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Earth-like planet discovered

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hepcat Grand Master

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Yeah, as neat as it is to find something like this, I think there are better candidates than this one... sounds like it has a pretty small area of habitability. I bet they find more and better planets in the next couple of years.

Problem is, unless there is some major, major breakthrough in propulsion engineering, we aren't seeing another planet like this anytime soon. 20 years at light speed and we can't even get up to a fraction of light speed now...

You ever studied the Lorentz factor? It's some crazy stuff. Basically in a nutshell, if you travel faster than the speed of light, the space-time around you moves slower than the space time for you. So you could leave Earth travelling SUPER fast and only 10 years past for you, but 100 years past on Earth. That's basically what Einstein was talking about when he said time travel was possible.

I think it's funny how Star Trek doesn't deal with the time consequences of their "warp drive" technology. Big plot hole IMO.

There's also a theory that says you could travel at double the speed of light and return BEFORE you left. Space time is crazy. All theoretical though.

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You ever studied the Lorentz factor? It's some crazy stuff. Basically in a nutshell, if you travel faster than the speed of light, the space-time around you moves slower than the space time for you. So you could leave Earth travelling SUPER fast and only 10 years past for you, but 100 years past on Earth. That's basically what Einstein was talking about when he said time travel was possible.

I think it's funny how Star Trek doesn't deal with the time consequences of their "warp drive" technology. Big plot hole IMO.

There's also a theory that says you could travel at double the speed of light and return BEFORE you left. Space time is crazy. All theoretical though.

I've never read that, but I've read a lot of SciFi that deals with it... That actually deal with that issue in Star Trek the warp "bubble" negates that effect (somehow).

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I've never read that, but I've read a lot of SciFi that deals with it... That actually deal with that issue in Star Trek the warp "bubble" negates that effect (somehow).

Time is a human creation, relative only to us. To say that we could come up with ANYTHING to negate that means we have defied the basic laws of the universe (entropy)

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