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  • I mean, the superluminal travel was kind of the point. If you take warp drive to mean something that warps spacetime then just about everything is a warp drive.

    And if the point is to get your own time slowed down then simple acceleration will do the trick as well.

    I once calculated that if you were able to constantly accelerate at a leisurely 9.81 m/s² you would approach lightspeed in about a year. At that point time would slow down so much for you that you’d cross light years in literally the blink of an eye. Take another year to slow down at -9.81 m/s² and you would be able to reach just about any point in the universe (that hasn’t left our horizon) in about 2 years. Everyone you knew would just be dead for thousands of years.

    Just gotta solve that small problem of an energy source.