Why Interstellar Travel Is Physically Impossible _ The Barrier the Universe Built
Close your eyes and let your mind drift into the quiet impossibility of reaching the stars. A gentle journey into the barriers the universe has built against interstellar travel. The distances alone are staggering: even at Voyager's speed, reaching our nearest neighbor would take 75,000 years [citation:12]. Traveling at significant fractions of light speed would turn every speck of dust into a bomb [citation:4]. The energy required is beyond imagination—some proposed starships would need power equivalent to all the energy produced on Earth in a year, multiplied by thousands [citation:7]…
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