[meteorite-list] Speed-of-light question
Darren Garrison
cynapse at charter.net
Wed Aug 26 01:20:31 EDT 2009
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:56:29 -0700, you wrote:
>Which brings up a special relativity question for you all: at
>what velocity must you travel in order to reach Alpha Centauri
>(4.37 light-years away) in exactly 4.37 years -- by *your*
>reckoning of time?
Just off the top of my head, I'd say that you would have to travel under an
acceleration of roughly .716716g.
You didn't say anything about stopping when you get there...
If you had to stop at Alpha C, you would need to reach the middle of the trip,
then start decelerating, at-- oh, again a total guess, at a constant accelration
of around 1.4335g both ways.
Oh, and I've never heard of this web site:
http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/script_starship.html
So don't say I used it.
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