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		somab on June 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ways to travel at nearly the speed of light In that case you would be traveling a curved path so there would be acceleration even if your speed remained constant.

badosu on June 3, 2019 [–]

Isnt a torus curved? What's the argument?

somab on June 5, 2019 | [–]

If you use toroidal boundary conditions then you could remain in an inertial reference frame and return back to the same pont.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_boundary_conditions

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