What Would You See At Warp/Space Translation PT 2...

[Spacescifi]

On an earlier thread we established that if we could move space past a spaceship at FTL speeds so we did not actually have to move the ship itself, you would have to be moving space incredibly fast to see stars streak across the screen as in scifi. Much faster than 1 LY per hour which is actually above average warp for some scifi universes.

Instead you would just see the stars slowly crawl past the side view, not so much the forward view.

Main Question: I hear space is near empty but not totally. Let's assume a spaceship can move space past it at 1 LY per hour. How much hydrogen gas and dust will be hitting the ship's deflector field per second?

How would it look? Would there be enough to make it look like the ship was flying through a billowing cloud of fog through space on the view screen?

What if the deflector field ionized the gas and dust hitting it? How would that look? Since space has hydrogen in it, I presume... a billowing cloud of pink plasma would be left in the ships wake perhaps, only to later cool and no longer be visible to the naked eye.

 

Thoughts?

Edited June 25, 2023 by Spacescifi