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So recently, I asked the question as to why a verse had its Class P rating based on a black hole removed to Psychomaster35, to which he replied that the acceleration is FTL... But that's kinda the thing...
Speed is the one that can't be any finite number, as the speed of light and thus the speed cap is 299792458 m/s, which seems small at first until you actually look into relativity, which would show that it would take infinite energy for anything with a mass to reach the speed of light (and the reason light can move as fast as it does is photons DON'T have a mass). Relativity has yet to explain why the universe expands faster than the speed of light, however.
The thing is, acceleration can actually be higher than 299792458 m/s². The highest acceleration value recorded on something that can be considered an attack is recorded on a coilgun firing a 2-gram projectile. There, the acceleration is recorded at 1000000000 m/s² over 1 centimeter (Cited from this: K. McKinney and P. Mongeau, "Multiple stage pulsed induction acceleration," in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 239-242, March 1984, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.1984.1063089. ). In this case, the force of the coilgun can be calculated at 2 meganewtons and the work can be calculated at 20 kilojoules (just a bit over baseline Wall Level).
Yet, on a more sustained level, neutron stars, which are second only to black holes in terms of cosmic entities, has a surface gravity of 1*10^12 to 1*10^13 m/s², meaning the force exerted by a 1-kilogram weight on the surface of a neutron star would be 1 to 10 teranewtons. Despite this, the escape of velocity isn't FTL. The escape velocity is 140000000 m/s according to the University of Birmingham and 54% the speed of light according to a physics textbook.
There are higher values for acceleration, but those are done on a scale that's too small to see like protons in a Wakefield accelerator.
Our relativistic KE guidelines allows for KE calculations of up to 4x Newtonian KE values (which is hit at 93.02% the speed of light). A 1-kilogram weight moving this fast would have a relativistic KE of 1.555335454*10^17 joules, which is equivalent to the work applied by a force of 1.555335454*10^17 newtons applied over a distance of 1 meter.
So why is it that acceleration values higher than 299792458 m/s² aren't touched despite experimental evidence (coilguns and Wakefield accelerators) and theoretical evidence (neutron stars) of such? Is there a lack of relativistic guidelines and calculation methods regarding concepts outside of kinetic energy that I'm not aware of?
Speed is the one that can't be any finite number, as the speed of light and thus the speed cap is 299792458 m/s, which seems small at first until you actually look into relativity, which would show that it would take infinite energy for anything with a mass to reach the speed of light (and the reason light can move as fast as it does is photons DON'T have a mass). Relativity has yet to explain why the universe expands faster than the speed of light, however.
The thing is, acceleration can actually be higher than 299792458 m/s². The highest acceleration value recorded on something that can be considered an attack is recorded on a coilgun firing a 2-gram projectile. There, the acceleration is recorded at 1000000000 m/s² over 1 centimeter (Cited from this: K. McKinney and P. Mongeau, "Multiple stage pulsed induction acceleration," in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 239-242, March 1984, doi: 10.1109/TMAG.1984.1063089. ). In this case, the force of the coilgun can be calculated at 2 meganewtons and the work can be calculated at 20 kilojoules (just a bit over baseline Wall Level).
Yet, on a more sustained level, neutron stars, which are second only to black holes in terms of cosmic entities, has a surface gravity of 1*10^12 to 1*10^13 m/s², meaning the force exerted by a 1-kilogram weight on the surface of a neutron star would be 1 to 10 teranewtons. Despite this, the escape of velocity isn't FTL. The escape velocity is 140000000 m/s according to the University of Birmingham and 54% the speed of light according to a physics textbook.
There are higher values for acceleration, but those are done on a scale that's too small to see like protons in a Wakefield accelerator.
Our relativistic KE guidelines allows for KE calculations of up to 4x Newtonian KE values (which is hit at 93.02% the speed of light). A 1-kilogram weight moving this fast would have a relativistic KE of 1.555335454*10^17 joules, which is equivalent to the work applied by a force of 1.555335454*10^17 newtons applied over a distance of 1 meter.
So why is it that acceleration values higher than 299792458 m/s² aren't touched despite experimental evidence (coilguns and Wakefield accelerators) and theoretical evidence (neutron stars) of such? Is there a lack of relativistic guidelines and calculation methods regarding concepts outside of kinetic energy that I'm not aware of?
