Re: starship-design: stuff

[Paul Anderson <madhobbyist@geeky1.ebtech.net>]

On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Christoph Kulmann wrote:

> 
> YES, time slows down as you approach c, and AT c it stops! 
>
Consider: You can halve 1 an inifite number of times, and NEVER reach 0.
I don't think time REALLY stops at c, I think it just gets slower and
slower, until it's proceeding at an infinitesimal rate.

NOTE: I may be full of pure BS, I'm (unfortunately) just an arm-chair
physicist, and know very little about relativity.  Please feel free to
prove me wrong and elaborate as much as you want:)  TTYL!




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