• seaQueue@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Uh, no shit? That’s how light works once you’re able to travel at relativistic speeds - communication over interstellar distances using light is going to take ages.

    Even within our own solar system interplanetary travel will have significant communication time delays.

    Edit: also, we already know that matter and light can’t exceed c, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we discover that other forces (gravitation, or another that we haven’t understood yet) can transmit information at speeds >c. I wouldn’t be surprised if we turned to quantum entanglement for instantaneous communication over extreme distances either.

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    9 months ago

    This is why Jesus invented ‘two cans and a piece of string’.

    Dammit, I’m not even a trained physicist but I still have to do all the thinking around here.