How Long Will It Really Take Us To Travel One Light Year
Close your eyes and let your mind drift into the quiet impossibility of interstellar distance. A gentle journey into what it would take to travel one light-year. At the speed of light, it would take one year. At Voyager 1's speed, it would take over 14,000 years. Even at 1% of light speed, the journey would span a century. The laws of physics set a hard limit: nothing with mass can reach the speed of light. The energy required would be infinite. Let the quiet acceptance of this cosmic limit carry you into a deep and restful sleep.
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