Again, are ANY of you going to help ANSWER my question about how much fuel
it would take to constantly accelerate a craft to 2 times the speed of
light? When answering my question please just assume for a moment that time
dilation, mass increase, and space warping does not occur. Imagine that it
is just as easy to accelerate past the speed of light as it is to accelerate
from 0-60 miles per second.
So how much fuel would it take? Can ANYONE answer my question?
Best Regards,
William
On 05/18/98 14:05:30 you wrote:
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>> Question for you: do you think the universe (our understanding of it) is
>> capable of maintaining a relationship (i.e. detection) with a mass
>> traveling faster than light speed? If so, how?
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>It has long been possible to accelerate particles faster than the speed of
light
>in say, water. When relativistic particles are directed into a medium such
as
>water wherein the speed of light is slower than the particles themselves,
SHOCK
>WAVES of light are actually generated. These shock waves are known as
"Cerenkov
>Radiation" (also spelled Cherenkov.).
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>I wonder if FTL travel might someday be possible by using a creative or
>left-handed approach, such as by somehow modulating the speed of light?
Also,
>can we really visualize why light is slower through water than space? In
the
>magnetically noisier environment of water are there perhaps more peaks &
valleys
>in the aether through which a wave must propagate, giving the light a
greater
>distance to travel in the same so-called space?
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>Also, I've always wondered what would happen if we were to artificially
generate
>Cerenkov radiation, but apply it in a phase conjugated manner, i.e., focus
it on
>a single particle. Or, imagine generating it naturally with one particle,
>amplifying it then phase conjugating it to converge onto a second particle.
>Might this recipient particle be accelerated beyond light speed, even if in
a
>different medium?
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>[speculation mode off]
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>-Doug Renner
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>Bill McMurtry wrote:
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>> Theoretically it would require an infinite amount of energy to accelerate
a
>> mass to the speed of light (according to relativity theory). Therefore,
>> theoretically, it would require 2 times an infinite amount of fuel to
>> accelerate a mass vehicle to twice the speed of light. Of course this
would
>> require a fuel tank at twice as big as the universe.
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