The Real Star Wars

It's engrained in all of our memories, the blur of lights which signaled a ships hyper drive activation. Massive Star Destroyers, Tantive IV's, and even Death Stars traveling entire galaxies in no time at all. I know it sounds impossible for modern human technology to allow us to traverse the universe that quickly, right? The answer to this question is not as straight forward as yes and no, because it is both.

t^'=t√(1-(V^2/c^2 ))

t' = time experienced

t = stationary time

V = absolute velocity

c= speed of light (2.998*10^8 m/s)

The equation above relates one of the core arguments expresed in Albert Einstein's "Theory of Special Relativity". It postulates that as the speed of light is approached and a constant velocity is established, the time that the individual traveling this fast will perceive no time to pass. This means that that individual does not age the same way that the rest of the individuals in the universe age, and can travel thousands of light years in a single blink of an eye. In order to simplify this concept, the main points of this theory have been simplified into a story about two twins. In this story, one of the twins leaves earth on a journey at the speed of light which takes a total of thirty light years to complete. Upon returning to earth, the twin who had left earth at light speed appears markedly younger, by thirty years exactly, than the one who remained on earth. This is due to the fact that the twin traveling at light speed experienced no time pass at all while the twin on earth experienced thirty years pass. Below, I've inserted a video which further explains this idea of time dilation and it's implication to the universal expansion of the human race.