This speed would take us a couple of months to reach the new discover planet with water
2007-04-30 00:17:30 · 17 answers · asked by matthew b 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
According to Einstein the universes speed limit is the speed of light and not greater.
Also the nearest planet that may support life as we know it, is 20 light years away and even at 3 times the speed of light that's almost 7 years.
2007-04-30 00:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're a little more optimistic than me about the pace of space exploration. I see you're more optimistic about longevity than me too. I'm a male in my 50s now and figure I've got a good shot at 30 years.more. So my horizon is around 2040. 1. Permanent robotic moonbase (but not inhabited on a permanent basis). 2. Solution to the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. 3. Tourism to orbit. 4. I'll take your FTL neutrinos. I'm very skeptical, but damn that would be cool. 5. Life discovered in our solar system. My money is on Saturn's moon Titan, which has something very odd going on on the surface, discovered by the Cassini space mission. Something in the methane lakes there is "breathing" hydrogen. 6. Commercial space industry overtaking government exploration. Perhaps some commercial presence on the moon, almost certainly in space stations. 7. Some consortium is building a space elevator, but might be taking 30 years to build it.
2016-05-17 07:42:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As mentioned we cannot go faster than the speed of light BUT when we get close to the speed of light time dilation kicks in so the journey will seem shorter to the astronaut - but not the viewer on earth.
At the moment there is no sustainable propulsion system to act at 1g for a a year to get close to the speed of light.
2007-04-30 01:18:58 · answer #3 · answered by welcome news 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The planet that was discovered last week does not have water.. About a month ago, they detected water in another planet which is a gas giant like Jupiter. We will never go faster than the speed of light.
2007-04-30 00:40:48 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even at the speed of light it will take more than 20 years to go 20 light years. Time has to be spent speeding up and slowing down at the other end. Better to take about 1000 years at a slower speed and place yourself in deep freeze for the trip.
2007-04-30 00:31:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is an outside possibility that in the distant future we may be able to use teleportation, or exotic particles, or some as yet undiscovered principle to achieve the speeds necessary for interstellar travel in human lifetimes. < 10% in the next 1000 years, is my estimate, but we went from the first aeroplanes to walking on the moon in around 60 years, so I'm hoping that I'm dead wrong on this!
2007-04-30 01:02:08 · answer #6 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Speed is not the pre requisite to space exploration by humans. The demands for and storage of fuel are to great. I believe that once we have mastered inter dimensional travel then the universe is ours.
2007-05-03 14:49:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are recent studies that the speed of light has in fact been changing. While this is still a new thing, this has wild implications all over the physics world. While this is still too new of research to be redoing everthing, I think it at least merits a mention on the page
2007-04-30 00:58:46 · answer #8 · answered by ANNETTE D 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Current thinking says NOTHING can exceed the speed of light.
Would be nice if someone could really invent a warp drive though.
2007-04-30 05:03:19 · answer #9 · answered by HeckZane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never in the human form we are now but who knows in the future maybe if we were broken up, look at the way we can send a photo by e-mail and then reassemble it the other end. Think that would be the only way!!
2007-04-30 00:44:39 · answer #10 · answered by Chris 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋