🚀 go-pugleaf

sukenick@ccnysci.UUCP (SYG) writes:
|If you're the thing which is accelerating, everything is
|wonderful, as long as you have the reaction mass, you'll
|continue to accelerate.

Indeed, if you set out for a star say 15 light years away,
and apply a large amount of acceleration, you could get
there in much less than 15 years, .. subjectively.  So if
you don't care about the rest of the universe, you could
say that the speed of light is no barrier at all.  To
state it a different way from that of relativity, there is
no limit to the speed with which one can travel.  However,
as a side effect, the faster one goes, the faster one
travels through time as well as space.

So there you go: FTL.  Wheee.

					Reid

"We've no intention of having any innocent bystanders
 killed this time, so just come along quietly, all right?"
-- 
Reid Ellis, geaclib!rae@geac.uucp, rae@geaclib.uucp [if you're lucky]