Also, the ship is not going too incredibly fast, at least compared to some science fiction I have read. Definitely very much less than the speed of light. I'm putting 300-400 years as a rough estimate for the trip.
@Nabeshin Isn't that page regarding a ship that is constantly accelerating? (If...
Would carrying a LOT of compressed helium 3 or hydrogen along on the voyage to use for stopping work reasonably? (This is a generation ship, implying that it it HUGE.) The means of propulsion is a fusion drive of some sort though I'm not going to be too hard SF about that part.
@phinds Excuse me for writing that when I was tired. Sometimes people make mistakes. Though I think I will not have continuous propulsion, because the amount of energy required would be too much, which is why I proposed on and off propulsion in the first place. I think I will just have the...
I don't know how often you get questions like this here, if ever, but I was hoping you could help me solve a problem I have come across in writing a story. It is not exactly Hard Sci Fi, but it is definitely not soft science fiction, and I want to get the physics at least mostly right. Here it...