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Re: starship-design: Re: FTL travel



Steve VanDevender writes:
 > K = m * ((1 / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2)) - 1)

Actually, for the units on that to work out right, it should be either:

K = m * c^2 * ((1 / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2)) - 1)

or

K = m * ((1 / sqrt(1 - v^2)) - 1) (where v is a fraction of c).