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There is no evidence whatsoever that something like that will happen. What is it about the operation of any hyperdrive that would cause the universe to explode? Certainly there are different ideas floating around as the whether on not faster than light travel is possible, but none of them suggest that if it is possible, that the destruction of the universe will result if the technology is mastered.

As to the idea that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, there are (may be) "shortcuts" in spacetime which, when used, can make it appear that something has travelled faster than the speed of light. There is more to this, but it is carried under the heading of faster-than-light travel and not the "exploding universe" asked about here.

One little problem with travelling faster than light is that no matter how it is achieved it is then, in principle, possible to travel backwards in time - which leads to difficult problems if you decide to change your own past. It would seem fairly obvious that you won't be able to, in fact you arrival in the past has already happened. However it is much, much harder to guess what actually stops you changing things. So if supraluminal travel is invented there will be contradictions in the universe. Whether the universe can be self-contradictory is another matter, but if, as we all assume, it can't, then presumablyfaster-than-light travel will only be possible in limited circumstances.

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