Slybacon Posted August 6, 2013 Happy Bday mate. I hope your still producing some awesome tracks. Have a good one! Sly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bogfrog Posted August 7, 2013 Happy birthday Ballzac, hope u have a awesome day! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ballzac Posted August 7, 2013 Thanks guys I hope your still producing some awesome tracks. Ah, hobbies...I remember them. Perhaps I'll have some time for stuff like that if I ever finish my studies Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThunderIdeal Posted August 7, 2013 (edited) happy day! don't squander your juicy brain on hobbies man!@#$! if you must squander it then answer my simple question which i can't word properly for google. if you travel a light year at say half the speed of light, how much do you age eg how much earth time passes on your spaceship? just a short answer will do i can contemplate the rest myself. cuz i'm wondering precisely how much awesomeness it would be to commence some time-consuming work on a slow-moving rock like earth, for instance, ask a computer to solve a riddle. on earth you would die of old age before the riddle is ever solved, or before the brain-immortality-machine can be manufactured, etc, so you life a highly eventful (heh. sarcasm.) life zipping around space and come back to earth 200 years later. seems like a good way to get the better of time. Edited August 7, 2013 by ThunderIdeal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alice Posted August 7, 2013 Happy birthday Ballzac 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yawning Man Posted August 8, 2013 Happy Birthday brother. Hope you had a good day and are well! Peace Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ballzac Posted August 8, 2013 happy day! don't squander your juicy brain on hobbies man!@#$! if you must squander it then answer my simple question which i can't word properly for google. if you travel a light year at say half the speed of light, how much do you age eg how much earth time passes on your spaceship? just a short answer will do i can contemplate the rest myself. cuz i'm wondering precisely how much awesomeness it would be to commence some time-consuming work on a slow-moving rock like earth, for instance, ask a computer to solve a riddle. on earth you would die of old age before the riddle is ever solved, or before the brain-immortality-machine can be manufactured, etc, so you life a highly eventful (heh. sarcasm.) life zipping around space and come back to earth 200 years later. seems like a good way to get the better of time. (Ship time)/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) = Earth Time For half the speed of light 1 Ship year ~= 1.155 Earth years so you'd have to zip around space for about 173 years for 200 years to pass on Earth. But, this increases significantly as you increase speed, so at 90% the speed of light, you would only wait 87 years. At 99% light speed, it's 28 years. At 99.99% the speed of light, it's 2.8 years. Better build a faster ship Happy Birthday brother. Hope you had a good day and are well! Peace Cheers, I'd say we should catch up soon, but we never get around to it 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ballzac Posted August 8, 2013 happy day! don't squander your juicy brain on hobbies man!@#$! if you must squander it then answer my simple question which i can't word properly for google. if you travel a light year at say half the speed of light, how much do you age eg how much earth time passes on your spaceship? just a short answer will do i can contemplate the rest myself. cuz i'm wondering precisely how much awesomeness it would be to commence some time-consuming work on a slow-moving rock like earth, for instance, ask a computer to solve a riddle. on earth you would die of old age before the riddle is ever solved, or before the brain-immortality-machine can be manufactured, etc, so you life a highly eventful (heh. sarcasm.) life zipping around space and come back to earth 200 years later. seems like a good way to get the better of time. Just realised I didn't actually answer the question, lol. So... I'm assuming you mean 1 light year proper distance. i.e. 1 light year between two points from a frame of reference in which those points are stationary. At half the speed of light, you would travel this distance in two Earth years, and would age 1.73 years on the ship. Just for interest's sake, if you travel for 1.73 years at half the speed of light, you travel 0.86 light years, so the distance traveled that you measure from onboard the ship is shorter than that measured from Earth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites