I really don’t understand why people are so hung up on the clocks back home. I mean, sure it would be nice to take a trip to Alpha Centauri, come back home, an

I really don’t understand why people are so hung up on the clocks back home. I mean, sure it would be nice to take a trip to Alpha Centauri, come back home, and boast about it to all of your friends, but really wouldn’t getting to see a few tens of thousands of years go by be even cooler? To the constantly accelerating interstellar traveler distances get really small after a year or so. You’d be able to make it to the edge of the universe and back in a lifetime. Well, ‘back’ is probably not going to have a lot in common with this place, so maybe stick to distances in our local group or something. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_acceleration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_...