They ask David how far away Phaelon is and the screen prints 560 light years. They ask how long did it take to get there, the screen shows 2.2 solar hours.
That doesn't make any sense.
Even if the ship was traveling at near light speed, it would take more than 560 years (with respect to Earth) to go to Phaelon and another +560 years to get back to Earth.
Did the ship use a wormhole or was it going faster than the speed of light?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091059/board/nest/89783277#195140570
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There's nothing that suggests the ship traveled at c all the way to Phaelon, and for the sake of interstellar distances it most certainly wouldn't. As David was only gone for 4.4 solar hours, the most likely trajectory was that the ship took him a fair distance from Earth at very close to c for 2.2 hours (for reference: Neptune is 4 light hours from Earth), hence the time dilation, and then instigated a wormhole jump to Phaelon. And did the same thing on the way back.
shareI suppose so.
But in the movie, there is no mention of wormhole by the scientists. One of them says "Einstein's light theory!".
Know what I mean?
That was only to explain why David was gone for 8 years but only aged 4.4 hours. It wasn't to explain where he went and how he got there.
shareNo. David travelled faster than the speed of light. The Enterprise does it all the time. "Give me Warp 10 Scotty". You can't go anywhere reasonable without warp drive. The closest star is 4 ly from here.
Also, in the big scheme of things, 560 light years is very close, and it is unreasonable that there would be no star charts of that region. You would still be in the Milky Way galaxy as it's about 100,000 light years in diameter..
Most unique celestial objects are millions of ly away.
Seems we found Phaelon a few years ago..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/kepler-space-telescope-spies-a-mega-earth/2014/06/02/b73cf006-e8e7-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html?utm_term=.ac284f5d5d7d
Crazy!