As far as some news about faster than light travel, refer to: http://xkcd.com/955/
As far as some news about faster than light travel, refer to: http://xkcd.com/955/
"assume the spacecraft heads out towards Alpha Centauri and has a conventional propulsion system capable of reaching 0.1c. The spacecraft initiates a boost field with a value of 100 which acts on the initial velocity resulting in an apparent speed of 10c. The spacecraft will make it to Alpha Centauri in 0.43 years as measured by an earth observer and an observer in the flat space-time volume encapsulated by the warp bubble. "
Maybe someone much better with maths and physics can answer this: will the 0.1c speed have a noticable relativistic age-slowing effect for the travelers compared to their Earth-bound friends?
[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+dialation+at+.1c