Re: Operational scale

Thomas Anderson wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Donald Hosford wrote:
>
> > Laserlight wrote:
> >
> > >	Starting from rest, 1 gee acceleration for 24 hours yields a
distance
> > > traveled of 0.25 AU, pretty close--assuming I used the right
formula (d=1/2
> > > a t^2 ), setting 1gee at 10m/sec^2; and assuming my arithmetic is
right.
> > >
> > > (I haven't worked out when you get to relativistic speeds).
> >
> > I figured it out on a computer a long time ago. (back when they were
only 8
> > bit...)
> > At 1 gee acceleration, it takes something like 340 earth days to
reach light
> > speed.  I have forgotten how far you would travel by the time you
reached light
> > speed.
>
> <kof kof> "reach light speed"? if you're using a relativistic system,
you
> can't reach light speed. that, i believe, is the point. i guess you
mean
> "reach 99% light speed", or something.
>
> Tom

My simple minded 8-bit computer didn't know that...besides I was
curious.
So 99% or so would be about 337 days.  (to be sure, I would have to
write a new
program to figure it out.)

Donald Hosford