Awatmath.1948
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utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton
Wed Mar 10 12:59:45 1982
Re: quasars as continous-drive starships
I disagree with the comment that after a year at 1G you are wasting your time
putting on more speed.  You may be wasting earth-time, but you are not
wasting your own dilated time.  For the ship, there is no such thing as
the "speed of light" barrier.  It is fundamental to physics that you can not
detect the asymptotic nature of acceleration the Earth observer sees.
As far as you are concerned, you go faster and faster, beyond one light
second/second as if there were no barrier.