On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 16:25 -0500, Eric Funk wrote: > >> I've never designed a vehicle, so I may comment may not carry any > >> weight, but if you design a ship with a Delta-Vee of 10 meters/sec > >> (i.e. 1G, as in no need for artificial gravity to the human > >> occupants) and spend half your trip accelerating 1G and the other > >> half decelerating at 1G, you can get from here to the galactic > >> center in a human lifetime AS FAR AS THE OCCUPANTS are concerned, > >> due to time dilation. > > This gets increasingly difficult as you approach c as the ship effectively > gains mass, so the ship's acceleration diminishes...
That is only from a view outside the frame. As far as the ship is concerned, its mass remains constant and so does its acceleration. I also believe that the distance traveled per internal second continues to increase without limit. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
