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Re:Relativistic Spaceship by wholinator2 on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:19PM (#39269981)
I'm interested if that's physically impossible or just currently technologically impossible
Re:Relativistic Spaceship by d_tr on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:08AM (#39272688)
The conservation of momentum means that whatever system you devise, the spaceship would have to eventually withstand the forces related to the total dP/dt required to get the obstacles out of the way...

You could change the distribution of the forces at best but I'm not sure whether that could be enough...

Re:Relativistic Spaceship by bhickey on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:01AM (#39273018)
Here's one paper on the subject. There are others, but I've run out of steam for trawling through Scholar and arXiv.

Radiation hazard of relativistic space flight https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610030