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It takes a looooooooooooooooooooooooong time! You're at "1g" when you're just sittin' around - 1g being 1x of the force of gravity. So at 1g, you're not really accelerating at all.

Lets do the math and start with 1 g equal to 32 feet per second. Light speed equals 186,000 miles per second. It will take approximately 78 years to reach light speed.

But there seems to be an error in these calculations! 32 feet per second is NOT an acceleration, but a constant velocity, so after 78 years you would still be at 32 ft per second!!! The term 1-G refers to the constant acceleration of EARTH gravity, that is 32 ft per second (squared) at sea level!!!!!! Now at that acceleration it would take about 51.7 weeks to reach light speed, that is if I used the acceleration calculator correctly. Good question though!

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