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RE: Interstellar space travel will always cost you your life, but now how you may think.
The things that you are saying are the ones that intrigues me the most, i don't understand how time works and that is a kind facinating. Well it's amazing to think that maybe in the future we really keep our species traveling in space. Great post
Thank you or your read. Yeah when you get into quantum mechanics it can get really heavy really fast! Just check out interstellar travel and or theory of special relativity the Einstein came up with. It is the theory that explains why when an object starts traveling closer and closer to the speed of light it will never actually achieve the speed of light but it will start to cause time dilation. General relativity pretty much states we are moving in the same direction at the same time. An object in motion experiences time dilation, meaning that time moves more slowly when one is moving, than when one is standing still. Therefore, a person moving ages more slowly than a person at rest.
Thanks for answering :)
I was reading about all this and I even had the opportunity to see two series (which are documentaries), which really helped me to understand a little more (because sometimes reading is complicated by the fact of having many physical terms that I do not understand 100 %), the first '' Cosmos: a space-time odyssey '' and the second '' Genius '' (is the biography of Einstein). Now I know that many things in space are extraordinary and every time I read about time or gravity, I want to know more and more. Thanks again for all the information.
You are absolutely welcome. I love documentaries myself, because like you just said, when reading things of this nature you can get lost in the translation and become overwhelmed, either losing interest or misunderstanding the content. Watching series is a fantastic way to be able to gestate the material. Here in the states we have a series called How the universe works that is pretty amazing and nicely done.