(urth) Problematic element in chronology

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

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.
>
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> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes