Posted by C2FThom at edutopia.mpsaz.org on March 11, 2004 at 13:27:22:
In Reply to: No, Brother Ash. posted by Barry, Suave MF on March 11, 2004 at 13:16:59:
...that according to theories of relativity, all events occuring within the spaceship, or with the ship as the main frame of reference, would occur more slowly. As you approach the speed of light, time slows down. (Like the whole Planet of the Apes thing... He was in a sort of "suspended animation" because his ship was travelling so fast.)
So if you attempted to move 3mph, you would do so only relative to the ship. Relative to the rest of the universe, your change in speed would be infinitecimal. Same with missles or bullets, even though they're outside the ship, they have been travelling along the same "timepath", if you will, as the ship. So from inside the ship's windows, you'd see some gnarly machine gun sprays, but from 100 light years away with some great optics and tracking abilities, you'd see it all go down in bullet time, Matrix style.