Galan007
|Quantum Observer|
Originally posted by Mindset
Wouldn't an increase of mass would mean there should be an increase in the amount of fuel.
Providing the ship itself could handle these stressors, then theoretically, yes. However, this is one of those volume and mass questions.
As you know, mass is the quantity of matter that a body possesses as normally measured by its inertia (gravity has no bearing here.) Volume, on the other hand, is the space occupied as normally measured by cubic units. (ie. volume is the amount of room something takes up - mass is the amount of matter in that something.)
The key factor here is that usually an increase in mass denotes an increase in volume (ie. if you pressurize certain gases, their mass will drastically increase - but so will the volume of space said gas occupies.) Thus, the ship would have to, in some way, allow for nigh-infinite changes such as the above. Variables as simple as those are why we (the human race) can't perceive any solid mass moving at c.
The d=m/v equation would also be helpful to this question. If you don't know the density of a substance, then knowing the volume tells you nothing about the mass, and vice versa.
Of course, all of the above is my speaking from a perspective untainted by the speed force. 🙂