I have a spacecraft that can trave to Alpha Centauri in 1 week

Am I going to absorb 4 years of light data from Alpha Centauri or is it just going massively blueshift?

 

Haha, ya it's a completely hypothetical question of course an abrupt stop or flyby is fine. But I was kind of curious how the kinetic time dilation equation interacted between Alpha Centauri and my Space Craft. With that kind of acceleration towards Alpha Centauri, Alpha Centauri's relative velocity towards us near's negative c and effectively becomes frozen in time according to the kinetic equation, or am I doing this wrong?

This train of thought makes even more sense to me when I consider blue-shifting. Because rather than receive more photons at the same frequency, we instead receive the same amount of photons at a higher energy blue-shifted frequency.

 

// Paraphrase of last post - thought it got lost somewhere, but I'll leave both up

Hmmm, ok. I thought that as Alpha Centauri approached near negative c relative to your space crafts position that it's kinetic time dilation would be kind of almost frozen in time. Because the speed of light is constant, as we shrink our relative distance to Alpha Centauri instead of receiving more photons (although technically we would receive more by getting closer to their sun, but that's not what I mean), we simply would receive much higher energy, higher frequency, blue shifted photons.

 

Isn't it true that the voyager probe feels less force from relative accelerations now that it's in deep space than it did closer to earth? I believe I read that somewhere. This tells me that time is kind of more like constant, but the forces in nature like gravity and the energy from our sun create little time-warp-zones that bind the action within them. Or to paraphrase, lightwaves are the fluid of time.

 

Another supporting piece of science: Pulsars pulse at atomic clock precision, shouldn't there be a slight oscillation in pulse rate over the course of a year based on the rotation of the Earth depending on if we're swinging towards the star or away from the star?

 

Less centripetal and centrifugal force when completing the same maneuvers past pluto than there is nearer to Jupiter, Mars or Earth. Basically it would take more acceleration in deep space to feel "1 G force".

These are test results returned from the Voyager probe.

I don't know the numbers, but I assume it's something like 10.1m/s^2 or more acceleration to feel a G

 

K I will, just on my cellphone right now. I have to go through some NASA documentation.