How Long Will It Take To Travel 50 Light Years?

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Suny Day Profile
Suny Day answered
Ha ha.
It depends on how fast you go.
If your rate of speed is about the same as the big powerful rockets that put satellites in orbit around the earth you will be going about 40,000 kilometers per hour (25,000 miles/hour).
At that rate it will take almost 400-years.
If you could go half as fast as light it would take 100-years.
If you could go as fast as light it would only take 50-years.
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Anonymous
Anonymous commented
Thanks, i did not realize a light year was relative to light speed that way my wife asked me and i couldn't answer it for her. By the way that is how far away the white dwarf star is. Its a solid diamond, so they say as big as the earth and has the mass of the sun, fun little fact. I guess nobody will get there hands on it any time soon
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Anonymous answered
It depends on a lot of factors, for instance the most probable way would be use constant acceleration to maintain gravity on the ship. If you assume an acceleration rate to keep the ship at 1g then it would take 51 years from the point of view of people left on earth but it would only take 7.7 years from the point of view of a person on the ship. Whichever way you choose to go you have to factor in time dilation due to your speed.
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Steven Vakula answered
50 years at the speed of light.
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Anonymous commented
Thanks now i think it was a dumb question I guess that is why they have this website.
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Anonymous answered
It will take 678,4859 year
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Kristin perry answered

It relies on upon a great deal of components, for example the most plausible way would be utilize consistent increasing speed to keep up gravity on the boat. Whichever way you decide to go you need to calculate time expansion because of you're speed.

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