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zwily | 8 months ago

Read up on time dilation and special relativity. Time absolutely does pass slower for you as you accelerate.

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IAmBroom|8 months ago

You two are talking about different meanings of "time".

Traveling 5,000 LY at 0.5 c will cause you the spaceship pilot to age 20,000 years. It's non-relativistic, inside that inertial frame. Clock second hands still sweep slow but noticeable circles.

Meanwhile, everyone outside of the spaceship is happening FAST, by your observations. You'll see stars turn red and go supernova.

mr_toad|8 months ago

The journey will take 10,000 years for an external stationary observer and about 8695 years for the pilot.