lfuller is right.
For example, if you have a ship capable of continuous acceleration at 1g, you can reach any point in the universe on the order of ~50 years.
For example, if you have a ship capable of continuous acceleration at 1g, you can reach any point in the universe on the order of ~50 years.
it would take a year to get to the speed of light at 1g (if my equation was right.) Then you can't speed up anymore.
It isn't. Wolfram Alpha apparently doesn't know about the relativistic rocket equation. Try here:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.h...
Generally when we talk about an object's acceleration, we are talking about its acceleration in its own reference frame. By definition, an object's velocity in its own reference frame is always 0, so acceleration does not become more difficult (ignoring the fact that the surrounding matter will be impacting you at higher speeds). From the perspective of an outside observer who is not accelerating, time would appear to slow down on the accelerating object, and the outside observer would record a decreasing acceleration.
Jokes aside, there's no fuel source we know of that would allow a ship to accelerate continuously for 50 years at 1g.
2) Even though you don't observe yourself moving at increasing speeds, you do observe the rest of the universe moving at increasing speeds. This means that small particles impacting your ship will hit it with increasing energy.
After two years: 89.9%
After four years: 97.2%
After eight years: 99.3%