Mach speeds over long distances.
To my knowledge the fastest travel we have reached is the Avangard missile which can travel at mach 27. I have had discussions with Chat GPT about what would happen to something if it was traveling at mach 27 and had to make a turn at 8” per mile squared. I was told it would destroy the traveling missile. Then when I frame it in terms of globe curvature correction it changes it answer.
Why would Chat change it's answer?
Is it possible for a missile traveling at mach 27 beginning at a max height of 100 km descending to its target over a globe with a range of 10,000 km to not be destroyed by "g-forces" of the arc of travel while traveling at that speed? Or is it only possible when such a missile travels at this speed on a flat and level plane?
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Chat GPT would change it's answer because it's programmed to give certain answers .. the problem is some of it's programming is in contradiction with other parts of it's programming because those parts are lies.
Modus Tollens
I did some follow up questions, GPT says the maximum g's this rocket can withstand is roughly around 40-50 in short instances, but in sustained maneuvers it's moreso 20-30 g's. I tried to get it to calculate how many g's this rocket would experience at mach 27 while nosing down at a rate of 8 inches per mile ² and it gave me the figure 1.37 million g's. I'm not mathematically inclined enough to validate this, but it isn't changing its answer and says that hypersonic missiles typically follow nearly straight trajectories*, that even slight deviations at that speed would create immense forces.
If only we had a surface that's dropping 8 inches per mile squared to test this on..