I'm a Biochemistry undergrad, so I don't feel bad for not understanding it. I thought I was really smart for waking up this morning and realizing, "Woah, I wonder..." The way you described actually makes a lot more logical sense than what I was trying to describe in my own question. Glad you...
Now it all makes sense.
Thank you for correcting my error. Dang, so much for all that math. Ah well, I would rather be wrong and learn from it. Thank you for correcting this mistake of mine =)
Now I am equally confused. Let me just post my math, b/c it's certainly possible that I made a mistake.
According to my calculations, if you were traveling at 299792458 m/s, then you would arrive at Mars in 1000 seconds, space-cruiser time, or 16.6666 minutes, (the minimum time to reach Mars...
I was really bored one day, and I decided to make up this question for fun. It's actually pretty easy and I was able to solve it using nothing but high school algebra, but what makes the question interesting is just the conceptual aspect of the question:
A team of astrophysicists are stranded...