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Is that fast enough for relativistic effects on-board? It might be 220 years for those left behind, but for the people on the ship it might be less than a lifet
by DougWebb 13y ago
Is that fast enough for relativistic effects on-board? It might be 220 years for those left behind, but for the people on the ship it might be less than a lifetime. They'd probably still have to raise children on the way to take care of the exploring when they got there.
- cgore 13y ago218 years, instead of 220. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+dilation+calculator&a=*FS-_**RelativisticTimeDilationFormula.to-.*RelativisticTimeDilationFormula.t-.*RelativisticTimeDilationFormula.v--&f2=220+year&x=0&y=0&f=RelativisticTimeDilationFormula.t_220+year&f3=0.1+c&f=RelativisticTimeDilationFormula.v_0.1+c http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+dilation+calculato...
- lmm 13y agoThere are no substantial relativistic effects at 0.1c; the time dilation factor is sqrt(c^2 - v^2), so about 0.995 in this case.