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To: PatrickHenry
If it were a ship, for example, approaching lightspeed, they would soon be unable to accelerate further.

Hint: what is your on-board clock doing as you approach the SOL, WRT a clock on a "stationary" frame of reference?

(think about the answer as it would affect the fact that acceleration is the derivative of velocity WRT time)

106 posted on 02/24/2005 4:35:24 PM PST by longshadow
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To: longshadow
Hint: what is your on-board clock doing as you approach the SOL, WRT a clock on a "stationary" frame of reference?

The clock is keeping perfect time, so far as the people on the ship are concerned. But the time dilation is real, as they would learn if they could return home. Similarly, I suspect (but don't know) that their mass increase is real too.

109 posted on 02/24/2005 4:44:14 PM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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