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Originally Posted by **********
No, that's not it. This is basically faster than light travel, but without the time effects that Einstein talked about.
Normally travelling near the speed of light slows time down for the traveller, but by compression space instead, time inside the space ship remains unaffected. So say, 2 weeks of travel time for the space ship would equal 2 weeks of time on earth too. No time travel, no paradoxes, no traveller aging slower than his earth-bound brother, etc.
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Adultmobile disagrees, he says either the space travelers inside the bubble age say 100 years in 10 minutes of warp speed travel time OR it's the people down on earth who would age 100 years while the space travelers only 10 minutes.
"Let me talk of the time issue: to do this vacuum engineering, even if you really can make it happen (and stable space and gravity inside the bubble, so no one is smashed by acceleration or so), you have most probably to alter time, more in detail have time clock different in the bubble than outside. Create a time-slowed (or time-turbo) condition inside the bubble where spaceship to be for a "while" within such a temporally-modified field. So when returned to the normal space, spaceship astronauts will experience "missing time", much like Planet of the Apes (1960's movie) or most likely vice-versa: time outside was slowed down to blocked, so the spaceship move faster-than-light... for 10 minutes in outside-world time, but inside the ship that was 10 or 100 years time! So you transferred super-luminal warp speed (10 minutes instead of 100 years), but the side effect of the trick it is: you're receiving the elder children of austronauts, even if after just 10 minutes of our time. This may be still good to transfer robots or minerals, but not so much the lifeforms - either planet of the apes effect, or the inverse effect - a warp sailor would never find own wife and friends after the warp, as either him or the people outside died of natural elderness."