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I don’t think it’s a “warp drive”. It’s a “warp stasis” bubble or field: you’ve effectively suspended (or considerably slowed) the people inside to preserve th

I don’t think it’s a “warp drive”. It’s a “warp stasis” bubble or field: you’ve effectively suspended (or considerably slowed) the people inside to preserve them for the future — stasis. I think you’re running into objections because while it is warp technology, it’s not a drive in that it’s not providing atypical propulsion (ie, Star Trek warp drives, Star Wars hyperspace drives, Babylon 5 subspace jump drives, etc). You’re correct that we’re trying to define “warp drive”, but each of “warp” and “drive” are used independently — and your usage of “warp drive” doesn’t respect their independent usage. That you have a 1:1000 slowdown in perceived time to real time as your example suggests at some level you recognize this isn’t a drive. I think warp stasis is a super cool technology all on its own, though.

lloeki 2y ago
> it’s not a drive in that it’s not providing atypical propulsion (ie, Star Trek warp drives, AIUI in Star Trek, Cochrane's "space warp generator" and descendants are essentially the Alcubierre design: I don't seem to understand that the warp bubble provides any propulsion by itself (although grav waves could be surfed) Instead AIUI actual movement is created by a secondary mechanism, which I'm unclear about from a cursory search. Maybe impulse engines? Or maybe those are inefficient/incompatible with warp and it's using a secondary system that comes as a (intentional by design) byproduct of nacelles, like a ramjet engine airplane essentially has two propulsion systems since requires forward speed so you gotta have regular engines.
- throwaway48540 2y ago
  In Star Trek it's the warp bubble doing all the work, impulse engines are sub-FTL.