Posted on 10/31/2020 12:01:44 AM PDT by LibWhacker
It would not surprise me if some stars have a certain composition such that when their burning sun phase ends they leave a core that goes on to become a planet around some other star, and that some “gas giants” are also, strangely, a former sun that went into a massive “cooling” phase as it’s sun phase was ending.
I don’t see how warp speed is really going to help much. I am assuming you are talking about the speed of light. If we were looking to travel to a place that is 500,000 light years away, and could travel at the speed of light, it would take us 500,000 years to get there.
The money wasted on these searches would be better spend on studying our oceans.
That dress like futuristic hippies.
As viewed from Earth. But as viewed by those onboard the ship making the trip, it'd happen in the blink of an eye. And they could make the trip back in another blink... 'Course, at least a million years would've passed back on Earth. Things might be a leeetle different when they get back.
Let me get this straight... You want to spend a million billion trillion dollars studying the ocean??? No way!
So, 500,000 years to those onboard would be in a blink of an eye? If the trip took 1,000,000 years it take two blinks? How much time is in a blink?
IF they could go AT the speed of light, which they can’t, the trip there would be instantaneous for them. But, you could get arbitrarily close to the speed of light in principle; i.e., you could make the trip in 1/100th of a second if you were impatient.
(No one in his right mind would want to do this, because there are all kinds of problems he’d encounter. But in principle, it could be done.)
Called Lorenz Contraction, another one of Einstein’s discoveries.
Thanks LibWhacker.
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Um...”discoveries??? I think they are called theories, which tend to hold, until a better one comes along.
It’s been confirmed. Good luck waiting for a better one to come along.
“confirmed” lol......
Fair point.
>If we were looking to travel to a place that is 500,000 light years away, and could travel at the speed of light, it would take us 500,000 years to get there.
You are ignoring Einstein’s relativity. 500,000 years would pass on earth. No time, or very little time because the speed of light itself is unattainable, would pass on the spaceship. As observed by the spaceship, the distance to travel would shrink to near zero.
Huh? “Speed of light is unattainable”? “Distance to travel would shrink to near zero”? Also, you seem to ignore, it’s Einstein’s THEORY of relativity.
Just stop you’re embarrassing yourself.
No, your ignorance is showing.
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