So what is a wormhole? If you love sci-fi films then chances are that you’ve seen the famous folded paper explanation. “By entering hyperspace, a starship could take advantage of the wrinkles in the fabric of realspace to reduce journey time significantly, “jumping” from a specific point to another point without having to travel directly between them.” Even though “Star Wars” may be science fiction (in the space opera genre), the logic behind hyperspace and the hyperdrive touches upon some of our own scientific theories, primarily wormholes. In “Star Wars” this is known as traveling through hyperspace and the only way to travel through hyperspace is to have a ship equipped with a hyperdrive. To get around this, “Star Wars” and many other films use warp speed travel. Some could argue for theoretical tachyon particles or quantum entanglement but as far as observable travel goes, light is the peak of what we know.

But here is the conundrum when traveling faster than the speed of light…you can’t. Even if we could reach the speed of light, the ability to traverse even our own galaxy would be a daunting task.

In the real world, interstellar travel is something that’s not possible in the near future. In the “Star Wars” universe we’re in an entirely different realm of travel than the real world. Making the jump to light speed to enter hyperspace…

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