Here is what I don't get guys, If you have that massive acceleration and exotic materials that affect Gravity, Why not Time dilation? All the forces are there for it to occur in theory,
Yes, This isn't a fact, But I fully believe the reasons they are so fast is a manipulation of relativity. They are using time dilation Because of this manipulation of the dilated time, They are experiencing time at a different speed than we do, What I am getting at is the energy they spend to travel that fast may not be that great and vast as we imagine, Using something like time dilation, They could move much faster than us, They would have more time to think and react, they would be in effect many times more intelligent because they literally had much more time to think and react than we do.
I'm just saying, Time dilation is pretty much a proven fact of sorts, We account for time dilation to make satellites function GPS data properly.
Maybe they are just leisurely cruising along at 55 mph and time dilation is the real method they use to travel so fast? so really over great distances, it wouldn't take as much energy. I don't know. I think I'm repeating myself at this point, I apologize guys.
Time dilation comes in two varieties.
When an object acquires velocity and momentum through spacetime, for example an accelerated rocket, time passes more slowly for the rocket and its occupants than time passes for the observer who remains in the rest frame - this is called special relativistic time dilation.
The other variety of time dilation is called gravitational time dilation. Time passes more slowly for an object that's within a gravitational field (or more technically, time passes more slowly for an object in a region of higher gravitational potential). So time passes more slowly for those of us on the surface of the Earth, than it passes for satellites in orbit.
The two most exciting things about the physics of gravitational field propulsion are 1.) there's no theoretical upper limit to transit speed - in principle you could travel much faster than the speed of light with this method...in fact there's no known upper limit on speed at all. And 2.) you could in theory travel to a star light-years away and return home in time for lunch - and there are no intrinsic time dilation effects for that journey, so if the trip takes 3 hours for the astronaut, then three hours have also passed back on Earth.
You could in theory make the same journey to a star in 3 hours using reaction propulsion like a rocket (if you could produce enough thrust and survive the acceleration forces) but many years would have passed on the Earth when you return.
So you can see the advantage of a gravitational field propulsion system: if you'd like to be able to travel halfway around the galaxy and come back to tell your friends about it, gravitational field propulsion is the only known theoretical method for doing that. With any other method, you could in theory make that journey, but everyone you knew when you left the Earth would have died of old age thousands of years ago by the time you return home.
But yes, aside from all that, once you can generate a powerful gravitational field through some new form of technology, then you can also produce time dilation effects for any reason you like. You could create a powerful uniform gravitational field inside of your craft, for example, so time is passing more slowly for you than it's passing for the observers outside of the craft, and like you said, that would allow you to think and function at a much higher speed relative to the people outside of your craft. And if somebody launched a guided missile at your craft, from your POV inside the craft it would be moving very slowly, and you'd have plenty of time to react and evade it. It wouldn't surprise me at all if AAVs have this capability, because we can see that they're using gravitational field propulsion, which means they have the capability to synthetically generate gravitational fields. It would make sense to use that same technology to manipulate time as well, for a variety of purposes.
It's also possible to use gravitational fields to make your craft larger on the inside than on the outside, like Dr. Who's Tardis. The magnitude of all of these effects depends entirely upon your technological capability to synthetically produce stronger gravitational fields. In theory you could fit New York City inside of a 30ft vehicle, and travel between galaxies in a matter of seconds, if you could technologically generate very powerful gravitational fields of both polarities.
I like what Dr. Knuth had to say at this conference about the viability of sub-light interstellar travel, but to me it's completely beside the point, because none of the craft we're seeing are using reaction propulsion (they aren't spewing huge magnitudes of mass-energy in order to accelerate) - they're using gravitational field propulsion. And the possibilities with that kind of technology are mind-boggling. So we should be talking about that instead.
I should also mention that with gravitational field propulsion, the people and equipment within the craft never feel any acceleration - to them it feels like standing still, even when the craft is zig-zagging across the sky at thousands of miles per hour, or leaping from a standstill to hypersonic velocity. That's another unique and very useful feature of this method of propulsion. And once the field is established, there's also no cost in energy to keep accelerating, other than whatever inefficiency losses are intrinsic to the technology you're using.