Electromagnetic waves red-shift as they rise in a gravitational field. Therefore we can think of a position within a gravitational field as being a ‘wave function’ which we can describe as being either ‘red-shifted’ (higher in the field) or ‘blue-shifted’ (lower in the field). Both John and his rocket ship fall in a gravitational field and they both continue to fall when they hit the earth (they experience gravitational pull and do not become weightless) because the density of both John and his rocket correspond to a ‘wave function’ buried somewhere below the surface of the earth.
However John’s ‘atomic wave function’ is less dense than that of his rocket, and therefore we can think of John’s wave function as being ‘red-shifted’ relative to the wave function of his rocket, while the denser rocket is ‘blue-shifted’ relative to the atomic wave function of John.
As John’s rocket ‘gains momentum’ and begins to rise into space, John feels powerful ‘G-Forces’ pushing him downward into his astronaut chair. For this reason John’s rocket must rise into space relatively slowly to avoid crushing and killing John.
There are two possible explanations for this phenomenon that come to mind.
Scenario One
Objects rise or fall in a gravitational field as a function of their atomic density. Hydrogen rises in a gravitational field because it is to dense, and thus it is displaced in the direction of decreasing density (it expands as it rises and space dilates, and its density decreases, and so the rate of displacement decreases and it decelerates at it rises. It is for this reason that a weather balloon rockets upwards at high velocity, expanding as it rises, and then decelerates and comes to a stop ) Objects fall in a gravitational field because they are ‘not dense enough’ and therefore they can become ‘more dense’ by falling into the gravitational well, becoming more dense as space contracts. As space contracts and density increases, the rate of displacement increases, and the falling object experiences relativistic acceleration.
John’s atomic density is less than that of his much denser space craft, which means that John’s atomic wave function is red-shifted relative to his spacecraft, which means that John is already more dense than his space craft and has less distance to fall within the gravitational field. Therefore John for some reason John cannot absorb the increasing density of energy being imparted to the system by the rocket engines as fast as can his rocket ship, and therefore the rocket gains density faster than John does, causing rocket to accelerate (be displaced) upwards faster than John is accelerated.
Scenario Two (my preferred explanation)
Both John and his rocket absorb energy and increase their atomic density at the same rate, but because John is already ‘more dense’ than his rocket (and therefore is more ‘red-shifted’ and has less distance to fall in the gravitational field), John’s atomic density increases more rapidly than the energetic density of his rocket. Therefore John begins to experience the effects of gravitational deceleration before his rocket does, thus causing John to decelerate while his rocket is still accelerating, with the end result being a lower rate of acceleration for John. John will be pushed back into his astronaut chair as the rocket rises and experience ‘G-Forces’ because of the differential in the rates of acceleration that exist between John’s red-shifted atomic wave function and the blue-shifted atomic wave function of his much denser rocket.
Solution
John’s rocket has been designed of light weight material which closely matches the atomic wave function of John. Both John and rocket accelerate at the same rate, allowing John to rocket into space at a much higher velocity, without experiencing G-Forces. This saves on fuel, for it is required that John’s much denser, blue-shifted rocket crawl out into space at the speed of snail to avoid killing John, taking forever to increase the density of John’s heavy blue shifted rocket so that it will be able to escape the gravitational field.