Sunday, July 1, 2012

92. How Does Warp Drive Work? A Sonneteer's Guide

I've written sonnets about quantum mechanics and chemistry and...um, other things of a sciencey nature.  I think I'll tackle warp drive.

Butterfly in the sky; I can fly twice as high...or more, because I'm in a space ship!




If you desired the starry void to cross
and used the rules of Star Trek's broad domain,
you'd use a method o'er which I'll not gloss;
in fact, I'll use these lines to it explain.

The warp drive takes as fuel the stars' exhaust:
deuterium, plus antimatter twin.
These substances are through the warp core tossed
where they collide in exothermal din.

The energies are focused through a crystal
and pass on to the nacelles- usually double-
where at a point from our ship's center distal
they generate a stable subspace bubble.

This bubble, with the ship inside just so,
exceeds the speeds that even light can go.



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