[King Prout]

I'm not kidding, dammit!
:)

seriously, this kinda stuff confuses me.
if an object accelerates away from Earth, to us it sure looks like it is going faster... but from the appropriate outside reference it would appear to be slowing down.

from its own reference, it would notice the acceleration, but once the thrust ceased it would appear to be motonless while the rest of creation staggers past.

this kinda stuff nuts me out.

[WildTurkey]

from its own reference, it would notice the acceleration,

Ah, now we are moving from the Special Theory of Relativity to the General Theory of Relativity ...

[WildTurkey]

from its own reference, it would notice the acceleration, but once the thrust ceased it would appear to be motonless while the rest of creation staggers past.

When some one is in an accident they say they were thrown into the windshield. That is actually the GT inertial frame of reference view (The car is slowing down but and accelerating (non-inertial) frame of reference). From the persons view (inertial frame of reference) it would be more appropriate to say that the windshield flew against the person.

Seems that the layman is way ahead on this one as Eienstien had to introduce non-inertial frames of reference to explain the GT of relativity, acceleration and gravity.