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Very fidgety, the fat lady next to him. Gripping the armrests tightly, every once in a while she would jerk her head a bit to one side or the other, for no clear reason. It was obviously her first trip, and you could tell from the blank look on her face, blank but strained, uncertain.
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1 parsec ≈ 3.26 light-years.
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c ≈ 299,800 km/s is the speed of light.
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The distances contract by a factor γ = (1 − β 2)−1/2, where β = v/c. In the case considered here, β = 0.995, so we will have γ ≈ 10.01.
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Or any other particles with null mass.
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Villata, M. (2017). Very Fidgety, the Fat Lady Next to Him. In: The Dark Arrow of Time. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67486-5_1
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