{"id":930,"date":"2013-01-20T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T06:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/?page_id=930"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:31:10","slug":"puzzler-4-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/myp2-3-science\/term-3-puzzlers\/puzzler-4-space-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzler #4. Space Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The nearest star to the Earth is Alpha Centauri, which is about 4.3 light-years away.&nbsp; Assuming we can travel at the speed of light, what determines the amount of time you would need to reach the star?&nbsp; Hint it is not 4.3 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concepts involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>acceleration threshold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nearest star to the Earth is Alpha Centauri, which is about 4.3 light-years away.&nbsp; Assuming we can travel at the speed of light, what determines the amount of time you would need to reach the star?&nbsp; Hint it is not 4.3 years. Concepts involved:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2548,"parent":917,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-930","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Y7Kk-f0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/930\/revisions\/4138"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}