The Micro Universe Theory.

[Yogi]

Take this as seriously as you like.

While I have read through the complex Star Wars calculations on stardestroyer.net, there are a couple point that still remain unresolved. They are as follows.

1) In the movies, people frequently refer to “light speed.” This is MUCH slower than any hyperdrive calcs that have been presented.

2) The Millennium falcon traveling inter-planetary systems without hyperdrive

3) The fact that there is no noticeable Doppler effect for the sound of the various fighters flying around in space.

4) The use of Mechs, which have been repeatedly proven to be inferior to other types of vehicles (ask MKSheppard why)

5) The Force, which defies science in every way.

After considering this phemomenon for some time, I have came up with a solution that explains all of the above. The Star Wars galaxy is only 1/50,000,000 “normal” size. Everything is shrunken down to match this. The 1/50,000,000 figure is derived from the hyperdrive calculations on http://stardestroyer.net/Empire/index.html which pegged hyperdeive at 50 million times light speed. Of course, since they were really moving at light speed, then everything must be 50 million times smaller! This solves the above problems.

1) People were traveling at light speed all the time. The distance just seems longer but everything is just really small.

2) Even with sub-light speed, at such low distances, interplanetaty travel becomes cumbersome, but not impossible.

3) The fighters would be flying at much lower than the speed of sound, so no Doppler effect will be observed.

4) The square-cube ratio, the main reason mechs are impractical, would not be an issue at small distances.

5) At the extremely small (quantum) level, things impossible in comventional physics (conservation of matter, energy, momentum etc. might not apply)

Some people may object to this statement, citing the various SI units that were used throughout Star Wars. The truth of the matter is, all those units are essentially arbitrary units named by us, and can be changed to be whatever the writer desires. However, the speed of light is the only non-arbitrary unit of measurement that can NOT be changed. Hence, it is the only thing that we have to base our measurements on.

This proves that the Star Wars universe is much smaller than the Star Trek universe, and that 5+4R tr3k n0w 0phF1cI4llY 0Wn5 $+Ar W4rS. +4Ke 1t!! T4Ke 1+ 4nD L1K3 I+ h@h4h4h4 ROpHl lOl!!!!

*Ahem* Sorry about that.

/me dons Asbestos suit.

Flame away!

[Frank Hipper]

Errr, you can observe the Doppler effect by listening to cars as they go by on the road, what makes you think something has to be supersonic to notice it?

[Brother-Captain Gaius]

Haha. That was good.

[NecronLord]

4) The use of Mechs, which have been repeatedly proven to be inferior to other types of vehicles (ask MKSheppard why)


Gah! AT-ATs and AT-MTs are excusable, just. Also we see what happens to mecha in SW (Towcables)

[Eleas]

Flame away!

All right. This is old hat.

The SW galaxy is stated to be 120 000 light years across. And, if the distances were as tiny as you wanted them to be, the whole pseudogalaxy would become a star or black hole in short order.

I know it was a joke, but it's not funny if you've seen it before... particularly when you've seen people honestly believing it.

[Ted C]

I can put this April Fool's joke to bed with one observation.

At the described scales, gravity doesn't work. The force would be reduced by a factor of 1.25E+23. Stars wouldn't fuse, planets wouldn't orbit, people couldn't walk... nothing works.

[Ender]

Aprils fools joke or not, that was so fucking stupid I wish we had ignore lists.

[Slartibartfast]

Remember that this was a LONG time ago, about 6,000 years ago when God was just creating the skies and stuff. The Universe had just been created and the speed of light was a lot faster.

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

I hope this is a joke.

You see, if we scaled down everything to a microscopic level, gravity would be far weaker, planets wouldn't form into shperes, and stars wouldn't light. Also, really small stuff heats up faster, IIRC. Microscopic ships would be fried the moment they came into contatct with sunlight.

[Ghost Rider]

It better be...or this one of the worst displays of science I'v seen in the past 2 days.

[JodoForce]

This stuff was official on SD.net in April 2000. I hope DW has a cache to the pages at the time, I want to see them

[Yogi]

CuR$e$! ph01LEd 4g4In!!

And I would have gotten away with it too if it wern't for those meddling SD.net posters

[SPOOFE]

And let's not forget that Han's favorite brand of coffee, .5 Past Lightspeed ("The best part of waking up is .5 Past Lightspeed in your cup."), would be chemically unstable if kept in volumes of only 1/50,000,000 the size. And remember, the existence of the coffee is canon.

[Illuminatus Primus]

Take this as seriously as you like.

While I have read through the complex Star Wars calculations on stardestroyer.net, there are a couple point that still remain unresolved. They are as follows.

1) In the movies, people frequently refer to “light speed.” This is MUCH slower than any hyperdrive calcs that have been presented.

Colloquialism.

2) The Millennium falcon traveling inter-planetary systems without hyperdrive

And why not that Anoat is in a multiple star system with Hoth? It would be far, but not light-years, possibly just under a light-month or so. Likely they hopped to Anoat on relativistic travel.

Your theory is needlessly complex, and well...stupid.

[MKSheppard]

Take this as seriously as you like.

Flame away!

*mows down Yogi in a fiery burst of SMG fire*

[Failed Glory]

Your theory of light not travelling as fast in a 1/50,000,000 size galaxy does not apply. Read Einsteins Theory of Special Relativity. The speed of light in vacuu is regardless of size and speed of other objects. ie, if you are travelling at 0.5c, light still approaches you at 1c regardless of direction.

So regardless of the Millenium Falcon's size, if it can travel 50 million times the speed of light, it can travel that quickly as the speed of light is not a property of the size of the galaxy.

And so long as a "year" in the SW universe is comparable to ours, the size of their galaxy may be known (something like 1.2 times ours based on light years).

Nice April Fool's joke, though.

[Rye]

And let's not forget that Han's favorite brand of coffee, .5 Past Lightspeed ("The best part of waking up is .5 Past Lightspeed in your cup."), would be chemically unstable if kept in volumes of only 1/50,000,000 the size. And remember, the existence of the coffee is canon.

AHAHAHAHAH. Spoofe, that well got me that did, tickled my chuckle muscle as it were.