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Originally Posted by CraigS
Bringing this back on track again (apologies for my outburst .. gotta get Carl when he's down, eh ?) .. what bugs me is that the fastest Ultra-High energy cosmic ray detected was travelling at something like 0.99c and it is believed to most likely be a proton .. to give some feel for it ...
.. so if a proton can achieve these velocities .. then its currently not impossible for matter to achieve sufficient speed to make the trip feasible.
Cheers
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Hardly
Yes, possible, but not feasible using present technology or any extrapolation of it. To propel a craft weighing one ton to the same speed would require more energy than the entire US uses in several thousand years. Well, at least that's the theory and what the maths tells you.