BAM! Now I am officially smarter than everyone! LOL! I kid.
Man, thanks sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo frickin much for helping me understand this. I am indebted to you!
I think I see it now lol
Its because as the ship gets closer, the distance the light travels is shorter and shorter. Correct?
Unlike the star whose light always takes 5 years to get here.
I am just having a hard time understanding how I see 5 light years of light get to me in 18.45 days...
If I see that star go super nova at the exact same time your ship turned towards me. In 5 years I would see the start explode and your ship just staring to head towards me. But just 24 hours...
Ok. If your looking at this planet at 5 light years away. You know its 5 light years away. you get on the ship and you arrive on the planet in .7 years. Once your on the ship does the planet appear to be .7 light years away?
I am watching 5 years and 18.45 days worth of light in 18.45 days...
I see what I was doing... I was making time go faster for me rather than time slower for you. Now I understand what's going on haha
Just a thought I had... If your a human going on this ship, you know your traveling 10 light years round trip, yet you experience 1.41 years. Not sure how to ask a...
"If you go back and look at my first two responses you will see that in my first one (your second example), the destination, according to you is something less than 35 light-years, but according to me it is less than 5 light-years. In my second response, the destination according to you is...
Maybe I am not understanding but this dost seem to explain why I am viewing this event take soooo long to get to where it is going.
If I shine a laser at planet-x 5 light year away it would take 10 years before I see the reflection off that planet. I get that.
If I send you in a ship...
Everything is becoming much clearer. Thanks!
If I am not mistaken it would appear to (to me) take 65 years for the ship to get to its destination and just around 5 year for it to return?
Why do I see it take so long for the ship to get to its destination?
I can't even find words on how to ask this question. My father brought it up to me and I don't know how to answer it...
I am at a fixed location you take off at near light speed away from me, 5 years later I look up in the sky and you would almost be 5 light year away from me. Now because...