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Furthering the subtle "time: does it exist or not?" thread of the past couple of days, enjoy this fascinating article discussing the lengths a stellar traveler could reach using fantasized future technologies.

If one were to travel far out to the edge of the universe, travelling at a smidge under lightspeed, it would take 30-50 years to get as far as one logically could reach. They could make it back just in time to reach the end of their lives, theoretically. However, due to relativity, the time that would have passed here on earth over this lifetime would be an astounding 70 BILLION YEARS. The sun would be burnt out, and humans and life as we know it would be long, long, loooong gone.