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Originally Posted by Osem
With a travel time of 470 years at the speed of light, I don't think we're going to be around to see that unless some amazing scientific advances are made and we stop killing eachother. In fact there's no guarantee that we wouldn't set off on the journey only to find en route that the planet's not there anymore...  |
The thing is, when you travel at the speed of light, outside time stops. Therefore if you were on that ship, you could travel an infinite distance in 1 year at the speed of light. It's more likely you wouldn't see anyone left on Earth when you get back...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special...m_the_Earth.3F
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Originally Posted by Damien
Even with the money it's unlikely. It's too far away. Too many limitations on our technology in order to make up the time. We would have to go faster than the speed of light to make it in any reasonable amount of time.
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The whole point is the faster you go, the slower time goes. When you hit the speed of light (which is impossible) time stops completely.
Of course I'm talking from the perspective of somebody
on that ship, rather than a bystander watching it from Earth. From the latter point of view, it'd be like that Interstellar movie.
More importantly though, with enough money and current technology you could probably
get in your lifetime but you certainly won't be coming back.