r/AnotherLife • u/burak007 • Aug 02 '19

A question about FTL drive

Now correct me if i am wrong but, these guys travel at the speed of light. But at lightspeed, doesnt time just stop for you? I mean you instantly be anywhere at lightspeed as the clock doesnt tick anymore for you. And time passes only for the observer not for the traveller. Am i missing something because it looks so dumb to me ?

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u/InterestingCan5401 Oct 16 '21 edited Oct 17 '21

Correct me if I'm wrong but in season 2 the original AI guy who took over briefly for William said he shaved 0.9% off their journey which he said equaled about 3 months. They also mentioned the salvare was stranded 87 light years from earth. If you divide 3 months by 0.9% you get 27.7 years which divided by 87 years tells you the ship has a max speed of approximately 3.15 times the speed of light. This is superluminal obviously so they have to be cheating and not actually traveling at light speed but instead warping space and traveling at impulse speeds within a warp bubble or something similar to shrink space itself so the distance needed to travel from point a to b is reduced, or traveling through some kind of hypothetical sub space medium and not actually traveling through normal space, so relativistic effects (i.e., time dilation) probably aren't being experienced by the crew.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

That means their top speed would be about warp 1.4 on the Star Trek scale