Recent content by jashton

Hello all, I've gotten some great help here before: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=4051091#post4051091 and I come back to you again with another question. So suppose there's a space colony, similar to Gerard O'Neill's ideas back in the 70's of ring-like tubes that...

Oh goodness! Thank you so much! Very helpful answer. Two things: 1. The ship itself is meant to be generational, so people will have kids to have kids to have kids ect so that whenever the ship were to arrive at the planet a fresh group of colonists were ready to go forth onto the planet. Since...

My novel is coming together rather rapidly, but I've left some pretty big holes in my descriptions of the setting. It takes place on a generational ship traveling from Earth to a New hypothetically hospitable planet. Essentially I would like to know the amount of time that has passed on both...