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https://phys.org/news/2022-02-ultraprecise-atomic-clock-poised-physics.html
@sonhouse saidA TIMEX ?
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-ultraprecise-atomic-clock-poised-physics.html
@sonhouse said"Interstellar" is one of my favorite movies. Dad goes out to find habitable planets in the unverse, and returns 90 years later to find his daughter on her deathbed, even though he's only aged a year.
@Kevin-Eleven
There have been dozens of sci fi stories based on the idea of establishing an interstellar civilization in spite of the speed of light, so they all go close to c and financial institutions are formed to stop someone from depositing a few hundred bucks in a bank account and coming back 200 years later expecting to get all that interest so they remove that incen ...[text shortened]... , so the majority will never see land.
The " book of the Long Sun' by Gene Wolfe is one of those.