Sunday, November 13, 2011

Without gravity and atmospheric pressures isn't there a way to have light?

A beam of light pushing on a spacecraft would accelerate the spacecraft. The spacecraft would continue to gain momentum forever. However, relativistic momentum is very nonlinear. Traveling at the speed of light, the spacecraft would have an infinite amount of momentum. Therefore, it would take an infinite amount of time for any finite beam of light to accelerate the spacecraft to the speed of light.

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