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Old 16-March-2004, 08:51 AM
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Default Re: question about relativity and Mars

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Originally Posted by milli360
If we accelerate something at 9.8 m/s/s for one year, it will attain light speed near the end of the year ... [snip] ...But an object that experiences such an acceleration will not experience a constant g, because of the distortion of its spacetime [snip]
Surely this violates the Principle of Equivalence? The crew of such a spacecraft should feel precisely the same effects as the crew of a motionless spacecraft sitting in a homogeneous gravitational field of 1g - viz a constant g. No?
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