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Arc of The Immortals: Light Drives
Two Kinds of Light Drives & The One Principle Left Out by Most Science-Fiction Stories /Plus More
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Two Kinds of Light-Speed Travel
Faster-Than-Light Drives are about folding space. In principle — the curvature of spacetime folds over on itself. The fold creates a bridge. The ship can travel from one spot to another in the blink of an eye.
The second kind of Light Speed Drive is tunneling through space or the hyperspace drive. Space folds to make a tunnel where a ship travels close to the speed of light without exceeding it.
The speed of light is a constant in and outside the realms of science fiction.
FTL drives and light-speed tunneling/hyperspace flies in the face of general relativity.
All crew on Star Trek, Star Wars, or Battlestar Galactica use warp drive, hyperspace drive, (light tunneling), or FTL faster than light drive. It’s never explained how they return to their home worlds with no difference in age. The people on Earth will most likely be dead or old aged. General Relativity is ignored. The Enterprise crew returning to Earth after her five-year mission — everyone they knew would be dead by the laws of general relativity.
Battlestar Galactica uses an FTL Faster-Than-Light drive, as does Star Trek — Discovery uses the “black drive” an FTL drive. If the crew members on either vessel were to return home they would be much younger than they were when they left. This screws with my head — big time. Besides breaking the speed limit of light, faster-than-light travel would force all those on board to become younger. They would be younger compared to the people on their home worlds if the people they knew were even alive.
Fixing Time
The Mu uses “Differential Compensators” for their FTL. The “Differential Compensators” used to adjust time changes for light drives. Mainly for hyperspace (light tunneling travel) and FTL faster-than-light drive. A standard of time relative to their home world adjusted constantly aboard light-drive vessels. The only film that accurately shows how the relativity principle applies to time is…
