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 9 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 9 months ago
mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 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 9 months ago
Yeah we solved this problem in the 50s by including a clock signal.