Relative to the linked clip shown, could a Starship, moving at "multi-warp" speeds, pass directly THROUGH a sun, totally unharmed, because they would be doing so, too fast to burn up? (The sun is nothing more than burning gases, right? Nothing solid?)
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If they actually hit the gases, they would not survive. "just gases" at those speeds would be VERY solid. Think about what happens when someone jumps from a high bridge into "just water" - its like hitting pavement. Presumably, in their construct, they have some way to avoid actually having any kind of particles hit them as they move that fast. Even a speck of dust would put a nice hole in something moving that fast.
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If it passed through, it's affected. It's gonna burn. I think. (don't make me prove it) +6 Oh hell, I don't know.
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Un fortunately the premise of a sun being just gaseous is not accurate. . Suns may be formed by the accumulation of gaseous nebulae, but they are not suns until they have compacted to the point where their gravity causes fusion ( as opposed to fission ) and the release of immense energies. . Jupiter has often been referred to as an unborn sun, not quite having been able to gather enough gasses to "ignite". . Fusion is the process of combining nucleii into larger nucleii, creating new elements of the periodic table. " We are all stardust " refers to the fact that exploding novae stars have run out of fusion and can no longer support themselves by the emission of energy, so they collapse and then explode outward, spewing their high elements to the void. . The sun is actually quite dense. . In Star Trek time travel, the ship is passed close to the sun in order to accelerate to time-altering speeds. They do take great care not to get too close. Note the care with which Spock makes his calculations, and the dialogue about not hitting the sun.
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perhaps by the use of wormholes it could be possible...but until we can create one artificially the world may never know....I watch to much Stargate! but +
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