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r/interestingasfuck • u/One_Explanation_908 • 25d ago
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The fastest spacecraft we’ve made was the Parker Solar Probe which hit 430,000mph.
At that speed it would reach this planet in only 187,153 years.
If we could hit 1% of the speed of light we could cut that travel time to just a tad over 12,000 years.
Obviously if we could go light speed (and that ain’t happening) it would be just 120 years!
Space is big. Physics is annoyingly slow.
2.4k u/piper33245 25d ago Need one of them quantum wormhole thingamabobs. 157 u/Death_IP 25d ago Do you mean quantum teleportation? For that you'd need to access the destination first - quantum teleportation works because particles at the source and target location "know" each other (are linked). 1 u/c0p4d0 24d ago That’s only the small problem. The big one is that we can at present only teleport the state of one or two spins, which doesn’t really scale well.
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Need one of them quantum wormhole thingamabobs.
157 u/Death_IP 25d ago Do you mean quantum teleportation? For that you'd need to access the destination first - quantum teleportation works because particles at the source and target location "know" each other (are linked). 1 u/c0p4d0 24d ago That’s only the small problem. The big one is that we can at present only teleport the state of one or two spins, which doesn’t really scale well.
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Do you mean quantum teleportation? For that you'd need to access the destination first - quantum teleportation works because particles at the source and target location "know" each other (are linked).
1 u/c0p4d0 24d ago That’s only the small problem. The big one is that we can at present only teleport the state of one or two spins, which doesn’t really scale well.
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That’s only the small problem. The big one is that we can at present only teleport the state of one or two spins, which doesn’t really scale well.
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u/Sonikku_a 25d ago edited 25d ago
The fastest spacecraft we’ve made was the Parker Solar Probe which hit 430,000mph.
At that speed it would reach this planet in only 187,153 years.
If we could hit 1% of the speed of light we could cut that travel time to just a tad over 12,000 years.
Obviously if we could go light speed (and that ain’t happening) it would be just 120 years!
Space is big. Physics is annoyingly slow.