Dave,
... > ...After a modest period of time, we calculate that our super rocket engine which > uses anti matter as fuel and attached ship, has reached a calculated velocity of > 10 times the speed of light. This number is calculated by integrating the > acceleration that we can easily measure in the reference frame around our ship > that is also constantly accelerating. I think you need to go into more detail as to why your thought experiment apparently glosses over the fact that the hypothetical space ship can somehow reach a velocity 10 times the speed of light. Someone like me would first like to know why it is that your thought experiment can somehow overcome this little light barrier problem. Since you don't seem to be applying anything believable in the virtual sense, or from a science fiction POV, like a hypothetical Star Trek warp drive to justify the fantastic speed of your space ship, I'm left at a loss as to how to take your thought experiment seriously. The use of a mathematical integral equation to explain why the ship has somehow reached 10 times the speed of light is of little use here. The "barrier" I can't get past is the fact that I don't think all the anti-matter plus positive-matter annihilating each other in the entire universe could get your space ship to reach 100% the speed of light, let alone 10 times that. Are you using a warp drive???? A worm hole? Is your hypothetical experiment deliberately choosing not to consider the effects of relativity? If that really is the case you should clearly state that that was your intention. Not to do so gives me the impression that you are totally ignorant of the effects of relativity - and I can't believe that of you! ;-) Did I miss something important in your interesting thought experiment? Perhaps I did! ;-) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/newvortex/
