Do you have any understanding of the interdimensional aspects of the travel we might be looking at?
A little bit.
Based on our known physics, it is theoretically possible to travel faster than light.
According to Einstein the speed of light is basically the speed limit of the universe for anything with mass.
But an Einstein Rosen theory says that it’s theoretically possible to travel through a worm hole which is basically two points of space connected by two different black holes.
And if we go a bit further in Star Trek physics lol you can also create your own black hole with enough energy to collapse a sun lol and tear a tunnel into space and time.
There are also many quantum aspects here which we humans haven’t figured out such as communication of two atoms in vast distances which is instantaneous and the fact that the future can affect the past based on the delayed quantum eraser experiment.
Nobody knows the underlying mechanisms of how this works and we’re lucky to have discovered it.
BUT as I know from practice during my life, there’s a BIG difference between theory and practice. Which is why all those things are nice theories which will remain theories until they become practical with proof.
For example the atomic bomb went from theory into practice.
So this means that there are a million other details which we have no clue about even IF we were able to create a wormhole to travel from here to the nearest star in 5 minutes.
Another fun aspect of the black hole is the aspect of the observer and the person going INTO the black hole.
Their experience is completely different.
If I travel into a black hole which does have a singularity and they’re not two connected black holes (in this scenario you’d be crushed to death into something called spagettification ) then the moment I cross the point of no return into the black hole gravity where even light can’t escape, you’d see me permanently frozen at the edge of the black hole forever.
But from my perspective I’d continue the journey until I hit the singularity of the black hole and I’d be crushed to death.
Another fun aspect of this is also the passing of time.
If you go with a ship and travel around a black hole for a week, 1000 years or more would have passed on earth and you wouldn’t recognize anybody when you come back home.
So inter-dimensional travel (where you beat space and time) is science fiction travel despite some of our best theories allowing for it.
And I don’t think these devices that we see are inter-dimensional. They seem to obey the same rules about physics that we know , if they are robots programmed by their version of AI.
Because an intelligent civilization can program a core chip, to travel through space, rebuilt itself with premium metals like titanium along the journey and then report back home through some quantum means maybe. And for all these machines know, their home civilization may be dead so they’re reporting home to nobody.
Bottom line, nobody knows anything. We only have theories.
Only God knows!