Re: starship-design: FTL Navigation

[Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca>]

Steve VanDevender wrote:
> 
> Ben Franchuk writes:
> 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.

I have yet to hear of bulk matter being accelerated to high speeds?
The other problem is acceleration. 1 G is 10 meters/second. light speed is
3x10^9? meters/second. That is 3x10^8 seconds to get to light speed.
That is 9 1/2 years. 


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