{"id":111824,"date":"2020-08-23T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/this-nasa-animation-shows-what-its-really-like-to-travel-close-to-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2020-08-23T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:03:35","slug":"this-nasa-animation-shows-what-its-really-like-to-travel-close-to-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/this-nasa-animation-shows-what-its-really-like-to-travel-close-to-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"This NASA Animation Shows What It\u2019s Really Like to Travel Close to The Speed of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l4u4wV_dOi0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a fan of science fiction, chances are you encountered a few franchises where humanity has spread throughout the known Universe. The ships that allow them to do this, maybe they use a warp drive, maybe they \u201cfold space,\u201d maybe have a faster-than-light (FTL) or \u201cjump\u201d drive.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a cool idea, the thought of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/139215\/pros-and-cons-of-various-methods-of-interstellar-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">going interstellar<\/a>!\u201d Unfortunately, the immutable laws of physics tell us that this is simply not possible.<\/p>\n<p>However, the physics that govern our Universe do allow for travel that is close to the speed of light, even though getting to that speed would require a tremendous amount of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a fan of science fiction, chances are you encountered a few franchises where humanity has spread throughout the known Universe. The ships that allow them to do this, maybe they use a warp drive, maybe they \u201cfold space,\u201d maybe have a faster-than-light (FTL) or \u201cjump\u201d drive. It\u2019s a cool idea, the thought of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}