“Try like many many lifetimes. We do not have the technology YET to even get close.”
We would have to develop warp drive first. The idea is to somehow shrink space/time in front of your space ship and expand it behind. Then you could go faster than light.
If we used near light speed it would take something like 60,000 years to get to the closes star, let alone one of the cool habitable planets they are finding.
“We would have to develop warp drive first. The idea is to somehow shrink space/time in front of your space ship and expand it behind. Then you could go faster than light.”
This is exactly why I am so fascinated with the undertakings currently underway at CERN. Although it seems logical to me that it would be impossible to go faster than the speed of light (which would theoretically result in time travel) there needs to be a way to get extremely close to that speed.
But heck, in complex matters such as these I default to that physicists.
Yeah but doesn’t a light year mean the distance light travels in one year? So if we had a vehicle that could travel near light speed and the planet is 22 light years away, wouldn’t that be a little over 22 years?