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From: seshadri@t12tst.UUCP (Raghavan Seshadri)
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Subject: Re: StarDate: August 7 Star Travel
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 19:39:47 EDT
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> 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