Would be a nice thing, because atomic bombs wouldn't work at all. According to E=mc^2, the energy which would come out of a atomic fission would be hardly measurable.
Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
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#282looks like ur high
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
> “At 99.999% C, the traveler would take ~11,000 years to arrive to Andromeda.” So presumably this means 11k years from an earth point of view? But the traveler would still be alive and a very short time would have passed for him?
Nope! Far, far longer. I don’t know the specifics that the GP used but Andromeda is about 2,500,000ly away. An observer on Earth must perceive you as taking more than 2,500,000 years to get there, as you would have to have exceeded the speed of light to arrive any sooner. At 1g of constant acceleration you can reach Andromeda in just under 15 years of experienced time. An observer on Earth will perceive you as having…
So the question becomes where does the 11k come in? It was just wrong?