0.2 Edition Information (Relativity and FTL Travel FAQ)
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This article is from the Relativity and FTL Travel FAQ, by Jason W. Hinson jason@physicsguy.com with numerous contributions by others.
0.2 Edition Information (Relativity and FTL Travel FAQ)
This is edition 5.1 of this FAQ. A couple of subsections have been
added to the discussion of relativistic energy and momentum, and a few other
minor corrections were made over the previous edition.
As usual, (although I'm no longer calling this edition a "beta"
edition) I am sure it still contains mistakes here and there I have yet to
catch. Therefore, as always, if you see any mistakes or if you think that
any changes should be made, please let me know.
Edition 5.1 was completed on September 6, 1999. Any later modifications
involve smaller changes and/or corrections.
Here is some information about previous editions: No detailed
information was kept concerning changes in editions 1 through 3, but they
were all single-part documents concerned mainly with giving the reader a
quick introduction special relativity and explaining how FTL travel seemed
impossible because of it. They also included only one "special provision"
for getting around all the problems of relativity (that provision being the
use of a special frame of reference).
In edition 4.0b, the FAQ was split into five parts (an introduction and
four parts to the FAQ itself). In addition to one part which introduced
special relativity and another part which discussed FTL travel, two
completely new parts were added (one which looked further into special
relativity and one which introduced general relativity). In this edition,
the FAQ was also made available in an HTML version (though all diagrams and
equations were still in ASCII).
In edition 4.1b (completed September 8, 1995) I added another "special
prevision" in the FTL section.
As of edition 5.0b1 of this FAQ (completed on July 11, 1997), in
addition to a text version and an HTML version with only ASCII graphics, it
was also made available in a gif-graphics-rich HTML version and a LaTeX
version! (See Section 0.3: The Versions to learn more about these versions.)
In 5.0b1, I also made changes in various chapters (expanding some material
and moving some into new sections) to help improve explanations and
readability. In general, the basic information included has not changed, but
the FAQ was hopefully made even more understandable to its readers.
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