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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t think living things would respond well to the g forces.


4 posted on 07/21/2023 7:04:00 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

G-forces are the result of inertia. The only way craft could achieve FTL would be to relieve themselves of inertia, which no one on Earth knows how to do.


6 posted on 07/21/2023 7:06:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: gundog

Accelerating at 32fps per second is 1g. Just do that until you surpass the velocity of C.


33 posted on 07/21/2023 7:47:52 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: gundog
I don’t think living things would respond well to the g forces.

If you accelerate the ship and let it push on the occupants, that would be true. If you accelerate the entire mass, it wouldn't.

77 posted on 07/22/2023 5:20:04 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: gundog

I don’t really know much about math or physics either. But I definitely subscribe to the possibility of FTL. Just have to change your way of looking at the problem. It’s not a matter of how fast you’re getting to where you’re going from where you’re at. Because that would involve G forces. It’s more a matter of changing where you’re going, to where you’re at. Einsteins idea that “matter tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matter how to move”. Just need to untangle that and we’ll be good to go!

Fold space to travel... Such a Frank Herbert Idea. Have fun storming the castle!


89 posted on 07/22/2023 7:16:25 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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