Huh? If it takes light 50,000 years to make this distance, how are people going to do it in 10? Am I missing something?
Ummmm..., Warp 9 and wormholes.. :-)
Huh? If it takes light 50,000 years to make this distance, how are people going to do it in 10? Am I missing something?
Relativistic time dilation. To an observer on Earth, the spacecraft would take the full 50,000 years to reach its destination, but to the crew the journey would only take 10 years.
You’re apparently missing a hit off this guy’s bong.
Huh? If it takes light 50,000 years to make this distance, how are people going to do it in 10? Am I missing something?
Ummmm..., Warp 9 and wormholes.. :-)
“Huh? If it takes light 50,000 years to make this distance, how are people going to do it in 10? Am I missing something?”
WOW!
Have you not heard of Warp Factor 500?!?
What a N00B. /sarc
The faster an object’s velocity; the slower time passes. This is called Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and has been proven to be true innumerable times by comparing atomic clocks. Perfectly synchronized atomic clocks will show differences if one is placed on a plane. The one that travelled, even at a modest subsonic speed, will show a slower time.
This happens every day in particle accelerators. Sub-atomic particles with lifespans in the nanoseconds can last hundreds, even thousands of times longer when they are travelling close to the speed of light.
It is easy to figure out the time dilation experienced by traveling objects. Divide the velocity of the object by the speed of light and square the results. Subtract the result from one and square root it. The final result will be the amount of slowing of time of the traveling object. For example, if an astronaut on a spaceship left earth at a constant velocity of 90% the speed of light (.9c) to a planet 10 light-years away, his velocity would be 270,000 kps and should be divided by the speed of light (300,000 kps) which comes out to .9. Square it (.9 x .9) = .81. Subtract from one (1 - .81) = .19. Get its square root = .4359. The Time Dilation of the spaceship = .4359, meaning, for the 10 light-year trip, the astronaut only experiences 43.59% of time that people on earth would experience. For the ten light-year trip, the astronaut only experiences the duration of the trip to last 4.359 years, whereas ten years would’ve passed on the earth.
To reiterate, the closer an object approaches the speed of light; the slower time passes for it. It is certainly possible for a spaceship to travel 50,000 light years and only experience 10 years subjective time. Heck, it’s possible for a spaceship to travel across the entire universe of billions of light years and only experience a split second of time, if they are just a trillionth of a percentage below light speed.
“Huh? If it takes light 50,000 years to make this distance, how are people going to do it in 10? Am I missing something? “
Yes you are, as are the folks who wrote the article. You don’t actually go the speed of light, you travel through a worm hole...
You obviously don't understand warp drive physics.
You really need to read up on your Zefram Cochrane.
Yes, the 'Trekkie's' understanding of what "Warp Five" meant :o)
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