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Old 13-May-2004, 10:30 PM
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I calculated that if a object of mass was dropped into
a hypothetical constant one g gravity field of unlimited size for >355.25 days
of 1 g acceleration it would exceed light speed regardless of the mass and
energy as Velocity=Acceleration times time without mass and energy being
in the calculation.
Starship1 isn't your first paragraph wrong? This kind of messes up all the other stuff. You can't just use the simple v=at when you approach light speed. As speed increases, mass increases so the energy needs to accelerate also increase.

Ultimately, you need an infinite amount of energy to accelerate to light speed therefore conventional acceleration of any sort cannot do it.

"v=at" only works in the slow, Newtonian world that we normally inhabit.
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