducing the amount of time spent in hyperspace and the actual time spent traveling allowing for Han Solo to traverse the Galaxy without dying of old age before leaving his birth system.

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  4. What we know about travelling faster than light can be read on black paper with black ink.
    The theory of relativity refers in part to the relative view of the observer, we are unable to observe anything faster than light so light speed is both a physical and psychological barrier (we don't let blind people drive busses) but assuming that exceeding C is impossible is wrong . Now in Star Wars the say "make the jump to light speed" or hyperspace, they don't say accelerate to light speed. So in jumping to a speed or spacial dimension that we have no understanding of what we think we know goes out the window.
    Now for my explanation of the parsec thing,
    My memory of the line about flying into a star has more to do with the exit from hyperspace than the journey through it, hyperspace being a matterless dimension flying through a star would be no issue except that the gravity well would be a bit dangerous like a large puddle of water on the road hit it just right and you could spin off to nowhere. Or it could collapse the hyperdrive dropping you back into normal space, not a pleasant prospect if you aren't all the way through. So if there is no matter but only gravity a faster ship would be less influenced by the puddles, but aside from there being no matter what other benefit is there to hyperspace? Normal space is supposed to be curved so you maybe able to travel in a straighter line, now due to this you may have to exit hyperspace to correct your course you may do this once a parsec so exiting H space correcting course and reentering H space takes time and the greater the error the more jumps you have to do, so doing the kessel run in under twelve parsecs means that it was done with less error so less distance travelled and less jumps so much faster than a standard vessel. Now as for time H space may have a different time flow than normal space and because the ship would have to generate a containment field to enable matter to exist in a matterless dimension time within the ship would be uneffected or even slowed to some extent but the ship may actually be traveling back in time as it is going faster than light but each time it returns to normal space it returns to normal time so the more time it spends in normal space the longer a journey will take. So if it takes the millennium falcon three minutes to calculate a course and jump to hyperspace the entire journey could have taken less than thirty six minutes.

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  5. On a side note Einstein said that to achieve light speed would require a very large amount of energy to accelerate a very small amount of mass if used in a manner similar to a rocket. but in hyperspace where there is no matter there must be energy. So a ship need not apply thrust to accelerate past light speed it need only create a differential between the ship and the environment like the burners in a hot air balloon heat the air in the balloon creating density the hyperspace engines may create and energy differential, it may even be as simple as putting the equivalent of the south pole of a magnet out the back of the ship and the north out the front and space shoves the ship away. I can not imagine that there would be any limit to the speed achievable under such circumstances however the more powerful the engine the faster the effect would exponentiate!

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  6. The fundamental flaw in your theories, is your misinterpretation of the original dialogue.
    Han seems surprised that he's never heard of the Falcon, as though it has some massive claim to fame. Obi asks 'should I?" as if prompting him to reveal the ship's claim to fame. Cue the line about parsecs. It's purely a statement about the reason why the ship is famous, not a statement of speed. The statements of speed then follow (outrun cruisers, etc).

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