Timeline for The Lost Fleet's descriptions of trajectories as 'curves' at 20% of light speed
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| S May 22, 2023 at 8:42 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | The discussion in comments here was getting pretty long, so I've moved the comments to a chatroom. Please continue the discussion there in chat. (I've deleted most of the comments from this post, but I've tried to preserve the most important ones, and all of them are preserved in the chatroom.) | |
| May 19, 2023 at 13:50 | comment | added | Ahmed Tawfik | @AcePL I'm really appreciative of your patience! I can take your explanation, but it doesn't fit with my second and third examples, where it is expected that the ships are accelerating at maximum load yet curves are used to describe trajectories across light-minutes. Additionally, ships apparently can reach .2c in minutes, which means at max acceleration the curve should completely flatten out, leaving no "long curves". | |
| May 19, 2023 at 12:45 | history | edited | AcePL | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 19, 2023 at 12:37 | history | edited | AcePL | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 19, 2023 at 12:14 | comment | added | AcePL | @AhmedTawfik After reading your edits I see the source of your confusion. My answer still stands, but amended. Let me offer you a clue: how does a starship maneuver in space? Especially when travelling at 0.2c? | |
| May 19, 2023 at 9:49 | comment | added | Ahmed Tawfik | @Hypnosifl If you haven't read the books, jump points are always on the outskirts of a system, light-hours from the star. And no, sometimes there are multiple jump points and IIRC never are they mentioned to be exactly opposite, and even if so, they won't cause 'long curves' at the speeds mentioned, but rather course corrections about the star, which typically would've been mentioned in the text. | |
| May 19, 2023 at 0:43 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Are you saying jump points are typically on directly opposite sides of the sun, so the shortest path would go through the inside of the sun? If not, just the fact that they are the same plane of the ecliptic wouldn't seem to be sufficient to conclude the shortest (geodesic) path between them would go through the sun. And while gravitational slingshots with planets may be useful for speeds of real space vehicles I doubt they would be much use for something moving at 0.2c, or shift its path to a degree noticeable by human eyes (see my comment on the OP about the tiny deflection of light by sun). | |
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| May 18, 2023 at 12:00 | history | answered | AcePL | CC BY-SA 4.0 |