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There is hope for reaching the stars: at a constant acceleration of 1 g you could reach 0.9999c in 5 years of proper time, covering a distance of 83 light years

• idlewords 3y ago
  That's a great way to get cooked inside your rocket by blueshifted cosmic rays. You'll arrive at your destination ready to eat, a kind of cosmic jerky sent by the gods.
  • devwastaken 3y ago
    How does this work?
    • idlewords 3y ago
      Space is filled with cosmic rays, mostly protons, going in all directions. Most of them have energies under 10 GeV (99.6% c). But if you start racing through that flux at a very high speed yourself, their velocity relative to you will be boosted in the direction you're traveling, and you'll briefly see a high-energy particle beam coming through the windshield before your eyes are cooked. If you get going really, really, really fast, a similar thing happens with the blue-shifted cosmic microwave background.