Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site t12tst.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!saber!t12tst!seshadri From: seshadri@t12tst.UUCP (Raghavan Seshadri) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: StarDate: August 7 Star Travel Message-ID: <524@t12tst.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 19:39:47 EDT Article-I.D.: t12tst.524 Posted: Wed Aug 21 19:39:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 06:35:24 EDT References: <499@utastro.UUCP> Organization: Intel Microprocessor Mfg, Santa Clara Lines: 18 > At speeds approaching the speed of light, strange physical effects > would come into play -- effects predicted seventy years ago by Albert > Einstein's special theory of relativity. You'd see the stars begin to > cluster in the direction dead ahead of your starship -- and in the > direction directly behind you. > The faster you traveled -- ever nearer to the elusive speed of light -- > the more you'd notice this forward and backward clustering of the > stars. As you got really close to light speed, the entire image of the > universe would crowd into a point directly ahead of your ship -- with > perhaps a faint spot dead astern. The point in front would be brighter > than any star you'd ever seen -- maybe a tenth as bright as the sun as > seen from Earth -- a brilliant pinpoint containing the entire > universe. Other than that, from the windows of your starship, you'd > see only utter blackness Does someone have a simple explanation for this. -- Raghu Seshadri