Re: Heinlein/Clarke Recommendations

Michael Stemper wrote:
In article <4702D5F5.4090800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sea Wasp writes:

Michael Stemper wrote:

In article <47019087.9070600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sea Wasp writes:

Wayne Throop wrote:

: mstemper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Stemper)


: No, since they travelled approximately 237 light-years. [..in 48 hours..]

Let's see now... newtonian rules that'd be 15 million g.
And ending up moving at about 86 thousand times lightspeed.
Assuming I got my arithmetic right... always a chancy thing with me.


If you (or Smith) dropped a factor of two in there, it comes out to an acceleration of ~180,000 miles per second

Sorry, but that's not an acceleration, it's a speed.

It's an acceleration as I was describing it.


No, "acceleration of ~180,000 miles per second" is meaningless.


-- i.e., one lightspeed per second of acceleration.

That would be ~180,000 miles per second per second

As I said.


No, you didn't. You said "~180,000 miles per second", which is not
the same as "~180,000 miles per second per second". The first is a
speed, the second is (the magnitude of) an acceleration.

*Shrug* I made clear exactly what I meant. And you understood it. And I enlarged upon it -- accurately -- and you, above, show that you understood it, in fact. At worst, I did not explicitly write in the "per second" in the first stage, specifically because I was drawing the parallel conclusion of what Doc was saying about "Accleration of one light".


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