> It's funny for me to make my debut on this list so far off topic, 
> but
> since it's been more than a year since I last blinked my LED and I 
> kept
> lurking here mainly for the OT discussions, perhaps it's actually
> appropriate, especially as my current occupation is studying
> particle physics.

I feel relieved (and amazed) that I seem to have got so relatively 
little wrong :-) . (Not little, just relatively little. Or was that 
realtivitly little).

>> It is easy to plot classical energy of a particle (or starship or 
>> ...)

> What formula do you use for this plot? I don't think any I know has
> these minima (or else I haven't bothered to trace their behaviour 
> after
> v=c... :-)).


It's not meant to be useful or even meaningful :-)
But, it's fun.
Energy from classical velocity and mass.
Mass from rest mass and velocity using special theory.
Plot energy against velocity.
Voila!.

Takes almost no time to do - try it, you'll like it.
You'll also probably explain why it's meaningless in any useful frame 
of reference ;-) -but that would ruin a good story.



        Russell McMahon

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