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The flaw in your theory being that it would take you equally as long to slow down as it would to reach that speed. So you would age out on the deceleration. I
by Topgamer7 4y ago
The flaw in your theory being that it would take you equally as long to slow down as it would to reach that speed. So you would age out on the deceleration.
I suppose you could accelerate in an orbit around earth to maintain contact. But my understanding of relativity is poor
- scarygliders 4y agoDepends on how good your spacecraft is at speeding up and slowing down, really. There are many designs which could probably do this relatively (heh) quickly. I'm sure producing one of these things is more possible right now than freezing/thawing/reviving a human. Alternatively, to compensate for how long it would take to speed up and slow down, just have our intrepid time-o-naut climb into their suspended animatio--- oh heck ;)
- BreakfastB0b 4y agoYou would age the same amount during deceleration that you did during acceleration. I think your misunderstanding comes from the relativistic twin paradox. From the perspective of the twin on the spaceship accelerating away from earth, the twin on earth seems to age slowly as well until the space ship twin decelerates and then turns around, during which they perceive the twin on earth to age rapidly. The acceleration / deceleration of the space ship twin’s frame of reference is what breaks the symmetry of the no-preferred frame of reference during flight.
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