Yeah, are sentient beings made of light? They're probably made of, you know, matter! And how long it takes a spaceship of any sort to travel 1 light-year is a critical element here.
Star Trek speeds? (I think they go like 8 light-years an hour?) We'd be crawling with aliens. 10 years to go 1 light year? Not so much.
Well there's Sci-Fi ideas about FTL travel. Wormholes (natural or otherwise) to teleportation links (not natural!) to bending or warping space itself.
Those aren't estimates, they're "if this? then that" eh? The focus is on how many alien contacts we'd have by now.
If you wanted to travel 200 miles on Earth? How often would you go if you traveled 1 mile a second, a minute, an hour or a day? 1 mile a month = that's a once in a lifetime journey, round trip.
There's enough loose theory that we can send "simple" data back in time. Simple in this case being "existing, or not existing". Or in other words, 0, or 1. Binary code. An AI needs not travel linearly, in example, it could travel along a time axis as well as a space axis, in order to expedite getting where it needs to be... If there's something on the other side to recompile it. Which there isn't yet. But the moment that there IS, infinite visitor reality collapse is a worst-case-scenario, but more likely is faster-than-time travel of information only (so, an AI's programming/a mind-file-scanned "self"), but only for a singular binary code flow at a time per black hole.
Wut?
It takes light one year to travel one light-year, this is by definition what a light-year is.
Yeah, are sentient beings made of light? They're probably made of, you know, matter! And how long it takes a spaceship of any sort to travel 1 light-year is a critical element here.
Star Trek speeds? (I think they go like 8 light-years an hour?) We'd be crawling with aliens. 10 years to go 1 light year? Not so much.
The speed of light is the hard cap; we will never go faster.
All your estimates are way optimistic. It's more like 3-5 years for every lightyear, once everything is "perfected".
Well there's Sci-Fi ideas about FTL travel. Wormholes (natural or otherwise) to teleportation links (not natural!) to bending or warping space itself.
Those aren't estimates, they're "if this? then that" eh? The focus is on how many alien contacts we'd have by now.
If you wanted to travel 200 miles on Earth? How often would you go if you traveled 1 mile a second, a minute, an hour or a day? 1 mile a month = that's a once in a lifetime journey, round trip.
And your thinking is very linear, too.
There's enough loose theory that we can send "simple" data back in time. Simple in this case being "existing, or not existing". Or in other words, 0, or 1. Binary code. An AI needs not travel linearly, in example, it could travel along a time axis as well as a space axis, in order to expedite getting where it needs to be... If there's something on the other side to recompile it. Which there isn't yet. But the moment that there IS, infinite visitor reality collapse is a worst-case-scenario, but more likely is faster-than-time travel of information only (so, an AI's programming/a mind-file-scanned "self"), but only for a singular binary code flow at a time per black hole.
Then will simply increase the speed of light