Posted: 10/20/2014 12:56:44 AM EDT
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Quoted: Explain this in layman's terms please. aaaand done!
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Explain this in layman's terms please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zerok aaaand done! LOL.. No. I just read the novel, how I never did before is a mystery to me. The minute fractions of light speed I find fascinating. I thought I had a layman's grasp of time dilation but apparently not. eta: the novel led me to this question but I'm asking about the actual equation. |
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LOL.. No. I just read the novel, how I never did before is a mystery to me. The minute fractions of light speed I find fascinating. I thought I had a layman's grasp of time dilation but apparently not. eta: the novel led me to this question but I'm asking about the actual equation. Quoted:
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Explain this in layman's terms please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zerok aaaand done! LOL.. No. I just read the novel, how I never did before is a mystery to me. The minute fractions of light speed I find fascinating. I thought I had a layman's grasp of time dilation but apparently not. eta: the novel led me to this question but I'm asking about the actual equation. Click the link... Scroll down... Read... |
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Explain this in layman's terms please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zerok aaaand done! LOL.. No. I just read the novel, how I never did before is a mystery to me. The minute fractions of light speed I find fascinating. I thought I had a layman's grasp of time dilation but apparently not. eta: the novel led me to this question but I'm asking about the actual equation. Click the link... Scroll down... Read... Yes. But as the novel progresses the ships relativistic speed slices the pie in ever finer slices. And it is implied that even the smallest increments of acceleration, ever increasing, add decades, centuries to their voyage in relation to earth. I suppose my question is how does increasing relative velocity from 99.95% of c to 99.96% make a difference of decades? It seems such a small increment. |
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Quoted: Yes. But as the novel progresses the ships relativistic speed slices the pie in ever finer slices. And it is implied that even the smallest increments of acceleration, ever increasing, add decades, centuries to their voyage in relation to earth. I suppose my question is how does increasing relative velocity from 99.95% of c to 99.96% make a difference of decades? It seems such a small increment. 1/Tau is the factor time is dilated At 99.95%, T = 0.0224. At 99.96%, T = 0.020 d=0.024 At 99.97%, T = 0.0173 d=0.027 At 99.98%, T = 0.01414 d=0.0316 So you can see that the delta T increases exponentially with each hundredth of a percent increase. |
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Towards the end of the novel, when their decrease has gone on unchecked and they are effectively at light speed, their density has increased exponentially as well. I get that.
But could / would such a massive object just punch through entire galaxies in an instant? It's a fascinating little novel. |