(July 23, 2015 at 7:22 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(July 23, 2015 at 6:05 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I know, it's the way they always say it just 1000 light years away, as if anyone alive in the next 1000 years at least is going to live to see it.
That depends entirely on what fraction of c one is traveling and what reference frame you're using.
Counterintuitively, travelling 1000ly at 0.99c won't take anywhere near 1000 years for the passengers
141 years, actually
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
