On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 7:57 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote:
I am confident that the world he sees before him will appear warped by his > velocity when he compares notes to other spacemen traveling at a different > clip. To compare notes, they will have to send him photons that are emitted from charged particles accelerated from pulsars and now in the TEv spectrum, so that he can detect them in the radio wave spectrum. Generations of descendants of the pilots of the near-light-speed observer that he passed will have come and gone in a nanosecond for him as he listens to Steely Dan on his tape cassette player and eats freeze dried astronaut food. His family and thousands of generations of their progeny will have passed away in a split second 6.022E23 earth years ago, while he whacks the 100Mz onboard flight computer to get the green phosphor screen to come back on. It is very interesting thought experiment. He's trying to approach an asymptote, which is always a losing proposition for practical people. Perhaps something on the planck scale is going to start getting in the way -- some fundamental constant is going to make it so that space is no longer continuous but is now big and blocky and no longer makes smooth flight possible. > The meson experiment confirms that this occurs as well if you view the > world from its point of view. Perhaps we should chew on that one next. > Can you elaborate? Eric
