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What will be the economical cost to have your ex-wife (or husband) having one year more than you do? If you where the same age...

 

Im beginning calculation right mow, it may take some time :)

The VASIMR Rocket: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Specific_Impulse_Magnetoplasma_Rocket)

Results presented in January 2011 confirmed that the design point for optimal efficiency on the VX-200 is 50 km/s exhaust velocity, or an Isp of 5000 s

VASIMR_test.jpg

VASIMR_system.jpg

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For now Im taking the relativistic equation: image.png.5c9bc43250bd71635fd02cca371a5d0a.png As a basis for calculation.

This equation come from: 

image.thumb.png.e8b4eac6f2d02b3bc12955726c27dd4c.png

In the frame in which the clock is at rest (diagram on the left), the light pulse traces out a path of length 2L and the period of the clock is 2L divided by the speed of light:

image.png.6ffeb0296ec2e80181be7acd0ae7446f.png 

From the frame of reference of a moving observer traveling at the speed v relative to the resting frame of the clock (diagram at right), the light pulse is seen as tracing out a longer, angled path. Keeping the speed of light constant for all inertial observers, requires a lengthening of the period of this clock from the moving observer's perspective. That is to say, in a frame moving relative to the local clock, this clock will appear to be running more slowly. Straightforward application of the Pythagorean theorem leads to the well-known prediction of special relativity:

The total time for the light pulse to trace its path is given by

image.png.e93af4c02037905e7a074f370740373e.png

The length of the half path can be calculated as a function of known quantities as

image.png.ae259e997028c2aa296db9cc6cc78dc4.png

Elimination of the variables D and L from these three equations results in the relativistic equation first mentioned. 

 

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The rocket equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation

image.png.90bab7029c1eca8eebc803e0812813ed.png

where: image.png.1fcb2793b60b06c724c024fc312a231c.png g0 = 9.8 m/s² and Isp = 5000 second, first assumption for the VASIMR

m0 = Initial mass and mf = final mass

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With a spacecraft of 13 500 kg with food and water, and a engine of mass 3000 kg: we could in theory achieve 1 second every 2 years, so 1 minute is achievable in lifetime :(

Just now, swansont said:

What does the rocket have to do with the relativity derivation?

Its to put relativity in context, in a funny learning experience.

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15 minutes ago, MaximThibodeau said:

 Its to put relativity in context, in a funny learning experience.

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2 minutes ago, swansont said:

This is a place to have discussions and ask questions. It's not a blog.

 Let have a discussion, how to improve this concept, by increasing the results ?

 

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