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Depends on how our propulsion tech advances. From the local timeframe of people on the ship, a constant 1g of acceleration and then deceleration would get peop
by bratbag 4y ago
Depends on how our propulsion tech advances.
From the local timeframe of people on the ship, a constant 1g of acceleration and then deceleration would get people there in a little under 13 years.
- shiftingleft 4y agoHow much faster than the speed of light are we going here
- DesiLurker 4y agocoolworlds did a video on constant 1G acceleration travel : https://youtu.be/b_TkFhj9mgk https://youtu.be/b_TkFhj9mgk bottomline, you get progressively closer to speed of light and time slows for you so you can cover larger and larger distance in local frame. problem is finding this 1G drive.
- tsimionescu 4y agoNot at all. But those 13 years are from the perspective of the people on the ship (also, from. Their perspective, the distance they travel is much much smaller). From the perspective of people on Earth, the ship arrives on that planet many thousands of years later. Edit: actually, from the perspective of people on Earth, it will roughly arrive 700+1 years later.
- ben_w 4y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that have a peak speed of 0.9999961908c, thus a gamma factor of 362.3, and therefore the CMB ahead of you would be blue-shifted from 2.7 K to 989.1 K?
- hermitcrab 4y agoBut how do you keep up 1g of acceleration as your ship becomes more and more massive, the faster it goes?