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> 3. Even if you could go that fast, you'll eventually hit a speck of dust and disintegrate. Can you elaborate on that? Do you mean if we clash with anything (
by behnamoh 2y ago
> 3. Even if you could go that fast, you'll eventually hit a speck of dust and disintegrate.
Can you elaborate on that? Do you mean if we clash with anything (even as small as a space dust) while traveling at a substantial fraction of c, it would disintegrate us?
- mr_mitm 2y agoIt would cause damage. The faster you go, the worse is the damage. Even just the cosmic microwave background will eventually turn into dangerous gamma radiation, so you will need heavy lead shields in the front, which makes traveling even more expensive and difficult. At certain speeds, you should think of your spaceship as a drill penetrating the inter galactic medium. And even then the journey will take millions or billions of years (in the reference frame of those staying at home).