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To: Alamo-Girl
Likewise, if you traveled through space at the speed of one earth’s gravity, in 25.3 years of your voyage, 5x1010 years would elapse on earth.

Actually, gravity is more of a constant acceleration than a speed (32 feet per second per second), so at that acceleration you'd eventually reach relativistic speeds. I don't have the chops to figure that one out quickly, though.

48 posted on 11/03/2005 7:18:23 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
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To: SlowBoat407
Thank you for your reply!

The second link which is an animated explanation of special relativity from the postulates forward, steps through the specific calculation at the page titled: "the spacetime wheel"

50 posted on 11/03/2005 7:22:59 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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