{"id":161505,"date":"2023-04-03T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/if-we-ever-reach-warp-speeds-absolute-limit-well-experience-all-time-at-all-moments"},"modified":"2023-04-03T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T03:22:18","slug":"if-we-ever-reach-warp-speeds-absolute-limit-well-experience-all-time-at-all-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/if-we-ever-reach-warp-speeds-absolute-limit-well-experience-all-time-at-all-moments","title":{"rendered":"If We Ever Reach Warp Speed\u2019s Absolute Limit, We\u2019ll Experience All Time at All Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-we-ever-reach-warp-speeds-absolute-limit-well-experience-all-time-at-all-moments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spaceship traveling at warp speed wouldn\u2019t be firing its engines to travel that fast; it\u2019s just being carried by a spacetime bubble. Then if you want to exponentially increase your speed, you build another bubble around that bubble, which in the world of Star Trek is referred to as warp factor two, and then warp factor three, Macdonald says.<\/p>\n<p>Spacetime as we know it is finite, and as such, there is a limit to the number of warp bubbles, or level of warp speed one could theoretically reach. In some shows, this is arbitrarily called warp factor 10, which is when all of spacetime is wrapped around the spaceship. At that point, \u201cyou\u2019ve broken all the laws of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/energy\/a39372219\/self-charging-infinity-train\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">infinity<\/a> and you experience all time at all moments,\u201d Macdonald says. \u201cAnd in the classic Voyager episode of <em>Star Trek<\/em>, you evolve into lizard people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spaceship traveling at warp speed wouldn\u2019t be firing its engines to travel that fast; it\u2019s just being carried by a spacetime bubble. Then if you want to exponentially increase your speed, you build another bubble around that bubble, which in the world of Star Trek is referred to as warp factor two, and then [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}