Well, not exactly. I am not accounting for loss of mass for propulsion. Here I am just writing down the relativistic motion with constant proper acceleration. So Alice is riding a rocket that has some kind of propulsion such that she experiences a constant force. Her acceleration is: α′ν=(0,α), where α that does not depends on proper time τ, which is a faithful parameter for the motion in all reference frame.
Let β be Alice's instantaneous velocity with respect to an observer Bob. The acceleration in Bob's frame is:
αμ=Λμνα′ν=γ(1ββ1)(0α)=(αsinhwαcoshw)where β=tanhw and w is the rapidity.
Alice's four-velocity in Bob's frame is:
Uμ=(coshwsinhw)From the definition, αμ=dUμdτ, we get w=ατ. This is the reason why rapidity is a better quantity to use to describe Alice's motion than her velocity. Integrating the four-velocity with respect to proper time to get Alice's coordinate:
xμ=∫τ0Uμ(τ′)dτ′=1α∫w0Uμ(w′)dw′=1α(sinhwcoshw−1)where we applied the initial condition that Alice started her accelerating motion at the same position as Bob. Plotting parametrically x0 and x1, one sees that the trajectory of Alice in Bob's frame asymptotically approaches a line of slope 1, reflecting the fact that Alice will get arbitrarily close to the speed of light. Indeed, the asymptote of the trajectory is the line x0=x1+1. Therefore any signal that Bob sent to Alice after x0=1 will never reach Alice because the signal will have to be superluminal. From Alice's point of view, as she accelerates away from Bob, there will be a horizon that forms behind her such that any signal from the other side can never reach her.
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