Re: opposite of relativistic time contraction

: Ben Crowell <crowell07@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: I'm assuming they have godlike resources, so the absurdly large power
: requirements aren't necessarily an issue. The point is that it's not
: necessarily all that hard, in theory, to accelerate a piece of metal
: at 100g, but it's hard to accelerate the tender flesh of a living
: creature at 100g without squa****ng it to death. AFAIK, the only way
: to accelerate flesh at 100g without causing death is to use
: gravitational fields.

You're sure immersion in fluid, as in "The Forever War" won't work?
(I don't recall what accelerations were supposed in that book...)


Wayne Throop   throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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