If We Could Actually Do Time Warp

[Spacescifi]

 

Most who play kerbal know of the time warp feature. The one where what really takes weeks or months of space travel only is experienced as mere seconds by the player.

I was curious of how dangerous or safe this could be in practice in reality.

Dangerous: Turn up the time warp to light speed rates and you may have problems. Since you will experience a lightsecond of coasting in space with no abilty to dodge anything. Turn up the time warp to FTL travel rates and it only becomes worse.

Data collection is curious. I suspect sensors will be flooded with data and will be unreadable since the ship will receiving loads of data every second of high time warp.

Cool aspects: You can travel a lot of places now with limited propellant now, just realize home won't be the way you left it if you turn the time warp up too high or decide to.... crazily go interstellar... which is NOT recommended. Since chances of death by collision in the Oort cloud are credible. Not to mention you are on like a time machine with no reset button.

 

What do you think?

EDIT: I don't intend this as the main form of space travel in my SF. Rather it is just an older tech they still have before they discovered modern  shortspace(hyperspace).... another realm where the distances of normal space are extremely compressed.

Edited August 28, 2020 by Spacescifi

[mikegarrison]

Doing the Time Warp is easy. It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right. With your hands on your hips, you bring your knees in tight. (But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane.)

 

[DerekL1963]

1 hour ago, mikegarrison said:

Doing the Time Warp is easy. It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right. With your hands on your hips, you bring your knees in tight. (But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane.)

Came here mostly to see if that had been posted, and post it if it hadn't.  +1

[tater]

Came to post the time warp video, lol. Already done.

[tater]

4 hours ago, DerekL1963 said:

Came here mostly to see if that had been posted, and post it if it hadn't.  +1

I can tell we are all of a certain age...

I had a GF that was really into this, loads of midnight movies...

(she'd dress more late movie (yip!), luckily I could pass for early movie Brad)

 

Edited August 29, 2020 by tater

[Shpaget]

13 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

 Since chances of death by collision in the Oort cloud are credible. 

Oort cloud is just slightly less empty than the rest of the Universe.

[kerbiloid]

If actually exists at all.

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If we could into time warp, we would be every day missing railway stations and bus stops.

And eat burnt food with cold coffee.

Edited August 29, 2020 by kerbiloid

[KSK]

Time to break the forum filter. Everyone sing along now.

”I’m just a sweet...“

[magnemoe]

RL time warp is called sleep. 
And for probes well they tend to be in sleep mode too, unless they can do something useful, they also don't have much of an staff during sleep mode. 
New horizon is nice for parallax measurement of stars as its more than 40 AU from the sun.

[Gargamel]

On 8/30/2020 at 5:38 PM, KSK said:

Time to break the forum filter. Everyone sing along now.

”I’m just a sweet...“

No no no no no no........ 

 

[SOXBLOX]

If we could actually do time warp, we wouldn't be able to tell. If you increase the rate of the flow of time across the universe, then the only observer who could tell the rate had changed would be one outside the universe. We would all eat a bowl of cereal or read at the same rate relative to our surroundings as before. To see the change, you need a universal standard which is not affected by the time warp, the way you exist outside your computer. I say outside the universe because anything inside will experience the same compression, the way a ruler would still read 100 cm even if you shrunk it and the rest of the universe by the same scale factor.