Greatly appreciate the contributions to this question of mine, I guess the issue for a designer of the spacecraft is what should the instruments display regarding speed and distance travelled, since the travellers are experiencing time at a different rate to their fellow earthlings. Maybe the...
I’m still with you all so far and understand technicalities like the max speed would have to be 0.999 the speed of light etc. Ed I don’t think the travellers experience the 50 years in real time and yet their bodies only age 1 year. If time slows down the closer light speed is reached then the...
Let’s say we have a spaceship capable of traveling at the speed of light, and a planet we can visit 50 light years away. From earth’s perspective if we can track the ship we would be able to see it was traveling at the speed of light and we would also see it has taken 50 years to complete the...