so this has been bugging me since i was a kid
basically, everything travels 300 000km/h through both space and time at once. if we travel faster through space, we travel slower through time, meaning time passes faster for the observer
so imagine this scenario. you are in a ship that can travel at light speed if it wants to, and you need to reach something thats exactly 1 light year away. so from your perspective, it will obviously be the best to travel at max speed and get there in a year
but! imagine theres a device at the end of your trip that loses fuel as time passes. you need to get to it as fast as you can. so if you go too slow, the device will lose fuel before you get there, but if you go to fast, you will travel through time much more than space and from the perspective of that device, too much time will have passed even though it took you 1 year, yes
? so is there some sweet spot speed you should go at, or just the faster the better?
its okay if you dont understand the question, neither do i
but i need some input
edit:
i mean if space and time are simply 1:1 on that total speed thing, then i guess the best possible speed would be 300000km/h divided by square root of 2, but i assume its not that simple now is it
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This post was edited by Snyft2 on Jul 28 2022 02:34pm