I once did the calculation. If you accelerate at a lovely 9.81 m/s^2 you reach light speed in about a year or so. So if you time it right and decelerate with the same rate you can reach about any place in the nearby universe in about two years.
Just need to figure out this pesky energy problem. And hopefully not collide with cosmic rays on the way.
Certainly, but it’s only an physical example of the relativity of time. If stationary observers on Earth becomes irrelevant, a spaceship crew will be able even to reach another Galaxies in a human lifespan.
From a certain point of view.
If you are fast enough, certaunly you experience few time in the journey, only for the observer on Earth it last a lot of years.
https://skullsinthestars.com/2012/09/10/relativity-ten-minutes-to-alpha-centauri/
They forgot about time it takes to accelerate…
https://skullsinthestars.com/2012/09/10/relativity-ten-minutes-to-alpha-centauri/#comment-15040
I once did the calculation. If you accelerate at a lovely 9.81 m/s^2 you reach light speed in about a year or so. So if you time it right and decelerate with the same rate you can reach about any place in the nearby universe in about two years.
Just need to figure out this pesky energy problem. And hopefully not collide with cosmic rays on the way.
Certainly, but it’s only an physical example of the relativity of time. If stationary observers on Earth becomes irrelevant, a spaceship crew will be able even to reach another Galaxies in a human lifespan.
Well if you accelerate over the course of 1 second, you’d experience 30,591,067 g’s of acceleration.
Now for some reason NASA doesn’t have that figure on a time of useful consciousness chart, but I think I could do it