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For fun let's assume the following:
- I have a box inside which is a device that has the capability of nullifying the effects of gravity for everything in a 50' radius.
- Some smart engineers at NASA design a craft that is "spaceworthy" and has some modest, conventional propulsion system i.e. rocket thrusters.
- The anti gravity device is installed in the ship, rendering the ship immune to all gravity in the universe...
With those assumptions I have the following questions:
1. Would the modest conventional thrusters be able to accelerate a craft through space to some useful percentage of the speed of light i.e 99.99999999999999999999999%c?
2. If the spaceship were immune to all gravity, would it even collide with matter in any way or would it bounce off / slip past any matter it came in contact with?
A follow up question-
3. If one were able to accelerate a spaceship to to a very close to the speed of light by this or some other means, would the effect of time dilation cause the universe to shrink to some manageable size, say about the the size of our current solar system? (This is assuming you were able to somehow accelerate a ship to a VERY high percentage of c)
Thank you in advance for any who chose to indulge me on this. If this is the wrong place for this please just let me know.
-Rob
- I have a box inside which is a device that has the capability of nullifying the effects of gravity for everything in a 50' radius.
- Some smart engineers at NASA design a craft that is "spaceworthy" and has some modest, conventional propulsion system i.e. rocket thrusters.
- The anti gravity device is installed in the ship, rendering the ship immune to all gravity in the universe...
With those assumptions I have the following questions:
1. Would the modest conventional thrusters be able to accelerate a craft through space to some useful percentage of the speed of light i.e 99.99999999999999999999999%c?
2. If the spaceship were immune to all gravity, would it even collide with matter in any way or would it bounce off / slip past any matter it came in contact with?
A follow up question-
3. If one were able to accelerate a spaceship to to a very close to the speed of light by this or some other means, would the effect of time dilation cause the universe to shrink to some manageable size, say about the the size of our current solar system? (This is assuming you were able to somehow accelerate a ship to a VERY high percentage of c)
Thank you in advance for any who chose to indulge me on this. If this is the wrong place for this please just let me know.
-Rob