The Long-Term Future of Space Travel

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2005-09-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509268v2

Phys.Rev.D72:107302,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, minor changes to reflect version accepted to PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.72.107302

The fact that we apparently live in an accelerating universe places limitations on where humans might visit. If the current energy density of the universe is dominated by a cosmological constant, a rocket could reach a galaxy observed today at a redshift of 1.7 on a one-way journey or merely 0.65 on a round trip. Unfortunately these maximal trips are impractical as they require an infinite proper time to traverse. However, calculating the rocket trajectory in detail shows that a rocketeer could nearly reach such galaxies within a lifetime (a long lifetime admittedly -- about 100 years). For less negative values of $w$ the maximal redshift increases becoming infinite for $w\geq -1/3$.

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