Faster-than-light

Faster-than-light, aka superluminal, space travel was not discovered until centuries later.

The new sci-fi franchise, The Expanse, fascinates me, although I have seen only snippets of it in videos and writing. It reinforces my tendency to think that humanity will spend a long time, centuries, within the Solar System. Travel outside the Sun's peripheries will be difficult, as faster-than-light travel seems impossible with current science. Travelling at the speed of light to the nearest star system, the triple-star Alpha Centauri, would take more than four years if it were possible.

Would faster-than-light travel be possible in the future? We know that in current science, it seems impossible. There are possible workarounds like folding spacetime itself. The Japanese-American physicist Michio Kaku advocates teleportation.

If you are interested in the theory about tachyons, maybe read the document "Possibility of Faster-Than-Light Particles" by G. Feinberg.

Faster-than-light drives use element zero cores to reduce the mass of a ship, allowing higher rates of acceleration. This effectively raises the speed of light within the mass effect field, allowing high speed travel with negligible relativistic time dilation effects.