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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hear me out. It doesn't even matter that it's 96 billion light-years away if you're traveling at light speed. Because if you can travel at light speed, time would be frozen for you relative to earth time.

So if you're in a spaceship traveling at light speed to your destination, it would feel like you gotten there in an instant.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Also, due to length contraction, at light speed the universe isn’t 96 billion light years wide, it’s 0 anything wide.

At light speed there is no time and no distance, the origin is the destination. You won’t even experience a single tick of Planck time to get there. Instantaneous.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

AFAIK the observable universe is limited by the parts of space which expand faster than the speed of light.

Some billions of years later and we might have not seen other galaxies at all, maybe we are lucky.

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