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Is humanity forever c-ucked by the speed limit of light?


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Is humanity forever c-ucked by the speed limit of light?
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>>7785345
Nice try
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No.
1. Find a way past it (insert sci-fi hyperspace /underspace here).
2. Humanity transfers conciousness (insert clone/computer here)
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>>7785345
What if wormholes?
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From anyone else's perspective, yes. From the perspective of a spaceship, no.
>go 0.99 c
>the universe whizzes past you at 0.99 c
>but because length contraction is a thing that exists, the universe seems compressed to 0.44 it's original size, and after less than two years of travel, you stop at a nearby star (proxima centaury), and look back at earth, now over 4 light years away.
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>>7785345
While we can't accelerate past the speed of light there is nothing stopping us from making the distance we need to go smaller.
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