The Real Reason Interstellar Travel Is Impossible - The 25 Trillion Mile Gap
🌌 "The nearest star is 25 trillion miles away. With our fastest rockets, it would take over 100,000 years to get there."This is the 25 trillion mile gap. Even at 36,000 mph, Voyager 1 would need 40,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri [citation:7][citation:8]. Generation ships—floating cities for hundreds of generations—are the only physically possible option [citation:1][citation:6]. Relativistic speeds require more energy than the Sun produces in a thousand years [citation:7]. Faster-than-light travel is not just hard—it's likely forbidden by the laws of physics [citation:7][citation:8]. The…
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