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SPOILERS - Star Wars The Force Awakens Discussion and Overanalysis
sitnspin:
Which is why you either have to bend space or shift to a different plane of existence where distances are reduced. Interstellar travel by necessity would have to involve reducing the distance traveled since even at the speed of light travel would to 100s or 1000s of years.
Method of Madness:
Right, that's my point. They can't travel FTL, but they don't need to because hyperspace.
sitnspin:
The problem is that they actually reference going to light speed or past it in the movies. Which can be handwaved as poor scripting by persons who don't understand how physics works, of course.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: something I made up ---Han Solo: I wasn't there for you when I should have been, and for that I'm sorry. But I'm still your father, and I love you.
Kylo Ren: I know (stabs)
--- End quote ---
BenRG:
In RL physics, there is no mathematical reason why an object can't travel faster than light (there is even some disputed evidence that there is a particle that travels faster than light and backwards in time, the Tachyon). The trick is accelerating past light-speed, which General Relativity specifies requires infinite energy. Most sci-fi either hand-waves it off or comes up with a tech-babble work-around.
Star Trek has an entire chapter in the show bible dedicated to the subject. Star Wars just chooses the hand-wave route and focusses instead on character interactions and action scenes.
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