Never mention numbers in regards to sci-fi, fantasy or comics. It will always lead to nerds deraling the conversation and debating the accuracy.
Case in point: The “Enterprise” is the name of multiple ships that have max warp capabilities ranging from ~7 or less to way above 9.9. (The warp scale is different depending on the setting, but in general it’s logarithimic with 1 basically being light speed and 10 being instant travel to the point of seeming like teleportation. So once you go past 9.9 it starts getting exponetially faster, at alarming rates.)
But that’s not logarithmic, that sounds like some kind of inverse scale with the asymptote at 10, meaning 10 can never be reached because that would mean actual infinite speed.
With a logarithmic scale, the speed is literally increasing exponentially, at every point, like getting 10 times faster for every point on the scale.
So yeah, I think you made the very mistake you tried warning people about ;D
Never mention numbers in regards to sci-fi, fantasy or comics. It will always lead to nerds deraling the conversation and debating the accuracy.
Case in point: The “Enterprise” is the name of multiple ships that have max warp capabilities ranging from ~7 or less to way above 9.9. (The warp scale is different depending on the setting, but in general it’s logarithimic with 1 basically being light speed and 10 being instant travel to the point of seeming like teleportation. So once you go past 9.9 it starts getting exponetially faster, at alarming rates.)
But that’s not logarithmic, that sounds like some kind of inverse scale with the asymptote at 10, meaning 10 can never be reached because that would mean actual infinite speed.
With a logarithmic scale, the speed is literally increasing exponentially, at every point, like getting 10 times faster for every point on the scale.
So yeah, I think you made the very mistake you tried warning people about ;D
Never forget how Scotty checked “warp 1 to 15”. That was before woke. See what they took away from us