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You can accelerate continuously at a comfortable 1g and get to 0.5c in about 5 months. G forces are not the issue.


The Lorentz factor at 0.5 c is 0.86 so this only reduces your proper travel time by about 15%. Even at 0.9c the LF is only 0.43, so it would still take you 2 years just to get to Proxima Centauri. And as you approach c, 1G acceleration speeds you less and less. And you also have to slow down at your destination.


Not to mention that you also have to survive any collisions with specks of dust in between.




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