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From the perspective of the object it would keep on accelerating. It's the time dilation thing. From the perspective here on earth 1000 light years takes at least a thousand years to cover, but conceivably it could take just seconds from the perspective of the probe/spaceship.
From the perspective here on earth, the object would gain energy the same as it normally would, but it would do so by a sortof xenos paradox deal, constantly getting faster but in smaller and smaller increments, meanwhile it's mass would increase exponentially. It would also flatten in appearance, becoming increasingly two dimensional. All of this approaches zero or infinity at the same rate, a hypothetical massed object moving the speed of light would have 0 thickness, infinite mass, and experience no time until it slowed down.
From the perspective of a static reference point yes. From the perspective of the accelerating ship no (thus the name 'relativity'). The engine seems to still be working just fine, its the universe that's gone nuts (there is the issue that you'd run out of fuel long before that point).
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[–] TrivialGravitas 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
From the perspective of the object it would keep on accelerating. It's the time dilation thing. From the perspective here on earth 1000 light years takes at least a thousand years to cover, but conceivably it could take just seconds from the perspective of the probe/spaceship.
From the perspective here on earth, the object would gain energy the same as it normally would, but it would do so by a sortof xenos paradox deal, constantly getting faster but in smaller and smaller increments, meanwhile it's mass would increase exponentially. It would also flatten in appearance, becoming increasingly two dimensional. All of this approaches zero or infinity at the same rate, a hypothetical massed object moving the speed of light would have 0 thickness, infinite mass, and experience no time until it slowed down.
[–] WarNeverChanges [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Holy shit that's awesome.
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[–] TrivialGravitas 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
From the perspective of a static reference point yes. From the perspective of the accelerating ship no (thus the name 'relativity'). The engine seems to still be working just fine, its the universe that's gone nuts (there is the issue that you'd run out of fuel long before that point).