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triffid_hunter t1_j7vd6pd wrote

> Now if an object is lets say 200 light years away, would it take 200 (Earth years) to travel to said object?

It would take 200 years for photons or other massless particles (eg gravity waves) to travel from there to here or vice versa - but it would take a manmade spaceship hundreds to thousands of millenia because we don't have yet any rocket engines efficient enough to get there faster.

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