I know that some people have issues with some of the stuff in Star Wars like the sound in space and physics stuff like that. No time dilation during space travel is another. That one isnt really a big deal for most because most people dont know about time dilation and what it is. Its proven that time and space are directly related and the faster you move through space the slower time moves for you. So if you took a trip to a system that was 100 light years away and returned in the span of a week, by the time you got back home hundreds or thousands of years would have passed by. Everyone you know would be long dead and everything might look alot different. In Star Wars there is no time dilation so charactes travel from one system to another with no difference in time from system to system. I love the hell out of Star Wars so I was more than willing to forget that traveling with no time dilation is physically impossible, or is it.
I was fortunate enough to catch the tail end of an interesting program, it was on National Geograpgic or Discovery, about UFOs and if they could realisticly work the way the do according to eye witness accounts over the years. The talked alot about the physics involved to explain some of the crazy maneuvers witnessed. And they talked about the limitations of deep space travel and time dilation.
According to some of these master physicists it is possible to travel without time dilation if there was a divice that could manipulate time and space. They explained how time/space was "mushy" and if it could be sped up in front of the craft and slowed behind the craft it could travel beyond the speed of light within the laws of phisics and return from a lightyears long trip with no time dilation. That to me was huge news.
Of course there is no such thing as a hyperdrive that can create such warping fields, and for us that kind of travel is impossible, but to know that the concept of traveling from one star system to another isnt outside the laws of physics is pretty damn cool. And it made sense to me how a hyperdrive could really work in the physical world. It made Star Wars that much cooler.
If Im mistaken at all about anything in this blog, please feel free to correct me or leave comments.