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RE: Travel Time to Alpha Centauri - Python Program
I calculate 0.95 times the speed of light. What is actually even more interesting is that it doesn't take much more time to cover a lot more distance. To reach a thousand light years would take 13 years ship time, but back on earth just over a 1000 years will have passed, and by the time you got a signal back to earth yet another 1000 years will have passed.
That is really amazing, how time is so relative to your situation.
It is basically relative to speed and gravity! The higher the speed at which an object moves or the more powerful the gravitational field an object suffers from, the slower time flows as observed by this specific object.
Great answer, thank you!
Funnily enough, I cannot resist from advertising one of my old articles where I showed that it was possible to reach the end of the observable universe and come back in less than a human lifetime even with a constant acceleration of 1g. See here. I hope you will enjoy it :D
I just recently did a piece similar to yours, well, if you minus the fact that mine was not as articulate, not only speaking of the mathematical equations, but showing the work too! Haha, it was a great read for sure. Much more in depth than I took it and very well explained so someone who enjoys physics or fishing could retain and understand what you explained. @terrylovejoy has been a great Mentor so far for me. Steemstem seems to have a very meticulous and fine tuned team I will say that. Ive only known terry for a short time and he has helped me improve in great strides so I too can produce the quality this group is expected to publish. Cheers.
I just read your post. Indeed, including a bit more structure on it could have been useful (it is kind of pretty hard to read, to be honest). However, you have really improved with your last one on the gravitational wave :)
Thank you so much for the compliment @lemouth. I've never been one to writr, clearly, until now and @terrylovejoy has been a tremendous help. If I do something I really try to do it my best. Some things just take practice. 👍🏻
However, please don't ask me to work for you! This is not how it works around here...
😂 noted sir.
Thank you for the complement's @param3dic , that means a lot!
That's brilliant, you've also included the analytical method for calculating this in the post (rather than the brute force method above). The sad thing is that there would be probably nothing to come back to from that journey :(
Totally, although as I said it in my post, it is not clear we will be able to ever accomplish it as we are missing the technology so far.