Re:Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
by ctdonath on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:03PM
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And if the universe is spherical?
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Re:Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
by somab on Saturday June 01, 2019 @10:17PM
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I think the question you are asking is what if the universe is toroidal. What if you traveled so far you came back around.
Re:Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
by badosu on Saturday June 01, 2019 @11:34PM
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You come back around on a sphere too, e.g. traveling by the equator.
Re:Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
by somab on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:35PM
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In that case you would be traveling a curved path so there would be acceleration even if your speed remained constant.
Re:Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
by badosu on Sunday June 02, 2019 @09:59PM
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Isnt a torus curved? What's the argument?
Re:Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light
by somab on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:48PM
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If you use toroidal boundary conditions then you could remain in an inertial reference frame and return back to the same pont.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_boundary_conditions