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wcdrotar
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Hey y'all,
I've been lurking for a little bit and just reading since I'm not as knowledgeable as many of y'all. I'm a university student preparing for web design/database administration but consider studying physics/cosmology my (only) hobby.
My question is about the requirements for light speed.
Some say it is and will always be impossible- could you explain your reasoning?
Some say it may be possible but there are seemingly paradoxical obstacles to overcome, or obstacles that we may never discover how to work around them. What do you think about what we'll have to do?
As it stands there's almost no question in my mind that I don't think we'd ever be able to actually just propel ourselves in the traditional sense of traveling to speeds anywhere even close to light. Even with new fuels that we've developed we can't construct metals strong enough to not burn up in the engines that contain them.
Assuming we can make it around our small solar system using traditional fuel propeling methods of travel- what changes in space travel would have to be developed to allow us to travel to say the closest planet in a Goldilocks zone?
I'm not talking about objects or rockets I mean actual shuttles.
I've been lurking for a little bit and just reading since I'm not as knowledgeable as many of y'all. I'm a university student preparing for web design/database administration but consider studying physics/cosmology my (only) hobby.
My question is about the requirements for light speed.
Some say it is and will always be impossible- could you explain your reasoning?
Some say it may be possible but there are seemingly paradoxical obstacles to overcome, or obstacles that we may never discover how to work around them. What do you think about what we'll have to do?
As it stands there's almost no question in my mind that I don't think we'd ever be able to actually just propel ourselves in the traditional sense of traveling to speeds anywhere even close to light. Even with new fuels that we've developed we can't construct metals strong enough to not burn up in the engines that contain them.
Assuming we can make it around our small solar system using traditional fuel propeling methods of travel- what changes in space travel would have to be developed to allow us to travel to say the closest planet in a Goldilocks zone?
I'm not talking about objects or rockets I mean actual shuttles.