This Is What Hyperspace Travel Would Really Look Like

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Hundreds of sci-fi movies have depicted hyperspace travel, where stars appear as streaks of light as the spacecraft in question surges forward. But according to a team of physicists, that's bullshit—and hyperspace travel would look a whole lot fuzzier.

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[Adriaan]

Ha! I love this comment by Rolodex:

"I demand that the circular gradient tool in every image editing software immediately be renamed to 'hyperspace tool'."

Though more seriously, I think Cherryh has the best descriptions of hyperspace travel in her Company Wars & Compact Space books. She has generally avoided any discussion of frequency shift though it's certainly implied by her descriptions of time-shifted messages piling up in the incoming com channels of ships dropping out of jump.