"Ian Witham" <ian### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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| If you've jumped to hyperspace how much faster do you need to get? Is there
| a range of faster than light speeds for cleaner than clean space ships?  I
| would have thought such a twist in the space-time would bring you to your
| destination at the same instant you leave -- but in star-wars they entered
| hyperspace and then had time to sit around playing chess, practising light
| sabre duelling, drinking coffee etc.  Perhaps this is because the Millennium
| falcon was such a grubby thing.  It looks as though the clean spaceship vs.
| dirty spaceship debate has been thrown wide open.

It was just a science-fiction movie  :-)  I don't think George Lucas had a PhD
or anything, or did he?
Seen the movie Lost in Space?  They go through the Sun in hyperspace,
similarly like the Millennium Falcon slowing to sub-light speed into planet
debri at one point.  Like nothing is there during the hyperspace travel.  Pure
speculation I guess, even if theories exist to allow for such possibilities.
The main thing is a sort of invisibility at the atomic level I suppose.  So
that means no drag forces in the usual sense, the entire craft would be
subjected not just the exterior.

Bob

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