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According to Einstein?s theory of relativity, nothing can
travel faster than light, and nearing light would require
near-infinite amounts of energy. However, what would happen
if the laws of relativity were bent.
Science fiction often plays the roles of faster-than-light
starships that cross light-years in mere seconds. These novels
have their beautiful Warp Drives, and Hyper Drives, and other
exotic forms of propulsion, but what is the physics behind
these writings?
The Physics of faster-than-light travel are very
possible, even in our slower-than-light dictated world. Such
drives and concepts of would be Wormholes, Hyperspace
(sometimes referred to as Fluidic Space). Most interstellar
drive concepts arise for the idea of warping space, or traveling
to a layer (or a completely different universe) where relativity
and other laws are not present.
The question is, are these methods of travel possible,
and if so are they practical?
The possibility of something is never known until it is tried;
hypoothetically, say someone finds a way to travel
inter-dimensionally between the four known dimensions and
the other theoretical dimensions. A traveler to one of these
dimensions could easily walk into a gateway, and walk out
another without going very far in the higher dimension,
however return into normal space-time, have traveled
thousands, if not millions of light-years.
Still though, is such travel practical, in theory yes, in
economic most likely not. Inter-dimensional would most likely
require terra-watts of power just to open a one-way trip. We
would most likely need to be an antimatter-matter powered
society for any such travel to be practical.
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I would call such ideas possibly possible versus very possible. Things like worm holes, tachyons and negative mass are purely theoretical constructs that have never been observed. It's good to keep an eye on these sorts of phenomenon just in case a low energy means to exploit them shows up but they are not a reliable roadmap to future drive technologies.
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