Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kitty.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!kitty!peter From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) Newsgroups: net.arch,net.micro,net.bizarre Subject: Re: Re: This is serious! Message-ID: <287@kitty.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 13:06:30 EDT Article-I.D.: kitty.287 Posted: Fri Aug 9 13:06:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 02:47:17 EDT References: <2264@amdcad.UUCP> <1350@uwmacc.UUCP> <202@calma.uucp> Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY Lines: 10 Xref: watmath net.arch:1659 net.micro:11371 net.bizarre:318 > This area of research brought to mind another potential problem. Let's say > that NASA comes up with a spacecraft which can travel at or near the speed of > light. Do its on-board computers get slower and slower as the magical velocity Reminds me of some of my weirder brainstorms, like a substance made of a crystal of charged black holes (charge opposed gravity). Won't work, of course, unless they're black-hole monopoles (:->). But boy talk about a rigid structure! Also you could dope it with bigger holes & make a hell of an optical computer... run real slo, though, because of the time dilation near the event horizons.