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Travel to Nearby Planets
How long would it take from the frame of reference of the crew to get to a star system 40 light years away at a constant 1g accelleration. Does time dilation make colonisation a real possibility or not?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.if by 1g acceleration you mean 9.8m/s² then I calculate it will take 8 years. But I also calculate it will by then have reached a speed of 2.7 billion metres per second, which is well in excess of the speed of light, and I'm not sure this can ever be possible.
The maths was done in my head so could be out but I'm sure someone on here can calculate it
The maths was done in my head so could be out but I'm sure someone on here can calculate it