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Originally Posted by pylon
The problem is this, great , you build your super duper light mobile 3000, and decide to take it for its maiden voyage to our nearest major galaxy Andromeda. You power it up to full speed, and you get there in what you perceive as minutes, days maybe a couple years. However, when you show up you will be millions or billions of years in the future and humans likely cease to exist, and for all you know the universe is collapsing or perhaps in the midst the big rip, and your atoms are being torn apart electron by electron.
I don't understand the exact math or physics behind how time dilation works, but it essentially renders near light or faster than light travel useless for any practical purpose. Ultimately traversing the stars will likely involve wormholes, or some type of warp drive to counteract the time dilation effect. I would say we are still likely thousands of years away.
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True, we must harness the power of the black hole, haha.
The problem with wormholes or blackholes say, is where do they lead? If you were to "plant" a wormhole in the Andromeda Galaxy and then next to Earth, that still leaves us with the dilemma of getting their and "planting" a wormhole.
I still say 1000 years, hopefully they develop good cryogen technology soon too.
