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I believe this is pretty impractical, the required velocity was relativistic and created too much tension for any plausible material.
by sliken 8y ago
I believe this is pretty impractical, the required velocity was relativistic and created too much tension for any plausible material.
- ColinWright 8y agoFor reference, using the Earth as a measure, we are about 150 x 10^9 metres from the Sun, acceleration due to gravity is about 10 m/s^2, and a=v^2/R. So the speed required is about sqrt( 10 x 150 x 10^9 ) which is about 1.22 x 10^6 m/s. Light speed is about 3 x 10^8, so this is about 0.4% of c. So yes, we're coming into the realm of relativity.