In "Star Wars," hyperspace is accessed by a ship's hyperdrive. "Battlestar Galactica" is best at acknowledging the problem posed by physics to interstellar travel: its ships' aptly named "FTL drive" stands for faster-than-light travel. Nothing, so far as we know, can travel faster than ...
[00:56.24]travel faster than the speed of light. [00:59.72]Light can travel at about 300,000 kilometers in one second. [01:08.24]Physicist Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity [01:13.48]suggests that it is not ...
Fictional depictions of superluminal travel and the mechanisms of achieving it are also a staple of the science fiction genre. Travel In the context of this article, FTL is transmitting information or matter faster than c, a constant equal to the speed of light in a vacuum, 299,792,458 ...
Travelling faster than the speed of light is something that scientists and science-faction writers have dreamt about for a long time. In theory, if humans were able to do this, they could travel to distant planets in 1 matter of minutes. In Madeleine L'Engle's novel, A Wrinkle in Time,...
that are faster than the speed of light. They are also aware that light is the fastest travelling thing in the physical universe -- at least, as far as anyone has yet discovered. This represents a dilemma; what happens when you travel faster than the fastest physical thing in the universe...
Faster Than Light travel in Outsider is via "jump drive", which is a form of point-to-point hyperspace travel. A starship activates its jump field generator while on a vector from one star to another, and the ship is propelled into hyperspace, through which it travels (nearly) instantaneous...
doi:10.1111/jpcu.12844Margaret A. WeitekampJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdJournal of popular culture
Portals connecting far-distant regions of the universe may not be just the stuff of science fiction, but they probably couldn't be used for interstellar travel
Despite the hopes and assumptions of science fiction, real physics has for at least a century almost universally assumed that no genuine effect can ever propagate through physical space any faster than light. But is this actually true? We’re now in a position to analyze this in the...
I am going to give an answer of no, with I think is a measure of confidence. There are a number of reasons for this. For those who hold fast to dreams of Star Trek warp drives and science fiction ideas of faster than light travel this is not the answer you might want to hear, bu...