How do you explain it?

[Jack Simth]

Jestak said:
Greetings,

Purely scientifically, you all forgot something very important: Our dear friend Albert Einstein discovered it more than 80 years ago and it was spoken out by someone I can't remember his name.

Time flows at different pace for each system because those systems go to a different speed (i.e.: Relativity theory). In theory, a system in a galaxy moving 10 times faster than our galacy will flow 10 times slower than us (A vehicle moving at speed of light will see the people around it frozen.)

So, Sol III (us) could see 2000 years pass by while planet X in another galazy could see 1 million years pass during that same Sol III 2000 years.

It makes all those silly sci-fi movie and television show quite archaic. . Of course, Star Trek universe is all in the same Galaxy, so the time is almost all the same. But what about the galaxies at the edge of the universe that travel 2000 times faster than our galaxy? One year here is 2000 years there. Imagine the progress of the last 100 years (wireless, nuclear, etc) here are nothing compared to the progress an identical society could make in 200,000 years.

Thank you

It's not linear, but that's irrelavant; that's one perspective. Another, equally valid perspective is that time flows slowly here and faster there. It's a variation on the twin paradox. From our perspective, their clocks are slow; from their perspective, our clocks are slow.

Perhaps we are the most advanced civilization there is! All others are in different frames of reference, and, due to the "magic" of relativity, are advancing more slowly than we are in our frame! Of course, that would be equally true of all other civilizations from their frame.... Oooh... Headache....

[Aiken]

Back to WP explanations. Possibly it's an alternative universe, and warp points are an inherent part of its physics. And probably traditional (for us) interstellar travel is theoreticaly impossible there.

In perfectly explains why Aaron rejected to implement intersystem movement at speed of light in se5 - he has arrived from that universe recently (his saucer was last seen about 20 years ago) and this kind of movement is a wild nonsense for him.

[zircher]

Gamma rays are a handy mechanism for pushing that huge reset button on all local civilizations. :-)

http://www.jrmooneyham.com/ctctgam.html

You would not even need a total extinction event, just one that returned all the races to the stone age and left a few interesting ruins behind.
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TAZ

[atari_eric]

Forget about the gamma ray burster threat, worry aobut the bad webpage coloing effect!

Ow, my eyes...

[Ragnarok]

atari_eric said:
Forget about the gamma ray burster threat, worry aobut the bad webpage coloing effect!

Ow, my eyes...

You just had to say that to make me look, didn't you?! I am blinded for the rest of the day now.