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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
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RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
(September 14, 2016 at 8:43 am)Alex K Wrote:
(September 14, 2016 at 8:40 am)Little lunch Wrote: It's funny how we talk of suns being light years away, yet if you travelled to either sun at the speed of light it would take the same amount of time to get there.

Fortunately, if you travel near the speed of light, much  less time passes for you, the traveller, than on Earth!

And if you're lucky enough to be a photon, you get to have NO time pass, which means that from your perspective, the sun you came from and the skin you get absorbed into are touching.  And if space is an illusion in one frame of reference, it must be an illusion in ALL frames of reference.


Or something.

(insert geometrical crayon drawing here)
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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Rhondazvous - September 13, 2016 at 11:02 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Alex K - September 13, 2016 at 11:04 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Rhondazvous - September 13, 2016 at 2:49 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 2:52 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Rhondazvous - September 13, 2016 at 3:29 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Alex K - September 13, 2016 at 3:34 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Rhondazvous - September 13, 2016 at 4:23 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 4:54 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Rhondazvous - September 13, 2016 at 8:18 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 14, 2016 at 10:14 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 4:53 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Whateverist - September 14, 2016 at 12:05 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 14, 2016 at 12:11 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Aoi Magi - September 13, 2016 at 11:07 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by FatAndFaithless - September 13, 2016 at 11:07 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Rhondazvous - September 13, 2016 at 2:10 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by TheRealJoeFish - September 13, 2016 at 2:15 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Alex K - September 13, 2016 at 2:16 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 2:42 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by vorlon13 - September 13, 2016 at 11:46 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 11:47 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by ApeNotKillApe - September 13, 2016 at 12:10 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 12:18 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by LostLocke - September 13, 2016 at 2:11 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by LostLocke - September 13, 2016 at 2:17 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Neo-Scholastic - September 13, 2016 at 2:18 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 13, 2016 at 2:28 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 13, 2016 at 2:51 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 13, 2016 at 2:53 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Jackalope - September 13, 2016 at 3:38 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Alex K - September 13, 2016 at 3:41 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 13, 2016 at 3:44 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Rhondazvous - September 13, 2016 at 4:37 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Arkilogue - September 13, 2016 at 3:48 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Jesster - September 13, 2016 at 3:50 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 13, 2016 at 3:59 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by ApeNotKillApe - September 13, 2016 at 3:54 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Jesster - September 13, 2016 at 4:36 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by ApeNotKillApe - September 13, 2016 at 4:58 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 13, 2016 at 4:37 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by dyresand - September 13, 2016 at 4:49 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Jesster - September 13, 2016 at 5:00 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 5:03 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Jesster - September 13, 2016 at 5:07 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 5:11 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by ApeNotKillApe - September 13, 2016 at 5:13 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Jesster - September 13, 2016 at 5:16 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Arkilogue - September 13, 2016 at 5:18 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by ApeNotKillApe - September 13, 2016 at 5:23 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Jackalope - September 13, 2016 at 5:35 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Whateverist - September 14, 2016 at 12:07 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 13, 2016 at 5:44 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by TheRealJoeFish - September 13, 2016 at 5:57 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 13, 2016 at 6:11 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 13, 2016 at 6:15 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Jehanne - September 13, 2016 at 8:29 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Little lunch - September 14, 2016 at 8:40 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Alex K - September 14, 2016 at 8:43 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by bennyboy - September 14, 2016 at 9:24 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Little lunch - September 15, 2016 at 1:24 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by bennyboy - September 14, 2016 at 9:21 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Alex K - September 14, 2016 at 9:25 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by bennyboy - September 14, 2016 at 8:59 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Alex K - September 15, 2016 at 12:39 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 14, 2016 at 10:15 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Whateverist - September 14, 2016 at 12:14 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 14, 2016 at 12:23 pm
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 15, 2016 at 7:53 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 15, 2016 at 8:14 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Alex K - September 15, 2016 at 8:20 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by bennyboy - September 15, 2016 at 9:06 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Gawdzilla Sama - September 15, 2016 at 8:39 am
RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri? - by Cyberman - September 15, 2016 at 11:04 am

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