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blake_jl
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Hi Guys and girls
First have very little knowledge of this stuff, but watched a tv program today that made my head spin a little bit. The threads I have read on this forum make it spin a little more, so I'd like to just post my question and hope there is a simple answer.
The program I watched spoke about someone accelerating at 1G on a trip around the milky way and someone waiting on Earth for them to return. The figures I may have recalled incorrectly but it was something like 150000 years the person would be waiting for them to return but to the person in the spaceship it would only feel like 24 years.
So the person returns 24 years older to find the Earth 150000 years older than they left it.
Now assuming we have the technology for this spaceship and then also the technology to build a continuous communication system with the pilot...
What happens then? For the pilot one second is equivalent to 6250 seconds on earth?!
First have very little knowledge of this stuff, but watched a tv program today that made my head spin a little bit. The threads I have read on this forum make it spin a little more, so I'd like to just post my question and hope there is a simple answer.
The program I watched spoke about someone accelerating at 1G on a trip around the milky way and someone waiting on Earth for them to return. The figures I may have recalled incorrectly but it was something like 150000 years the person would be waiting for them to return but to the person in the spaceship it would only feel like 24 years.
So the person returns 24 years older to find the Earth 150000 years older than they left it.
Now assuming we have the technology for this spaceship and then also the technology to build a continuous communication system with the pilot...
What happens then? For the pilot one second is equivalent to 6250 seconds on earth?!