d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell) (10/28/89)
From: Bertil Jonell <d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se> Well, Here I stand with my foot in my mouth! I made two errors in my Re:Particle Gun: The first is that the acceleration on the tank is given *not* in gees but in m/s^2, The correct value in gees is around 350 000 gees, still fatal. The second is that I forgot Einstein: When working with so high speeds as 0.7c relativity comes into play and the mass of the pellet will *increase* from 0.1gram to 0.14grams, the energy required will increase to 3.08 TJ and the effect required will be even more astronomical. -bertil- -- Bertil K K Jonell @ Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg NET: d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se VOICE: +46 31 723971 / +46 300 61004 "Don`t worry,I`ve got Pilot-7" SNAILMAIL: Box 154,S-43900 Onsala,SWEDEN (Famous last words) "There's Medellin. Drugs 'R Us, all in that one little city in the valley. One nuke could settle things..." Tom Clancy 'Clear and Present Danger'