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In article <187@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> gsmith@brahms (Gene Ward Smith) writes:
>In article <590@husc6.HARVARD.EDU> hadeishi@husc4 (mitsuharu hadeishi) writes:
>
>>for example, after accelerating for 1 year at 1 gravity you can approach
>>the speed of light to well within 1% (as measured from Earth.)
>
>  According to my quick calculation, g = 1.0325 ly/year^2, and so after
>one year at one g, one is going tanh(1.0325) = .775c.

When one hits a velocity of sqrt(.5) =~ .7071c then the Lorentz equation
gives a dilation of sqrt(2)=1.414, so the "ground made good" as seen by
someone in the spaceship is exactly 1.00c.

Now .7071 isn't .775 to within a percent, but perhaps this is what was meant.

    /Alan Paeth