Because it'd probably be better for you at the end of your journey if everyone you ever knew hadn't died of old age, including your great grand relatives. If you just want to go to the future, you can do that. But if you'd like to travel large distances at great speed without losing everyone you care about, then warp will help with that because you will age at the same rate as those you've left behind, and everything will be as expected when you return.
> and everything will be as expected when you return
Either what I said is completely wrong, or this is completely wrong. I think it is the latter.
You experiencing time dilation doesn’t make it so when you get to your destination, people have aged more. It makes it so you have aged less.
If the round trip takes 2 years from the perspective of an external stationary observer, because it is a round trip of like, 0.9 light years in both directions,
Then by the time you get back, people have aged 2 years.
Removing the time dilation in the ship just makes is so the people on the ship also aged 2 years instead of less than that.
That’s not really helpful.
Unless you can go faster than c, you can’t go 50 light years away and come back to people having aged less than 100 years. If you did, you would have gone faster than c. Basically by definition of speed?
Maursault|4 years ago
drdeca|4 years ago
Either what I said is completely wrong, or this is completely wrong. I think it is the latter.
You experiencing time dilation doesn’t make it so when you get to your destination, people have aged more. It makes it so you have aged less. If the round trip takes 2 years from the perspective of an external stationary observer, because it is a round trip of like, 0.9 light years in both directions, Then by the time you get back, people have aged 2 years. Removing the time dilation in the ship just makes is so the people on the ship also aged 2 years instead of less than that.
That’s not really helpful.
Unless you can go faster than c, you can’t go 50 light years away and come back to people having aged less than 100 years. If you did, you would have gone faster than c. Basically by definition of speed?