Calculating Time Dilation in Space Travel with Python
The faster you move, the slower time goes relative to an obvserver. As you approach the speed of light, those effects can become massive, and hard to wrap your head around. I have recently been reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and a long space journey where time dilation comes into play is part of the plot. It got me thinking if we could use Python to calculate the dilation effects exactly for various journeys....