News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The horizon problem for faster than light travel by amelius on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:41PM (#30017064)
> Near light-speed travel will allow a person to go anywhere instantaneously

Only if you ignore the enormous acceleration/deceleration forces needed for this.

Re:The horizon problem for faster than light travel by cedricd on Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:59PM (#30018257)
Surprisingly it's not that much. At a constant 1G acceleration you could travel across the galaxy (100k light years) in 12 years (from your reference frame)[0].

I definitely agree that such travel would require enormous amounts of energy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_under_constant_ac...

Re:The horizon problem for faster than light travel by sgjohnson on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:32AM (#30021199)
also, "instantaneously" is a stretch on a galactic scale. 299792000 m/s isn't as fast as it sounds if you need to cross the entire galaxy.

Time dilation doesn't matter here.