Dark Power: Scientists suspect aliens using Black Hole

Originally posted by jkrog08

But yea, I was incorrect as a lightyear is the time it takes light to travel over a one year period, as you said.

Although that "universal constant of c" is now under major scrutiny, as it now appears under certain high energy conditions it has been tested and show that c (so far) can be accelerated to four times c!.

Another issue is the near proof that spacetime is expanding, so under normal conditions yes, lightspeed is the fastest possible speed(in REAL space).

BUT, under certain other conditions and especially when it has been nearly proven that space itself is expanding faster than c, there is no limit to how fast SPACE can expand, only how fast (under most lower energy conditions) light can travel through spacetime.

We still have a lot to learn, but those aforementioned theories, postulates, and observations will lead to major revisions in Einsteins field equations IMHO.

So as of now the most logical, promising, and likely method to achieve FTL is to utilize manipulating expanding space, thus Einsteins laws become of no concern when traveling out of real space. There is going to be A LOT of great breakthroughs in the next 50 years at most IMHO.