It sounds like something from 'Star Trek,' traveling faster than the speed of light. Is it possible to make Einstein’s theory of special relativity a reality and find a loophole in the universal speed limit? The speed of light is considered the standard for measuring distances in space and how long travel  would take, but that only applies to things moving through space, not space itself.
Worm holes are thought to be a way to travel through space to the other side of the galaxy, but worm holes are thought to be unstable at best. In comes ‘warp drive,’ instead of moving through space, you move the fabric of space itself. Warp drive is still a far in the future technology, but has been explored, in theory, in various papers and studies.  The fabric of time is actually bent to make warp speed possible. Instead of traveling to the other side of our galaxy, we could bend space to make it come to us.

The possibility of traveling at the speed of light or even warp speed has a lot of road bumps. For one, the human body, with current technology, isn’t made to cope with that type of speed. The biggest concern is the amount interstellar hydrogen in the universe. The density is fairly low and a space ship could travel though them like a car grill though bugs but, the hydrogen atoms would come at a ship with such high energy, it would penetrate it and irradiate the astronauts. The levels of radiation would be fatal and sufficient shielding isn’t possible with the technology currently available. Scientist will continue working on what’s possible and what’s not in space travel and maybe one day warp travel will be a reality. Beam me up Scotty!

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