March 5th, 2004, 09:06 PM
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Re: Newtonian Propulsion Mod!
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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
If you can slow the passage of time you can by default speed it up as well. What screws me over is it says as speed increases..fine, speed relative to WHAT?
If an object is moving away from me at .3C, and I speed up to .4C to catch it, the relative speed is only .1. But speeds are ussually compared relative to the earth, which is of course moving around the sun which is moving around the galaxy, which is..you get the point.
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Relative to the observer.
Both your crew, and the people back on earth will see the other group as slowing down.
If you meet each other again, the group that experienced the acceleration of the "turning around" part will be the younger one when you meet.
*SJ reboots imagemodserver*
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