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Could use such a ship as a time machine (well, that only goes one way).


The Forever War novels have this as a key plot point, if you're interested in that sort of thing.


The whole Ender's game series also uses this as a plot device.


Not to mention the comic is pretty good as well!


My comfy chair is a one-way time machine.


Best thing is that it works in real time. No need to futz with fancy formulas. Just wait long enough and bam you're in the future.


Do you mean that someone in the space ship could, without extending their own lifespan beyond what is already expected, use the space ship to "travel" to Earth's distant future?


Precisely. That's the famous Twin "paradox" (which is not a paradox)


Kip Thorne said it's theoretically possible. One end of the wormhole is on earth, the other is on the spaceship. Then you fly the spaceship and hop into the wormhole and arrive into the future on Earth.


You don't even need the wormhole. You just accelerate away to relativistic speeds then turn around and come back. It doesn't matter which direction you're going, just that you're going _fast_.


obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/209/




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