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From: ins_bbdg@jhunix.UUCP (Bruce Dani Goldstein)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Re: distance and velocity
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Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 11:39:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 11:39:15 1985
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> 
> 	In article <641@cadomin.UUCP> andrew@cadomin.UUCP (Andrew Folkins)
> writes:
> > If I remember correctly, the transit time was 300 years.  The Andromeda galaxy
> > is about 2,000,000 light years away, giving an average speed of about 6660c.
> 
> 	One cannot just plug these values into the Newtonian equation:
> x = 1/2at^2 + vt + x0 when dealing with values of v -> c.  I inferred
> that the 300 years was the subjective time for the crew so this amount
> of time cannot be used in the above equation.  Who knows how long the
> trip would appear to an observer on Earth.  Regardless, this is a moot
> topic since there aren't any equations for warp mathematics.
> 
> Joe Barone,	{allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5}!rayssd!m1b
> Raytheon Co,	Submarine Signal Div., Box 330, Portsmouth, RI  02871

Although I agree with the fact that as v -> c, subjective time for
observers would not be the same as that for the crew, we have no 
mathematics relating the relative perception of time when v > c.  
Therefore, one could conceive of the possibility that the 300 years 
mentioned could be the same for the crew as well as for Star Fleet.

              --Bruce@jhunix
"I'm a doctor not a scriptwriter!"