Suppose that the starship Enterprise from Star Trek has a mass of 8.0 × 107 kg, about the same as the Queen Elizabeth 2. Suppose that it was moving at half the speed of light. Read its G off of the graph in figure l on p. 76, and use this to compute its energy. Compare with the total energy content of the world’s nuclear arsenals, which is about 1021 J.
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