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Warp Drive & Transporters: How ‘Star Trek’ Technology Works
The original “Star Trek” television series featured technology
that had first appeared decades earlier in science fiction stories. Pulp heroes had been wielding ray guns, flying faster than light and teleporting from place to place since the 1930s. But perhaps the true inspiration of Star Trek’s superscience is the revolutionary physics discoveries of the early 20th century. Relativity, discovered by Albert Einstein and quantum physics, pioneered by Max Planck revealed a universe far different than ordinary human experience might suggest.
Although Einstein’s theory forbids matter to accelerate past the speed of light, the demands of sci-fi storytelling require that people be able to travel between the stars in a reasonable amount of time, usually hours, or at most, days. Enter the space warp drive
, or as it was called in “Star Trek’s” pilot episode, “hyperdrive.”
Warp drive in Star Trek works by annihilating matter (in the form of deuterium, a kind of hydrogen gas) and antimatter in a fusion reaction mediated by dilithium crystals. This produces the enormous power required to warp space-time and drive the ship faster than light.
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Can’t wait for the model, but Star Trek anti-matter engines do not use a “fusion” process, but rather an annihalation process. When an anti-matter atom (anti-deuterium in this case) and a “normal” matter atom (deuterium, also in this example) meet, they annihalate each other and release tremendous amounts of energy, as well as a cascade of sub-atomic particles.
Larry