Relativistic Interstellar Flight And Genetics
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C. Maccone. (1990), JBIS, 43, pp.569-572
Refcode: 1990.43.569
Abstract:
The present paper was born out of the need to merge two topics
apparently unrelated, viz:
(1) tl1e theory of relativistic interstellar flight, and
(2) the stochastic processes of genetics.
Their unification is achieved by virtue of the notion of time-rescaled Brownian motion, that embodies both the time-rescaling, typical of relativity, and the Brownian motion, typical of
the stochastic processes of genetics. Though the mathematics involved is not difficult, to set out the calculations in detail would require too much space. Thus, the main lines of thought only have been highlighted. The rationale behind the paper is that the huge time differences between the crew of a relativistic spacecraft and people on Earth are not as ‘unbelievable’ as they seem, inasmuch as the biological laws of genetics are mathematically proved to hold good exactly the same for both.
