Hi. The question is: How many Astronomical Units could you travel in 1 minute at 5000 times the speed of light?
Is this math correct?
186,000 miles x 60 seconds = 11,160,000 miles per minute.
1 AU = 93,000,000 miles.
11,160,000 miles per minute x 5000 = 55,800,000,000 miles per minute.
55,800,000,000/93,000,000= 600 AU per minute.
The math is good. Using your heavily rounded values of course.
But the idea of “5000 times the speed of light” is nonsense until you start invoking worm holes, warp drives, or other features of science fiction, not science.
's not nonsense, it’s theoretical.
Thanks LSLGuy
I don’t really trust my math skills so I wanted to double check.
Don’t worry, it is just for a home-brewed Space-opera RPG game that I am DMing later today.
If this was homework, I’d correct it to:
186,000 miles per second x 60 seconds per minute = 11,160,000 miles per minute.
It’s always good to keep units explicitly part of the equation, as a way to check things.
Thanks for the correction Quercus .