Son of Worf

So ive been hooked onto Star trek DS9 lately. DS9's plotlines are much more complex than voyager or enterprise. Actually, I think the acting in DS9 is really first rate because its more about the characters carrying the storyline rather than the exploration of space.
Anyways... very few things will make me cry.. the scene in glory where all the white soldiers cheer the black soldiers on, the scene in "Soldier" where kurt russell is told to leave the encampment.

There is one scene where Worf allows Alexander to join the "House of Martok". First some background, Klingons believe in honor, and family tradition. Basically who your father was will also determines who you are as well. Because of this, most klingons introduce themselves as "Martok, son of someone". In the beginning of the episode, Alexander calls himself Alexander Rozhenko. Eventually in the episode, he accepts that worf is his father, and that worf also accepts him as his son. Finally, he calls himself Alexander, son of Worf and no longer Alexander Rozhenko. I guess the whole redemption story was played out really strong.

Relativistic Mass

When I get bored, I will look up random facts on the internet especially on wikipedia. My random fact for this week is about faster than light travel. The reason for my interested in FTL (faster than light) travel is that recently, I've been watching Star Trek DS9. Ive watched pretty much most of TNG, and Voyager. Some story lines in voyager and TNG were really good, but I never got into DS9. However, after seeing the Defiant blast through a Dominion ship, I became instantly hooked. I think the show really suffered in the beginning but only got better after the 4-5th season.

Anyways back to the faster than light travel. I think most people understand the problems with faster than light travel, i.e. infinite mass, time paradox etc etc..

I never took relativity and never took anything beyond physics AP. So my understanding maybe very rudimentary as supposed to a physics professor. Anyways, Ive found a formula to help explain the infinite mass...

This is quoted from Wikipedia...
"As v increases toward the speed of light c, the denominator of the right side approaches zero, and consequently γ approaches infinity. The relativistic mass M is then formulated as:

where m is the rest mass."

So for a given as v gets really close to c, the denominator gets very very small, and therefore eventually the "Relativistic" Mass of the object gets very very big. Notice that when v is equal to c that the relativistic mass is infinite. However, in order to get there you need to accelerate v, and as you accelerate v, the mass of the object becomes infinite, and then becomes harder and harder to push.

Anyways, my other thought was.. if this was true, couldn't we develop artificial gravity fields just by accelerating mass to very fast speeds i.e. small particle accelerators with superconducting fields? Also, this seems very strangely similiar to the movement of electrons causing magnetic fields.

I can see how this can be related to unified field theory, but im sure some physicist has looked at this already.

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