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The ship will never hit c.
by Thrymr 7y ago
The ship will never hit c.
- nealabq 7y agoIf the ship travels tens of billions of light years will it eventually be traveling away from it's starting point at greater than c due to the dark-energy expansion of space itself? Or will the ship just red-shift more and more but never disappear from an observer with a very good telescope who stayed home? And what if you drove your ship straight into a super-massive black hole?
- isostatic 7y agoOne theory of the far future (Big Rip) is eventually nearby galaxies will be receeding faster then light, then stars, planets, then even atoms. There's a short story about the Big Rip https://web.archive.org/web/20080725045740/http://www.solarisbooks.com/books/newbookscifi/last-contact.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20080725045740/http://www.solari...