Posted by: DEUCE MORELLI
Posted by: Omega Gamma
Old age.
Isn't there some theory about space travel that by traveling at light speed or faster, the effects of time dilation mean that at some point, what is a week in space travel ends up being like 2 weeks on earth?
So if it holds, and Master Chief has traveled thousands of light years from Earth, by the time he's old enough to retire, Earth and Reach will be rebuilt, The Covenant and Earth will be allies and Andromeda and the Milky Way will have collided and merged to form a super galaxy, right?Ugh, what? That makes no sense. Yes, the theory of relativity holds that mass and speed both contort space time, but at what point did Master Chief, and the twisted wreckage of a primitive ship he travelled in travel at light speed? At what point did he come near a singularity? The portal sends objects through slipspace, it doesn't send them at FTL speeds in this universe, and I highly doubt that the wreckage of the Dawn could attain any significantly time-dilating velocity. The fact that he's far from Earth is meaningless, there is no distortion in space time to make his aging significantly slower.