Time to Andromeda
Part 2 of this article Traveling in an Expanding Universe Traveling throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, one can assume a flat universe. So we can assume only special relativity to calculate interstellar travel times for all observers 1. This time I want to expand our interstellar travel calculation to the universal scale. On the universal scale, the universe is not flat, however, but is expanding. We can approximate this expanding universe as a so-called flat Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker spacetime....