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If we were ever able to travel the speed of light (or close to it), lets say somewhere 10 light years away. It would take roughly 10 years to get to your destination. This would be the same for the trip back. This is a total of 20 years.... but that is just for the people traveling at the speed of light. People on earth would experience no change and would go on with their lives so the time for the trip to return would be much, much greater. What are your thoughts on this? Leave a comment

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Last part made little sense,

and it wouldn't take that long depending on your destination
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Noval wrote Last part made little sense,

and it wouldn't take that long depending on your destination


People in the shuttle would be on the trip for 10 years relative to earth because they are traveling at such a high speed, yet people on earth that would be a large amount of time (I'm not sure exactly how much). And for the distance to the destination that is 10 light years.
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If we traveled at the speed of light our body would disintegrate.
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Where is the conspiracy here? All you have done here is attempted to explain to us the idea of Time Dilation from Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

To clear this up, the idea of Time Dilation is the idea that the faster you move, the slower of an effect time has on you, relative to a stationary observer. Speeds that we can manage on Earth have a negligible effect of Time Dilation. However, when we send satellites up into orbit around our planet, Time Dilation does have to be accounted for, as things like GPS navigation would be 10s of miles out if we did not account for Time Dilation.

Either way though, this is not a conspiracy.
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Yeah, the people on the shuttle would be 20 years older and everyone back on earth would have no idea who you are.

If you have a friend in a crazy aero-engineering/space/whatever hoo-ha career, you should talk to them about it. It's really interesting to get the basics but the explanations are really, really complicated. Flys way over my head.

At the same time, this isn't a conspiracy theory.
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Hiro wrote If we traveled at the speed of light our body would disintegrate.


I dont why you got a thumbs down because its true as of now our bodies were not made to handle that much speed, our bones would be reduced to powder if that.
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You didn't explain this well and need to do a little more research. Ok, guys. If you can manage to get up to near the speed of light (300,000 km/s) you can reach a place 10 light years away in a mere 10 years. He failed to mention that as you begin to reach these intense speeds time does not pass as fast as it does on earth (Theory of relativity). So, if you go to a star 10 ly away and back perhaps to you it would feel like 2 years (At your incredible speed of 98% the speed of light) but people on earth would be 20 years older. Kind of make more sense?
He didn't explain it correctly and kind of said this backwards.
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Hiro wrote If we traveled at the speed of light our body would disintegrate.

Well disregarding the fact that we can't travel at the speed of light we would not disintegrate either. There is no air resistance in space and so we won't experience any friction regardless of our speed.

..Of course there may be debris on the way. But, far away from stars and other planets there is almost a negligible amount.
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Hiro wrote If we traveled at the speed of light our body would disintegrate.
thats not true physically the speed of light isnt possible but if your inside of a capsule travel at that speed then its 100% possible
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