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re: Is it impossible to travel to another solar system?
Posted on 4/8/14 at 9:37 am to Displaced
Posted on 4/8/14 at 9:37 am to Displaced
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What do you think about that idea that time nearly stops when traveling at the speed of light?
It is basically fact according to the Lorentz time dilation equation. Obviously in order to travel at light speed one must become light. I just don't see us getting there before we go extinct.
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Posted on 4/8/14 at 5:26 pm to DanTiger
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It is basically fact according to the Lorentz time dilation equation. Obviously in order to travel at light speed one must become light. I just don't see us getting there before we go extinct.
Yup. Even at light speed, it would take over four years to get to the nearest solar system to our own.
Even if our technological progression remained linear, which it probably won't for various reasons, it would take hundreds and hundreds of years of advancement to achieve near light speed.
Beyond light speed to go to other solar systems? The laws of physics may make that impossible as we understand them currently. We don't know yet.
This post was edited on 4/8/14 at 5:34 pm
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