Posted on 02/18/2010 3:22:11 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
Star Trek fans, prepare to be disappointed. Kirk, Spock and the rest of the crew would die within a second of the USS Enterprise approaching the speed of light.
The problem lies with Einstein's special theory of relativity. It transforms the thin wisp of hydrogen gas that permeates interstellar space into an intense radiation beam that would kill humans within seconds and destroy the spacecraft's electronic instruments.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
It took 111 posts before your mentioning of Inertial Dampeners on the thread?
And throw in the particle deflector shield to block space objects. The writer appears to not know about Star Trek.
Its not ‘velocity,’ but acceleration that dilates time. Thus for an object in free fall time advances more rapidly, while for an accelerated object time passes slower.
I mentioned them in #55. And I contend that the only correct term is 'dampers,' not 'dampeners.'
That would be 10 years on board the spacecraft, ~60,000 years for the rest of us watching it go.
Kind of like the Obama Presidency
So where did this hypothesis come from?
Them’s the breaks...
Leave early?
The slow down time, if Gs remain constant, will be another 10 years. Both the acceleration and slow down phases will be less than 20 years actual to the crew, however, they will take at least 20 years their time to arrive.
Then there is the slight problem (pointed out by a 10 year old as I recall) that it will take near infinite mass of propellant to achieve light speed, since mass increases as speed increases.
So it's back to the drawing board, unless a direct wormhole system a la Stargate, or an existing mode is made available a la The Culture (were effector fields solve the unwanted energy problem) which uses ships that gain traction above and below the energy grid (Plank Space?) and travel at speeds measured in hundreds of kilolights per second.
From the article:
“Whilst the invisible effect lasted for only an extremely brief period - an estimated 40 femtoseconds”
That’s twisted
It is that but so funny! I laughed so hard it hurt the first time I saw it.
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