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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
Very true, although the years-to-minutes time dilation factor of, say, 100,000 (1 year approx 5 minutes) requires a velocity of about 0.9999999999 times the speed of light. Accelerating a 100 kg person (including his spacesuit) to that speed from rest should require on the order of 10^24 joules, or about 10 billion years worth of the entire world's energy usage. On the other hand, that's only about the equivalent of the sun's energy output for 3 milliseconds.*
*Questionable sources used, but...DAMN!
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Just curious - I am not a physicist but what if scientists figure out how to create and control anti-matter?
Would that adjust the numbers of the energy needed to consume for such a trip??
Also, on another note, wouldn't the most feasible way for humans to travel be something along the lines of the movie Event Horizon - where they essentially create a mini-black hole that folds space-time, and then just rip a hole through it and unfold it again?? Is that worm-hole technology, or is worm-hole travel limited to the theoretical worm holes that are out there in space already and we just have to find them?
