What would warp speed actually look like?

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Emily Bills for redOrbit.com – @emilygbills

You know that awesome scene in almost every sci-fi movie where the ship goes into warp speed and you see stars zooming by in streaks of light? We hate to crush all of your hopes and dreams, but warp speed isn’t possible (yet). And even if it were possible, it probably wouldn’t look like this.

Credit: LucasFilms

Instead, calculations show that if you were a passenger on the Millennium Falcon going warp speed, you would be seeing the light as a bight, central orb.

Graduate students from the University of Leicester reference the Doppler effect (which is actually the same effect that causes siren noises to get higher in pitch as they get closer) as being the cause of this phenomenon. More specifically, they claim the Doppler blue shift is responsible, as visible light moves to an observer and the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation are shortened.

Because of this shortening, the wavelength would decrease so much that light would shift out of the visible spectrum. The students claim that instead, any passengers traveling next to Chewie would see a blob of light in the form of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation left over from the Big Bang.

It’s not nearly as cool as stretched-out stars, but this is the view you might see:

Credit: University of Leicester

Further realities

It not only would look different (and by different we mean boring), but hyperspeed might be too pressurized to bear. After further research, the students found that the X-rays emitted from the stars would be so intense that it would feel like you were chilling at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

And if you were gonna use warp speed to outrun, let’s say, Imperial starships, you would need a lot of extra power and energy stored up in that bad boy to get past these forces slowing you down.

One thing’s for sure – let’s leave the warp speed to the sci-fi movies and maybe just stick to getting our butts to Mars.

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