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Re: starship-design: FTL Navigation
Ben Franchuk writes:
> "Kyle R. Mcallister" wrote:
>
> > Who is we? You? I say we ask Kelly, Lee, Curtis, Ben, etc. And me. As far
> > as I know this is a democracy. As for "we" not being interested in FTL
> > speculation, speak for yourself. Maybe you're not but that does not prevent
> > us from doing so. And hell, we're sture not talking about anything else.
> >
> > Now how about some real discussion on this subject?
>
> I don't believe FTL travel is possible. I suspect that physical components will
> fail around .75C. That is the about the speed of electrons travel in wire and
> people.
How do the electrons know they're in a wire travelling at 0.75 c?
Particles (including electrons) that have been accelerated to within the
tiniest fraction of c don't behave any differently at speed than they do
at rest. Electronics (and people) on a relativistic spacecraft won't
behave any differently than they do here on Earth, at whatever speed the
spacecraft travels.