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Answer by g s for How would time dilate for pioneers travelling to Alpha...

A little bit more than 4.2 years. For any large time dilation factor, the astronauts spend most of the journey very close to the speed of light in the Earth frame, so you don't need to do a hard...

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How would time dilate for pioneers travelling to Alpha Centauri Cb?

Re: Relative Velocity Time Dilation:Pioneers have travelled 4.2 light years to Alpha Centauri Cb in 9 months. Handwavium tech can transport mass in this timeframe. Upon their arrival to Cb, they are 9...

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Answer by Cem Kalyoncu for How would time dilate for pioneers travelling to...

I am not sure if I follow other answers. Let's ignore time dilation before we hit the desired travel speed for simplicity.At 3g acceleration and deceleration we can reach the speed of light in 4...

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Answer by N. Virgo for How would time dilate for pioneers travelling to Alpha...

Assuming you have inertial dampeners or functional equivalent, so that we don't need to worry about squishing the squishy humans as in g s's answer, there's an easy way to do the calculation. It looks...

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