On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 19:30, Craige Cook <> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The short answer is that relativity has very little to do with Traveller
> space travel. Have a look at the logic below. You may need your calculators
> out...
>
> wrote:
>
> The energy needed for the ship to accelerate, measured in tones of thrust,
> is 10 tonnes of thrust per 1 G of acceleration per tonne of ship = 1,000
> tonnes of thrust, right?
>
> That is right.
>
No it is one to one in tons.
10 to one in Newtons.
1 ton of thrust is 10k newtons.
This is assuming the Gravity constant is 10 m/s^2
> Thus a 100 ton starship acted upon by 100 tons of force will accelerate at
> 1 m/s/s, assuming the sum of all other forces are equal to zero.
>
Your explanations is right except it is off by an order of magnitude.
--
Evyn