Recent content by John Fluharty

Yep, it definitely helps. I just had a hard time finding explanations online that clicked for me. The twins example just confused me and high school physics class and calculus were nearly 30 years ago so I was quickly lost on the sites that jumped into any kind of math.

I was lacking a basic understanding of reference frames, but you all have helped. Thanks a bunch!

Yep. I was standing on my head, as Russ pointed out.

So I will observe the drone moving at 0.2C to arrive in 50 hours but the ship will observe less time passing! I think I get it!

As I said in my post, the only frame of reference I care about is that of the space station. Is the formula I used not relevant in that context? Let me ask another way to make sure I am asking my question clearly. Suppose I have 16 drone ships leaving from the same point and moving toward...

Wait, how can a trip which takes light 10 hours take the ship 5 hours? Seems like my friend is traveling at twice the speed of light!

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask this, but I am trying to do a mental exercise to understand time dilation relative to an observer's frame of reference. In my though experiment I am on a space station and someone is coming to meet me here. GST or Galactic Standard Time is always...

I really don't understand why my question did not fit but I am sorry about the mistake. I was just asking because I don't want to set a story on such a world if one is not likely to exist in the real universe and I was uncertain of the answer to the question. I do have a basic understanding of...

If I really got to go to one, I'd prefer to write it myself, since I am the only one I realty trust. :)

In other forums, the Pokémon universe seems to be a popular answer to this sort of question. My answer would be: give me a couple months to write one up and I will go there!

I started watching it on PBS in the 80s when they were showing Tom Baker episodes. I was quickly hooked on it and watched it any time I could. I was very pleased when they started it back up in '05 and still love the show.

I can't think of an instance of this in science fiction, but then I do not have the broadest knowledge of the field, so I could have missed something obvious to everyone else. I wonder, though, could a planet form at the center of mass of a binary star system or be captured there, and could...