If nothing else, you discovered a way to gloss over the impossible thing in a bad scifi movie. “No it works because we added a timing signal!”
Comment on Light-Speed Spaceships Would Have Trouble Phoning Home
Deebster@programming.dev 11 months ago
Most people have missed the bit about time dilation messing up the clocks used in signalling, which I thought was interesting as first. However, surely the fix is just as simple as including a timing signal with the transmissions?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
I think the problem is less timing the messages, and more that the messages from earth will just get redshifted more and more as the ship accelerates, which will require an ever larger antenna to pick up. This also has the affect of bandwidth tending towards 0.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yeah we solved this problem in the 50s by including a clock signal.