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Is space travel a possibility?
 
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Is space travel a possibility?
Yes. We've done it.
 
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Perhaps what you wanted to say was time travel?As the Godel metric proposes?Because space travel has been done already decades now with space exploration through space missions sending astronauts and devices in space outside earth.See the Godel metric theoretically for it if you want.It is a solution of Einstein field equations and practically why would someone do it and how?Is it necessary?
 

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