(urth) Problematic element in chronology

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Thu Jun 2 13:10:06 PDT 2011


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: (urth) Problematic element in chronology


> Eeeeeyeah, but . The calculations below don't take dilation into
> account. I'm just sayin'.
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>> On 6/2/2011 12:38 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
>>>
>>> I made some computations (simplified) and it seems to me that indeed
>>> GW does not pay too much attention either to physics or to chronology.
>>> Very roughly,
>>> with constant acceleration of 1 m/sec^2 it is needed about 50 years to 
>>> get
>>> to relativistic speed, and the same to slow down.
>>
>> I think you are off by a factor of 5 or so.
>>
>> 300,000 km/sec is 300,000,000 m/sec
>>
>> /1 m/sec/sec is 300,000,000 sec
>>
>> /60 for 5,000,000 min
>>
>> /60 for 83,333 hr
>>
>> /24 for 3472 days
>>
>> /365.25 for 9.5 years
>>
>> As a check, the familiar factoid of 1 year at 1 g to reach lightspeed:
>>
>> 9.8 m/sec/sec round up to 10 m/sec/sec
>>
>> *60 for 600 m/sec/min
>>
>> *60 for 36,000 m/sec/hr
>>
>> *24 for 864,000 m/sec/day
>>
>> *365.25 for 315,576,000 m/sec/year
>>
>> /1000 for 315,576 km/sec/year
>>
>> c is actually a little under 300K, so this is more like lightspeed in 50
>> weeks.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
>> Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
>> < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
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