Einstein, Relativity & Spacetime!

Science Fact or Fiction?38• Do the theories of relativity prohibit interstellar travel?• we can not travel faster than the speed of light (c)!• but what if we made the distance to our destination shorter?• We might tunnel throughhyperspace in a wormhole.• A wormhole connects twodistant points in the Universe.• Or perhaps we could warpspacetime so that twolocations of our choosingcould touch momentarily.• None of these ideas is prohibited by our current understanding of physics.• Most scientists are pessimistic about the possibilities.• wormholes would also make time travel possible, with its severe paradoxes• For the moment, the Universe is safe for science fiction writers!