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Old 20-07-2010, 04:41 PM
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I thought I was beginning to understand this stuff until I read:

http://www.physorg.com/news163738003.html

What (I think) they're saying in this article, is that there is a situation where the train could actually have been been going for a 100 years whilst the earthbound folk, (albeit, now in orbit - so not earthbound), experience the train's trip as only one week ! (ie: the opposite of the 'classical twins' paradox).

So with a few changes to the original conditions, I think the train needs a 100 years worth of fuel (?).

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