If you could travel to the Andromeda Galaxy at the speed of light, you’d experience arriving there instantaneously and all your friends on Earth would instantly be dead - Upgoat

If you could travel to the Andromeda Galaxy at the speed of light, you’d experience arriving there instantaneously and all your friends on Earth would instantly be dead
submitted by Trope to ShowerThoughts 1 dayJun 13, 2025 01:27:31 ago (+3/-0) (ShowerThoughts)

As anything moving at the speed of light does not experience the passage of time. Andromeda being roughly 2.5 million light years away.

How depressing.

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[ - ] DukeofRaul 2 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 01:31:30 ago (+2/-0)

Dang

[ - ] JustALover 1 point 1 dayJun 13, 2025 03:56:28 ago (+1/-0)

You remember that do you had when you were small, but had to rehome because you moved somewhere? If it's been more than 15 years, that dog is definitely dead.

You'll never meet the dog again.

And he'd have been wondering, until the day he died, why your family threw him away.

[ + ] PeckerwoodPerry

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 08:14:07 ago (+0/-0)

I have a brother that did that as an adult. He had two dogs, a dachshund and a pitbull. He moved from South Florida to Boston to start his life over, dropped his dogs off at a shelter on the way out of town. He had the dogs for a good 5 years before that. The dachshund was probably adopted, but the pitbull probably didn't last 6 months. I find that shit reprehensible on many levels. It really says a lot about a person if they're willing to do that.

[ + ] puremadness

[ - ] puremadness 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 09:24:57 ago (+0/-0)

niggers do shit like that to their children

[ - ] QuestionEverything 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 08:11:54 ago (+0/-0)

Nope.

First, It's impossible for anything with mass to travel anywhere near the speed of light IN THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE. (Energy requirements are impossible).

So how do the space dudes travel around without relativity issues?
-They travel OUTSIDE the physical universe at FASTER than light speed. We've already figured out its quite possible and we have a good idea how to get something physical into that state..

But the navigation, propulsion and manner of exit is all just conjecture.

[ - ] Reunto 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 06:01:16 ago (+1/-1)

Has anyone considered the possibility that time dilation theory is wrong?

[ + ] puremadness

[ - ] puremadness 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 09:26:33 ago (+0/-0)

I think it all might be wrong.

We base 90% of science on unprovable foundations.

IF - Then - Else
but its all fucky and no ones testing

[ + ] Reunto

[ - ] Reunto 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 13:15:37 ago (+0/-0)

Eh, but some principles (especially practical science) have fewer assumptions and tend to be reliable for making predictions.

The closest we have to testing the concept of time dilation is atomic clocks on moving planes. You get higher radiation at higher altitudes that can affect electronics. And yet alternatives theories on atomic clock desync is never explored?

Einstein subscribed to the concept of time dilation, which is more the reason to be suspicious of it. A concept put on a pedestal instead of being appropriately scrutinized.

[ - ] UncleDoug 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 02:35:12 ago (+0/-0)

Or it would take 2.5M years at the speed of light to reach M31. It’s currently moving away at 110km p/s, but what speed will it be moving away from the Milky Way in 1M years? Will it even be achievable to reach it if it’s expanding away from our galaxy, if it’s then possibly expanding away faster then the speed of light from or departure point?

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 02:24:36 ago (+0/-0)

Omg, killing everyone on earth sounds AWESOME!

[ - ] __47__ 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 01:52:06 ago (+0/-0)

Doesn't just have to be there. Even in our own galaxy. As you leave you leave earth's time. You're on your own time then. If we were to ever travel the stars when you leave a planet it would be for keeps as far as family and friends go.

[ + ] Trope

[ - ] Trope [op] 1 point 1 dayJun 13, 2025 02:05:23 ago (+1/-0)

Looks like Proxima Centauri is only 4 light years away so not the best example.

[ - ] DukeofRaul 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 01:49:21 ago (+0/-0)

You all just dont get it

[ + ] Trope

[ - ] Trope [op] 0 points 1 dayJun 13, 2025 02:05:50 ago (+0/-0)

Crepes. Man. How long have you been staring at this post?

[ + ] lord_nougat

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 1 dayJun 13, 2025 02:25:18 ago (+1/-0)

Crepes are delicious.

[ + ] Drstrangestgov