What If You Traveled at the Speed of Light?

What if you traveled at the speed of light? You'd reach the Moon in 1.3 seconds, catch Voyager 1 in a single day... and every minute you spend out there costs the people you love 100 minutes back home. In this story, Stelvo gets light speed overnight. He skips dentist visits, laps the planet for fun, gets a very expensive speeding ticket in Finland, and is chosen for the Proxima Run: the first trip to another star. Then, just past the Moon, he sees a rock heading for his hometown. The nearest star... or a city at its windows? Along the way: real time dilation, the 1971 atomic clocks that flew around the world, the laser mirror Apollo 11 left on the Moon, Voyager 1 reaching one light-day from Earth on November 18, 2026, and what really happened in Chelyabinsk in 2013. Would you have turned around? Tell me in the comments. #WhatIf #SpeedOfLight #TimeDilation #Space #Stelvo