Is Interstellar Travel Possible? (Time Dilation & The Speed of Light)
Can we travel at light speed? We teamed up with Popular Science to find out! Like this video? Tweet us!: http://twitter.com/thoughtcafe Welcome to Thought Café +, an collaborative animated...
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How will humans colonize the stars beyond our own solar system?Research in space travel has only recently begun to tackle this problem. But almost 100 years ago,Albert Einstein made some revolutionary claims about the types of challengesthat await those who travel at high speeds across the cosmos.Particularly with regards to the way they experienced time.While most people view time as a constant,Einstein's special theory of relativity proved that the passage of time is affected by howfast an object moves relative to its surroundings.The faster one travels through space, the more one's perception of time changes.This phenomenon is called: time dilation.If an astronaut can travel at close to the speed of light, time will pass much more slowly for her.When ...
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How will humans colonize the stars beyond our own solar system?Research in space travel has only recently begun to tackle this problem. But almost 100 years ago,Albert Einstein made some revolutionary claims about the types of challengesthat await those who travel at high speeds across the cosmos.Particularly with regards to the way they experienced time.While most people view time as a constant,Einstein's special theory of relativity proved that the passage of time is affected by howfast an object moves relative to its surroundings.The faster one travels through space, the more one's perception of time changes.This phenomenon is called: time dilation.If an astronaut can travel at close to the speed of light, time will pass much more slowly for her.When ...
