On 10/15/09 4:57 PM, Jon Lang wrote:
Travis Watkins wrote:
It would also tend to normalize travel times somewhat.
Further from gravity wells = more energy for acceleration, so if
interplanetary trips spend at least 80% on bubble maintenance,
interstellar trips should be able to accelerate much more while
between systems.(this could let interstellar become somewhat
reasonable without making interplanetary insignificant, especially if
bubble maintenance is really expensive and thrust is very cheap power
wise)
I don't think that the numbers can work out properly. I've been
referring to tidal forces because they're the one measurable effect of
gravity that's unique to actual, mass-generated gravity wells and
entirely absent from acceleration-induced pseudo-gravity.
I read a paper somewhere theorizing that gravity and acceleration are
the same thing: a warping of the space-time metric. They have all of the
same effects and the weird bits about "real gravity" are caused by rotation.
In your case, does it make any difference if the acceleration is caused
by gravity or by stressing the atomic forces (ie: reaction drive)?
It isn't likely, after all, that anyone would want to engage the warp
drive while also using a 1g thrust drive.
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