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[โ€“] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It'd be really interesting if time moves at different speeds in different bits of the galaxy, find out that none of the other solar systems have life because closer to the galactic center of someone dropped a teapot when the first life evolved on earth it still wouldn't have hit the floor.

Of course there's a lot of reasons this isn't the case but I dismiss them by saying they're all just an effect of distortion due to time variance.

Maybe we'll get s message from voyager saying 'arrived at a star 224 light years away, it was super quick because there's no time in the middle so you just skip that bit'

[โ€“] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 7 months ago

Similar to a solar system's habitable zone there exists (or is suspected to exist) a galactic habitable zone. I think because of cosmic rays and radiation. So I guess most habitable planets would have more or less the same time dilation.