Re: special relativity: accelerated frames

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, John Mallinckrodt wrote:

> ... in a relativistic universe--which naively appears to
> impose a "speed limit"--we could easily--and, more importantly,
> *comfortably*--explore essentially the entire universe.

I should have taken this point one step further:

It is, in fact, somewhat remarkable to find that the value of the
gravitational field on Earth in concert with the average longevity
of a human being leads to plausible maximum exploration distances
on the order of the size of the universe.  Anthropic principle
anyone?

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm