hayabusaboston
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Hi Guys!
Calculated something awesome, I did.
If someone got into a spaceship and accelerated to 0.9c, then, assuming a fatal acceleration is 100ms^-2, we could go with 87.5ms^-2 as the acceleration of the ship. This would then take 35.69 days to accelerate to 0.9c. Once at this speed, lets assume the person travelled for 80 yrs (the average lifespan, and you can assume the original person wasnt a baby, lets say it was a 20 yr old man), then through time dilation, events outside this frame of reference will have elapsed over 183.5 years. Since speed equals distance over time, the distance covered will be 1.56x10^15 kilometres. 1 light year travels at around the x10^18 level, so EVEN AFTER TRAVELLING at 0.9c for 80 YEARS, you would still have only travelled 0.00017 light years! AND TO THINK THERE ARE PLACES BILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY!!
I could have miscalculated somewhere lol, but I dont think I did as far as I can tell. We just learnt about time dilation in physics today and I was super excited and tried to find the maximum dilation calculable on the calculator, which I ended up calculating as being 1 second dilating to 16.5 hours haha. Nerdgasmic shiz right there
If im wrong plz correct me peeps/
EDIT: I was wrong LOL recalculating, epically miscalculated, it looks like u actually travel 165.177 light years, assuming light is 299,792,248ms^-1. speed travelling is 0.9 of the speed of light, time travelling is 183.53 years.
THAT SEEMS ODD
am i right here?
Calculated something awesome, I did.
If someone got into a spaceship and accelerated to 0.9c, then, assuming a fatal acceleration is 100ms^-2, we could go with 87.5ms^-2 as the acceleration of the ship. This would then take 35.69 days to accelerate to 0.9c. Once at this speed, lets assume the person travelled for 80 yrs (the average lifespan, and you can assume the original person wasnt a baby, lets say it was a 20 yr old man), then through time dilation, events outside this frame of reference will have elapsed over 183.5 years. Since speed equals distance over time, the distance covered will be 1.56x10^15 kilometres. 1 light year travels at around the x10^18 level, so EVEN AFTER TRAVELLING at 0.9c for 80 YEARS, you would still have only travelled 0.00017 light years! AND TO THINK THERE ARE PLACES BILLIONS OF LIGHT YEARS AWAY!!
I could have miscalculated somewhere lol, but I dont think I did as far as I can tell. We just learnt about time dilation in physics today and I was super excited and tried to find the maximum dilation calculable on the calculator, which I ended up calculating as being 1 second dilating to 16.5 hours haha. Nerdgasmic shiz right there
If im wrong plz correct me peeps/
EDIT: I was wrong LOL recalculating, epically miscalculated, it looks like u actually travel 165.177 light years, assuming light is 299,792,248ms^-1. speed travelling is 0.9 of the speed of light, time travelling is 183.53 years.
THAT SEEMS ODD
am i right here?
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