Using our current engineering science , it would take 180,000 years to reach Zarmina . But our resident physicist Dave Goldberg has a more affirmative estimate – thanks to antimatter and time dilatation , astronauts could get there in just a few years .
Dave bet that , if we could build a stellar drive that get down its fuel from matter - antimatter burst , then it would be possible to journey to Zarmina at 92 % the speed of light . Since the planet is about 20 idle - years aside , that means the spaceship would get there in 22.4 year as far as missionary post control back on Earth is concerned , but thanks to such serious clock time dilation at such near - light speed , it would only be 6.1 years for the cosmonaut on board . All this take on the ship would speed ( and then decelerate ) at Earth gravity throughout its voyage to give the astronaut a little quilt .
All that sound pretty astonishingly realizable , but we ’re not out of the forest yet . To carry all the fuel necessary for such a journey , the ship ’s fuel stores would have to be at least 530 metre as massive as everything else on gameboard the ship . That is n’t exactly unimaginable , but let ’s just say we ’re going to have to jump up a few point onthe Kardashev scalebefore we can badly project on channelize to this second Earth .
For a more arrant explanation of Dave ’s math , check out his Emily Post atA User ’s Guide to the Universe . For a rather less optimistic view on traveling to Zarmina , mark outDiscoblog .
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