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But the more you accelerate the spaceship, the more energy you need, with the energy diverging to infinity as your speed approaches that of light. At some point, your spaceship will become so energetic that it, too, will collapse into to a black hole.

That is simply wrong. It is called relativity for a reason. An object might be traveling arbitrarily fast, but in its reference frame it is not moving.

That pretty much invalidates that part of the article.

For curious readers: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3436/if-a-1kg-mas...

parent rhth54656 12 years ago

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