pdpi 4 days ago

> would just zoom it all in a minute,

The Earth is about 8 light-minutes away from the Sun :)

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  • barrenko 4 days ago

    I am not liking this fact.

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    • justusthane 4 days ago

      The sun could have exploded seven and a half minutes ago and we’d have no idea! Enjoy the next 30 seconds of your life.

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scraft 4 days ago

Well, if you were traveling at light speed you could move anywhere in the universe instantly. If you are an observer on earth, watching an object move away from you at the speed of light, then it will take a very long time to traverse the tiniest regions of the universe.

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  • Reubachi 4 days ago

    Er, "instant" here is "relativistic instant."

    even in a vaccum, light speed travel from the travelers POV still takes time, and said traveler would perceive time passing exactly as occurring in that local space. But yes you're totally correct, the observer on earth would in this time see only the briefest part of my journey's trail due to light from my journey taking "exponentially" longer to travel back to the observer.

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