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<blockquote data-quote="garrowolf" data-source="post: 6607514" data-attributes="member: 31900"><p>Here's the catch to all this. There is no speed to hyperspace. Hyperspace is an alternate dimension, not a speed. Hyperspace has a compression ratio with normal space. So if you travel 1 meter in normal space then you travel only 1 meter. If you go into hyperspace and and travel one meter but that hyperspace has a compression ratio of 100:1. Then you will have traveled 100 meters when you come out. The problem is that George Lucas used a real term and then didn't show it very accurately. </p><p>If the Star Wars galaxy is the same size as our galaxy then, for the speeds of the ships that are shown it would take a compression ratio of 1X10^11:1 to accomplish that. So they are traveling at say 5% of the speed of light then that would be the same as traveling 5 billion times the speed of light. </p><p>However if Star Trek and Star Wars were in the same universe then the Star Trek ships would be able to use a hyperdrive just as well and go a lot faster! If a ship with a war drive entered hyperspace and went 100c then it would be going 7X10^13 times the speed of light!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="garrowolf, post: 6607514, member: 31900"] Here's the catch to all this. There is no speed to hyperspace. Hyperspace is an alternate dimension, not a speed. Hyperspace has a compression ratio with normal space. So if you travel 1 meter in normal space then you travel only 1 meter. If you go into hyperspace and and travel one meter but that hyperspace has a compression ratio of 100:1. Then you will have traveled 100 meters when you come out. The problem is that George Lucas used a real term and then didn't show it very accurately. If the Star Wars galaxy is the same size as our galaxy then, for the speeds of the ships that are shown it would take a compression ratio of 1X10^11:1 to accomplish that. So they are traveling at say 5% of the speed of light then that would be the same as traveling 5 billion times the speed of light. However if Star Trek and Star Wars were in the same universe then the Star Trek ships would be able to use a hyperdrive just as well and go a lot faster! If a ship with a war drive entered hyperspace and went 100c then it would be going 7X10^13 times the speed of light! [/QUOTE]
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