The Naked Time - Part 3 - Lightspeed
Episode "Wink of an Eye", TOS
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This is one of my favorite episodes in old Trek. In german the title of the episode is "Was summt denn da?", which means what is there humming? I like this title a lot, as it indicates that every time you hear something humming around (like a mosquito) it could be a visitor from another timeframe. So think twice before killing your next mosquito!
Now I learn that time itself isn't as fixed as we thought it was. If you change the spin of a photon the photon itself changes its speed! So Kirks slow travelling phaserbeam is a probability we have to think of when we start building the ship that gets us out of here. Have a look (and be prepared, because Einstein was not right):
The speed of light is not constant
If you want to read on, here's the rest of the naked time series:
The Naked Time - Introduction
The Naked Time - Part 1 - Magnetism
The Naked Time - Part 2 - Gravitation
The Naked Time - Part 4 - Time
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This is one of my favorite episodes in old Trek. In german the title of the episode is "Was summt denn da?", which means what is there humming? I like this title a lot, as it indicates that every time you hear something humming around (like a mosquito) it could be a visitor from another timeframe. So think twice before killing your next mosquito!
Now I learn that time itself isn't as fixed as we thought it was. If you change the spin of a photon the photon itself changes its speed! So Kirks slow travelling phaserbeam is a probability we have to think of when we start building the ship that gets us out of here. Have a look (and be prepared, because Einstein was not right):
The speed of light is not constant
If you want to read on, here's the rest of the naked time series:
The Naked Time - Introduction
The Naked Time - Part 1 - Magnetism
The Naked Time - Part 2 - Gravitation
The Naked Time - Part 4 - Time
