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If you travelled at the speed of light
Dec 5^th, 2024 at 8:03pm

If you travelled at the speed of light it'ld take you:

1 second to go around Earth seven and a half times.
3 years to reach the outer limits of our Solar System (The Oort cloud)
4 years to get to Proxima Centuri.
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy - 25,000 years.
The Andromeda Galaxy ( a nice spiral one) - 2,500,000 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jfPZWiTOugg&t=443s

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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12511 Gender:	Re: If you travelled at the speed of light Reply #1 - Dec 5^th, 2024 at 8:05pm Invest in wormhole technology now!
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Carl D Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 9531 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: If you travelled at the speed of light Reply #2 - Dec 5^th, 2024 at 9:01pm MeisterEckhart wrote on Dec 5^th, 2024 at 8:05pm: Invest in wormhole technology now! Indeed. As long as we don't develop something like this: Event Horizon (film) This movie still scares the living daylights out of me even though I've seen it 3 or 4 times.
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Re: If you travelled at the speed of light
Reply #3 - Dec 5^th, 2024 at 9:59pm

Sprintcyclist wrote on Dec 5^th, 2024 at 8:03pm:

If you travelled at the speed of light it'ld take you:

1 second to go around Earth seven and a half times.
3 years to reach the outer limits of our Solar System (The Oort cloud)
4 years to get to Proxima Centuri.
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy - 25,000 years.
The Andromeda Galaxy ( a nice spiral one) - 2,500,000 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jfPZWiTOugg&t=443s

1/ Assuming we had that tech,
and 2/ we had the tech to avoid hitting even just pea sized objects ['floating' in space] during our journey.

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Re: If you travelled at the speed of light
Reply #4 - Dec 5^th, 2024 at 10:08pm

To get some idea about how far it is to the nearest star (other than the Sun, of course) I remember reading an article many years ago saying that if our entire Solar System was the size of a 5 cent piece (with the orbit of Pluto being the outside of the coin) then the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) would be about 200 feet away.

Wow. Shocked

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Re: If you travelled at the speed of light
Reply #6 - Dec 6^th, 2024 at 3:34am

Carl D wrote on Dec 5^th, 2024 at 10:08pm:

To get some idea about how far it is to the nearest star (other than the Sun, of course) I remember reading an article many years ago saying that if our entire Solar System was the size of a 5 cent piece (with the orbit of Pluto being the outside of the coin) then the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) would be about 200 feet away.

Wow. Shocked

Yes, wow. The distances are far beyond 'distances'.

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Re: If you travelled at the speed of light
Reply #7 - Dec 6^th, 2024 at 7:36am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Dec 5^th, 2024 at 8:03pm:

If you travelled at the speed of light it'ld take you:

1 second to go around Earth seven and a half times.
3 years to reach the outer limits of our Solar System (The Oort cloud)
4 years to get to Proxima Centuri.
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy - 25,000 years.
The Andromeda Galaxy ( a nice spiral one) - 2,500,000 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jfPZWiTOugg&t=443s

I think you would experience far less time. But on the downside, you would put on a lot of weight.

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Re: If you travelled at the speed of light
Reply #8 - Dec 6^th, 2024 at 7:40am

freediver wrote on Dec 6^th, 2024 at 7:36am:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Dec 5^th, 2024 at 8:03pm:

If you travelled at the speed of light it'ld take you:

1 second to go around Earth seven and a half times.
3 years to reach the outer limits of our Solar System (The Oort cloud)
4 years to get to Proxima Centuri.
The center of the Milky Way Galaxy - 25,000 years.
The Andromeda Galaxy ( a nice spiral one) - 2,500,000 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jfPZWiTOugg&t=443s

I think you would experience far less time. But on the downside, you would put on a lot of weight.

As in: zero time and infinitely fat!

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Re: If you travelled at the speed of light
Reply #10 - Dec 29^th, 2024 at 7:40pm

If we connect the fusion reactor directly to the drive of the DeLorean, Marty, and hook the Ultraglushamic Virtabulator - named after the great German scientist Glusheimer - into the circuit..... at a speed of EXACTLY 888.1 miles an hour we enter the translight zone instantly and without interruption, thus overcoming the impossibility of time travel!! We can do it, Marty - we can get back to the future in front of the past and long before the future exists!!! You need to come with me NOW, Marty... after I adjust this Solvaculium Switch .... now where is that small screw driver......

As I travelled, looking back over my shoulder at myself, I knew that I had to be very close to the speed of light. Travelling at or close to lum1 has some very strange effects, and being able to see oneself is just one of the minor ones. Would I freeze; would my self following me also freeze, and we be locked into staring into each other's eyes for eternity? Maybe that's what hell is; forever locked into looking back at yourself and forward at yourself all at the same time – and making eye contact as well!

Things happened fast then - a great white light erupted in front of me - I looked back over my shoulder in the blink of an eye, to see my self looking at me in amazement, and, somehow, with a sense of longing, perhaps for a future gone before which will now never happen. His mouth was open as if he wanted to say something.

'I yelled: "Sorry, buddy, but I've got to leave you behind. I'm sorry, Wilson - I'm sorry!".

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 105219 Melbourne Gender:	Re: If you travelled at the speed of light Reply #11 - Dec 29^th, 2024 at 7:46pm I did some easy calculations once. Even travelling at only 10% of the speed of light - if your spaceship hit a grain of dust only weighing one microgram - it would explode with the power of 4 sticks of dynamite on the hull. Long story short - it's impossible to survive such speeds.
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Re: If you travelled at the speed of light
Reply #12 - Dec 29^th, 2024 at 8:10pm

Bobby. wrote on Dec 29^th, 2024 at 7:46pm:

I did some easy calculations once.

Even travelling at only 10% of the speed of light -
if your spaceship hit a grain of dust only weighing one microgram -
it would explode with the power of 4 sticks of dynamite on the hull.

Long story short -
it's impossible to survive such speeds.

What if it was in one of President Musk's rockets?

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Carl D Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 9531 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: If you travelled at the speed of light Reply #13 - Dec 29^th, 2024 at 8:35pm greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 29^th, 2024 at 8:10pm: What if it was in one of President Musk's rockets? Then it would probably have a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”.
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