originally posted in:The Ashen Conflux
It would take roughly .75 seconds to get to Mars from earth at near light speed ... So it is completely believable that it would take 10-15 seconds (loading screen) to get to Saturn from Mercury
English
-
Check your maths champ. Average of 12.5 minutes at light speed.
-
Can we see your math? You need to account for both the orbits of the Earth and Mars. They do revolve around the sun at different speeds.
-
Hence why I said an average of 12.5 minutes. Someone has the numbers: https://m.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1wpvjx/when_mars_is_420_lightminutes_away_from_earth/ Also, the moon is just over a light second away.
-
That's not what I asked. I was looking for the geometric formulas found in books on Mathematical Physics. i.e. Here is 2 ellipsis showing orbit of said planet, here is formula for each, summation for time and a list of calendar dates with distance between the two.
-
Really? d = exp(2πit) – r exp(2πi (r-3/2 t))
-
Is that from the Earth to Mars or to the Sun? Is during Summer in the US or Winter? Just wondering?
-
It is an equation expressing the orbit of the earth, the orbit of Mars, and the distance between the planets at any given time (t).
-
No it's not. The fact that the orbits of Earth and Mars are not a difference by a factor of 1-a/b is my poinr. A year for Earth in a 100 year period will be different than a year for Mars during their 100 year period. Also, the orbits are not on a plane. The orbits fluctuate depending on the gravitational waves emanating from the Sun.
-
Ummm, yeah they are on a plane. The whole Solar system is. Here's a graphic display of them over time https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/nasa/searchingforlife/exploring-mars-ancient/p/distance-between-earth-and-mars Come up with a sensible question or rebuttal and I might reply
-
You sent me a link with a 2d picture. Are you serious? Draw an xyz coordinate system with the sun at (0,0,0) and set z=0 for your plane. You really think as t (time) grows, z stays 0? http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/outofwack.html key statement: "Until now the conventional wisdom has been that a big cloud of gas collapses down to form a star, and planets are a natural byproduct of leftover material that forms a disk. In our solar system, there's a fossil of that creation event because all of the eight major planets orbit in nearly the same plane. The outermost dwarf planets like Pluto are in inclined orbits, but these have been modified by Neptune's gravity and are not embedded deep inside the Sun's gravitational field." https://dps.aas.org/prizes/2011 William Ward Key work: Bill Ward is the undisputed authority in dynamical interactions between planetary embryos, gaseous and particle disks. His seminal theoretical work includes the importance of gravitational instabilities on the formation of planetesimals, the effects of sweeping secular resonances, planet migration due to interactions with the circumstellar disk, and the theory of giant planet satellite formation.