Can anyone recommend me a superluminal velocity / special relativity site that won't give me a headache?

[XMan]

I'd like to be able to calculate the time dilation effect on an object at a certain speed for a certain period of time, that sort of thing . . .

 

[Francodman]

Oh I come accross that sorta stuff everyday.

 

[Pretender]

Just trying to say superluminal velocity and special relativity is giving me a headache.

 

[dennilfloss]

Here's a useful diagram and table of time dilations:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html.

For example, one day on a ship traveling at 0.9c equals 2.29 days for an immobile observer.

Other sections at the C ship homepage might be useful.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/cship.html#cont

You might want to read sections 1.3 and 1.4 here. Just follow the example.

http://www.physics.purdue.edu/~hinson/ftl/html/FTL_part1.html#sec:timedilation

Time (Pink Floyd)

 

[KDOG]

That has to be one of the greatest breakthroughs of all time - the FTL experiment at Princeton. 300 times faster than light - man, i can't wait till they figure out a use for it...