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Re: 3D Viewport for Stars!

Fri, 08 June 2007 09:07

jabbawocky

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Neo the White wrote on Sun, 31 December 2006 04:21

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Seems you are not excluded. Wink You forget "the time stops at light speed" thing. So since time slows down in ship it makes its "constant" acceleration weaker and weaker for external observer.

It is impossible that something accelerates itself to light speed ... instead you may "create" something that is initially faster than light (useful for communication or energy transfer) but that is whole different story.

I think this physics is rather funny thing and very irrealistic. First time as a measurable unit exists only as an artificial thing measured and created my man.

If a ship would move faster than light then if it can adjust its over-light speed from 1x times to 5x times then the acceleration effect would equally vary for traveller and outside observer.

the time is but an artificial factor just like meter or yard is not a universal factor.
neither is the speed of light an universal factor. It can travel faster and slower depening on space dust and gases or not.

Sorry about this, I know its a bit off topic but I'm doing an extended physics major at uni and I love it! Anyway, there have been some interesting theories//experiments on the speed of light recently which suggest that the speed of light itself is not constant in a vacuum at all. That it varies about 300m/s in different directions. Also I will have to agree with time, as a measured unit, existing purely as a perception of mankind- it is just an easier way of describing the difference between two different events occuring in the same spatial coordinates but at different temporal coordinates. Oh this stuff does my head in after a while... Confused

Either way, it is physically possible to travel at 2.7 times the speed of light through the glorious method of quantum tunnelling. Granted it is HIGHLY unlikely to work for any amount of matter (considering the compton wavelength of proton is in the realms of a 1.321x10-15 metres) but that doesn't mean that it is impossible (just highly HIGHLY unlikely). Also there have been some CRAZY (ie; pseudoscientific) theories, involving exotic matter, about FTL drives which, instead of bothering to accelerate matter, accelerates a 'bubble of space', thus avoiding the inconvenient increase in mass and time dilation effects (because matter isn't being accelerated, just the space in which the matter is located. Mathematically it is sound, until you attempt to STOP the device. Can anyone say spontaneous blackhole generation? Very Happy

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