I am greatly enjoying your book. Up to page156 now.
On page 139, it seems to me that 8 hours of travel at 99.999999999% of c would correspond to 20 years, not 400, back on earth.
Cheers,
Iain
Dear Iain,
Thank you very much for your message. I believe you made a little mistake somewhere, though.
That being said, my figure is a very crude approximation. To get it right, you’d need to add a few digits behind the last 9. The correct speed for 8 hours to correspond to 400 years is 99.99999999973936% of c. To make it easier to read, I did not put the last 73936 digits… Sorry about that, I maybe should have.
All best,
Christophe
Mr. Christophe
At the beginning I would like to thank you for your fantastic book. Great job. It is great to read to me, layman. However, I would like to draw your attention to one “inaccuracy” in the text: Maria Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish scientist, not a French scientist. I would ask you to correct this so as not to mislead readers.
Best wishes
Artur
I am greatly enjoying your book. Up to page156 now.
On page 139, it seems to me that 8 hours of travel at 99.999999999% of c would correspond to 20 years, not 400, back on earth.
Cheers,
Iain
Dear Iain,
Thank you very much for your message. I believe you made a little mistake somewhere, though.
That being said, my figure is a very crude approximation. To get it right, you’d need to add a few digits behind the last 9. The correct speed for 8 hours to correspond to 400 years is 99.99999999973936% of c. To make it easier to read, I did not put the last 73936 digits… Sorry about that, I maybe should have.
All best,
Christophe
Mr. Christophe
At the beginning I would like to thank you for your fantastic book. Great job. It is great to read to me, layman. However, I would like to draw your attention to one “inaccuracy” in the text: Maria Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish scientist, not a French scientist. I would ask you to correct this so as not to mislead readers.
Best wishes
Artur
Thank you dear Artur.