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    Solving for velocity in a time dilation round trip problem

    I'm working on a simple time dilation problem: Astronomers discover a planet orbiting around a star similar to our sun that is 20 LY away. How fast must a rocket ship go if the round trip is to take no longer than 40 years in time for the astronauts aboard? I have set up the problem: T=...