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I assume travelling near speed of light with conventional physics is impossible, since the ship's mass would crush itself as it increased infinitely. Warp driv
by goldfeld 14y ago
I assume travelling near speed of light with conventional physics is impossible, since the ship's mass would crush itself as it increased infinitely.
Warp drives, on the other hand, seem to work by moving space-time, not the ship. So in theory the ship is left intact, without the people inside feeling any acceleration whatsoever.
- palmtree3000 14y agoI'm fairly certain that wouldn't be an issue. Relativity means that any (let's say non-accelerating, to keep us within the context of special relativity) reference frame is just as good as another. In the spacecraft's reference frame, it's chilling out, and a bunch of stars off a ways are moving really fast, but they don't really affect it. It is an interesting problem though; I'm not really sure why it can't crush itself...
- spullara 14y agoAside from the light from stars directly in front of them that becomes hard gamma rays at high speeds.