Recent content by Morgantic

I think he's more referring to the relativistic effects of time. But sunken is completely right. I did the same except I didn't get rid of the sin because... well, you know what a test does to your logic sometimes :hammer:

So what is it? 8 years as I said previously and you flamed me for? Or is light instantaneous like the BOS assumes? Whatever it is, stop flaming my posts and be constructive by correcting them, since no-one else seems to know the truth. I also don't see how I'm violating any assumptions of...

HA! I wrote 2 pages on that question and I got attacked by my fellow physicists after the exam for writing so much.

There's more to it than that. You have to take into account that the mass will increase according due to relativity and that the velocity is increasing, so in the equation F=mv^2/r (since its centripetal), both m and v are increasing and r is remaining constant, so F is becoming mother fucking...

Oh well, at least we're in agreement on the point that light moves at the speed of light instead of at some crazy, magical, instantaneous value that the BOS seems to believe. Does anyone know someone who is a physics nerd for a living and could sort their way through this mess. I seriously...

Yeah, I realised that last night, which would mean that it would be 3.3 years on the clock, according to that set of logic at least I always assumed that if you were close to the speed of light, you would possess increased mass and that's why you can't get above 'c'. Anyway: Ship clock...

Guys... the answer is 8.77777777..... The spaceship has moved towards the speed of light, therefore undergone relativistic effects. So the time on earth is 16.77777777 when the ship arrives at this imaginary star, but because the star is 8 lightyears away from earth (0.8c x 10 years), the clock...