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Well I'm no expert, but the theory of relativity states that light is the only thing that doesn't move relative to another thing. For example, if you saw light passing you by while you were moving 200 m/h, it would appear to be moving at the same speed as if you were moving at 100 m/h. So theoretically, warp speed would be accomplished by moving faster than the speed of light, essentially moving faster than time itself. But Einstein's theory actually states that nothing can move faster than the speed of light, let alone at the speed of light. And so far this seems true; scientists have particle accelerators that have reached about 99.8% the speed of light, but never actually at speed.

So in short, Einstein's theory of relativity, specifically the second postulate, does not make warp speed possible. As a matter of fact, it makes it impossible.

But like I said, I'm not an expert in any way, so don't take any of this too seriously.

One way in which "warp speed" could be achieved is by the bending of space time, so if you "bent" the space-time continuum in front of you, jumped in, traveled a bit then unbent the space time, then you could theoretically be a lot farther than you had not been inside the bend in the continuum. I think.

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