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The ship would have to be big to carry a huge amount of fuel,
這艘飛船必須能夠裝載足夠的燃料
enough to accelerate it to nearly the speed of light.
以供其接近光速行駛
Getting to just beneath the cosmic speed limit
要使飛船無限接近宇宙極速
would require six whole years at full power.
需要全功率加速運行長達六年
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The initial acceleration would be gentle
由于飛船龐大而笨重
because the ship would be so big and heavy.
起始加速度會很慢
But gradually it would pick up speed and
但會逐漸加速
soon would be covering massive distances.
很快就能航行很遠的距離
In just one week, it would have reached the outer planets,
只需一周，就能到達帶外行星
gas giants like Neptune.
如海王星一樣的氣體巨行星
After two years, it would reach half light
兩年后，它將加速到光速的一半
speed and be far outside our solar system.
并早已航行到太陽系外很遠的地方
Two years later,
再過兩年
it would be traveling at 90% of the speed of
速度將會增加到光速的90%
light speed and passing our closet star system, Alpha Centauri.
并掠過離我們最近的半人馬座阿爾法星系
Around 30 trillion miles away from the earth,
在遠離地球30萬億英里之外
4 years since launch,
自發射起4年后
the ship begins to travel in time.
飛船開始了時間旅行
For every hour of time on the ship, two hours pass on earth,
飛船上一小時，相當于地球上兩小時
a similar situation to the spaceship
和環繞特大質量黑洞飛行的
that orbited the massive black hole.
宇宙飛船是同樣道理
But there's more to come.
但好戲還在后頭
