Accelerating in space, where does it all end?
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Re: Accelerating in space, where does it all end?
THOSE WHO NEVER DO ANYTHING WRONG NEVER DO ANYTHING
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Re: Accelerating in space, where does it all end?
So if you could launch a Moggie into space with some kind of power source installed that would continuously cause the vehicle to accelerate at a mere 1g, ie 9.80665 m/s2 it would only take a year or so for the Moggie to near the speed of light, ie 3×10^8 ms. It would never quite reach the speed of light, but all the same, if you put "pedal to the metal" as it were, you could reach the closest supermassive black hole — Sagittarius A* at the Milky Way’s center — in about 20 years, despite the fact that it’s ~27,000 light-years away.
I think a tune up is on the books!
I think a tune up is on the books!
Re: Accelerating in space, where does it all end?
But to the earth bound observer 27,000 years would have passed
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Re: Accelerating in space, where does it all end?
Damn & blast! I never thought about that!
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Re: Accelerating in space, where does it all end?
Time dilation is a bitch
Re: Accelerating in space, where does it all end?
Oh dear I've gone and fitted that 3.9 diff nowMaurice_Minor wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:24 am So if you could launch a Moggie into space with some kind of power source installed that would continuously cause the vehicle to accelerate at a mere 1g, ie 9.80665 m/s2 it would only take a year or so for the Moggie to near the speed of light, ie 3×10^8 ms.