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All right, thanks very much for your help!

0.8c is just the beginning, so to speak. The idea is that later generation ships will have higher top speeds, perhaps up to about 0.99c and above (cue, drama). I haven't really decided on how far I'll take it yet, but I'd like to follow an incremental technological development. I should add...

I suppose it does sound a bit like a homework question, but it's not, I finished school quite some time ago :) I don't actually want to give the readers all the technical details, but I'd like to know them myself. The thing is that my book will follow a technological development where the...

Hi I'm writing a science fiction novel, and I'm trying to figure out how to make an approximation on the travel time of a hypothetical spaceship traveling at relativistic speeds. Given the following: The spaceship is capable of accelerating at a constant 1G, until it reaches a top speed of...