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by lossolo 15 days ago
> If you can create a ship that is capable of 1g acceleration, it doesn't just stop accelerating as it reaches the speed of light

For any object with nonzero rest mass, reaching exactly the speed of light in vacuum would require infinite energy.

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This is incorrect. This is what an at-rest observer would perceive happening. What happens on the ship itself is very different.