Comment Re: sub-lightspeed travel still pretty good .. (Score 1) 816
If you accelerate towards your destination then you keep accelerating without limitation. Thus, you'll get to wherever you're going in ever shorter amount of time for you. While you can never make it to light speed w.r.t. any matter in the universe, it doesn't mean you can't squash the amount of space between you and the destination.
As you accelerate, the distance left to travel also becomes less and less. Assuming you could accelerate very, very, very quickly, then you could conceivably close the distance between you and the destination to within, say, a few inches also very quickly -- from a standstill to high acceleration from Earth.
Now traveling what was 1,000 light years over those few inches is very fast in your time, but for observers in your old frame of reference, they'll be long gone upon returning to your original frame of ref. But other than that ..
I guess my biggest questions are, is anything I said true? and if not, where did it all go horribly wrong?
As you accelerate, the distance left to travel also becomes less and less. Assuming you could accelerate very, very, very quickly, then you could conceivably close the distance between you and the destination to within, say, a few inches also very quickly -- from a standstill to high acceleration from Earth.
Now traveling what was 1,000 light years over those few inches is very fast in your time, but for observers in your old frame of reference, they'll be long gone upon returning to your original frame of ref. But other than that
I guess my biggest questions are, is anything I said true? and if not, where did it all go horribly wrong?
