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Old 16-March-2004, 07:44 PM
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Default Re: question about relativity and Mars

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Originally Posted by daver
The crew of the accelerated spacecraft may feel that they were accelerating at 9.8 m/sec**2, the outside observer would see the acceleration taper off, asymptotically approaching zero as the spaceship approaches c.
So you agree with me, and you disagree with milli? To an outside observer the acceleration is constantly decaying, but to those on board it's just constant.
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