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I had a thought while I was on Quora on Saturday regarding a question if Star Wars is capable of faster than light travel.

Throughout many sci-fi media, they talk about going to light speed. And as you know if they only went to light speed, it would takes years to decades to even reach a nearby system.

Let alone going point five past light speed, or even going to ludicrous speed:

youtu.be/NAWL8ejf2nM

Then I got thinking about how the speed of light is constant, but how fast does time itself move along time ago in a galaxy far, far away?

As a ship approaches the speed of light, time slows down. But if one second passes on the ship at light speed and an hour passes on Earth, from the crew's perspective, they're travelling at 3600 times the speed of light, or warp 11.67 on TNG's, "All Good Things...." even though they're only travelling at light speed.

On Miller's planet from Interstellar (2014), it's so close to a black hole that every hour there, 7 years pass on Earth. Which brings forth the question that if the speed of light were to be measured on Miller's planet, would it still be 299792.458km/s as on Earth, or would it be along the lines of say 18,383,273,542.56km/s?

And if the latter, could there be a galaxy where time runs uber slow where from their perspective, light travels at the TNG, "All Good Things...." equivalent to warp 27.3?

Obviously there couldn't because that galaxy, if it's the same age as ours, from our perspectives would be 835 trillion years old. Albeit if a supermassive, uber time dilating black hole formed in the centre of their galaxy that substantially slowed down time....

I digress.

But let's say their flow of time is much slower, and the speed of light is much, MUCH faster from their point of view:

youtu.be/pSOBeD1GC_Y

Then with a much faster light speed rate, they can reach another star system in time for lunch, and would be the same lunch time on the destination planet as well without using millions of tonnes of sci-fi jargon to explain it all.

Plus it gets around the FTL communication issues, and allows for Starkiller Base to wipe out all of those planets.

But if Earth were in that galaxy, it would still take the Discovery 1 from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 18 months to reach Jupiter. But they would have near real time communication. So instead of seven minutes, try seven milliseconds.

youtu.be/BDha7nj4s10

If a solar sailing ship somehow maintains 1G continuously, then reaching Vulcan 16 LYs away would take almost 8 years instead of 17 because light speed there is that fast.

In some ways, it's like the opposite of the Voyager episode, "Blink of an Eye," but on a galactic scale.

Right now, I'm musing at the idea of either the Imperial fleet or the First Order entering the heart of the Federation via wormhole say a light year from Proxima Centauri, and they find it's going to take them 5 years to reach Earth. By that time, every ship in the Federation would intercept them.

As to hyperspace or hyperdrive, let's say they have a -- lacking a better term -- anti-gravity wave "bomb" that can temporarily accelerate a ship to light speed, and hyperspace and gravity waves coincide somehow. And they need to keep detonating anti-gravity waves to maintain light speed.

But it's just a thought of a little trick of getting around the light speed limit in another galaxy. Here, it's an uber limiting factor. In the Star Wars galaxy, not so much. I have watched EckhartsLadder over inconsistencies with hyperspace, hyperdrives, hyperspace lanes, etc. If you ask me, they're worse off than the most inconsistent Star Trek.

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I had a thought while I was on Quora on Saturday regarding a question if Star Wars is capable of faster than light travel.

Throughout many sci-fi media, they talk about going to light speed. And as you know if they only went to light speed, it would takes years to decades to even reach a nearby system.

Let alone going point five past light speed, or even going to ludicrous speed:

youtu.be/NAWL8ejf2nM

Then I got thinking about how the speed of light is constant, but how fast does time itself move along time ago in a galaxy far, far away?

As a ship approaches the speed of light, time slows down. But if one second passes on the ship at light speed and an hour passes on Earth, from the crew's perspective, they're travelling at 3600 times the speed of light, or warp 11.67 on TNG's, "All Good Things...." even though they're only travelling at light speed.

On Miller's planet from Interstellar (2014), it's so close to a black hole that every hour there, 7 years pass on Earth. Which brings forth the question that if the speed of light were to be measured on Miller's planet, would it still be 299792.458km/s as on Earth, or would it be along the lines of say 18,383,273,542.56km/s?

And if the latter, could there be a galaxy where time runs uber slow where from their perspective, light travels at the TNG, "All Good Things...." equivalent to warp 27.3?

Obviously there couldn't because that galaxy, if it's the same age as ours, from our perspectives would be 835 trillion years old. Albeit if a supermassive, uber time dilating black hole formed in the centre of their galaxy that substantially slowed down time....

I digress.

But let's say their flow of time is much slower, and the speed of light is much, MUCH faster from their point of view:

youtu.be/pSOBeD1GC_Y

Then with a much faster light speed rate, they can reach another star system in time for lunch, and would be the same lunch time on the destination planet as well without using millions of tonnes of sci-fi jargon to explain it all.

Plus it gets around the FTL communication issues, and allows for Starkiller Base to wipe out all of those planets.

But if Earth were in that galaxy, it would still take the Discovery 1 from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 18 months to reach Jupiter. But they would have near real time communication. So instead of seven minutes, try seven milliseconds.

youtu.be/BDha7nj4s10

If a solar sailing ship somehow maintains 1G continuously, then reaching Vulcan 16 LYs away would take almost 8 years instead of 17 because light speed there is that fast.

In some ways, it's like the opposite of the Voyager episode, "Blink of an Eye," but on a galactic scale.

Right now, I'm musing at the idea of either the Imperial fleet or the First Order entering the heart of the Federation via wormhole say a light year from Proxima Centauri, and they find it's going to take them 5 years to reach Earth. By that time, every ship in the Federation would intercept them.

As to hyperspace or hyperdrive, let's say they have a -- lacking a better term -- anti-gravity wave "bomb" that can temporarily accelerate a ship to light speed, and hyperspace and gravity waves coincide somehow. And they need to keep detonating anti-gravity waves to maintain light speed.

But it's just a thought of a little trick of getting around the light speed limit in another galaxy. Here, it's an uber limiting factor. In the Star Wars galaxy, not so much. I have watched EckhartsLadder over inconsistencies with hyperspace, hyperdrives, hyperspace lanes, etc. If you ask me, they're worse off than the most inconsistent Star Trek.