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At what speed would you experience a year when traveling a light-year?

Asked by davidgro (609points) August 5th, 2010

I know that due to time dilation, when traveling very close to the speed of light, you would experience less than a year of time to travel one light-year of distance, (You’d feel no time at all if you could travel At the speed of light)

Of course when traveling well under the speed of light you would feel it taking more than a year to get that far.

So, somewhere close, but not too close, to the speed of light there must be a speed where you would experience one year to travel a light-year (or a second to go a light-second, etc.)
Of course from the perspective of the people you left at home you would be taking more than a year, since your speed is under that of light.
I don’t know what math is involved, so I can’t figure it out myself, but I’m curious just what that speed is (say as a fraction of C)

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