Hi all, you guys are some seriously sharp tacks!
Thanks for all the answers and postulations, I can understand about 10% of your answers as I am only an enthusiast and haven't studied physics since school but I think Yuiop's answer was what I was expecting, an almost cartoonlike slowing...
Hey all, thanks for the reply. The main point of my question was really wondering about the logistics of communication between a stationary object on Earth and an object traveling near the SOL and how each crew would see and hear the transmissions of the other (as their perceptions of time would...
Hello, I'm new here and not too bright so go easy please..
My question is something that has bugged me for years;
The setup -
A light speed (or nearly light speed) craft is orbiting Earth or at least circum-navigating it at a distance and at speeds close to the SOL.
A cable runs from the...