The spaceship isn't traveling near the speed of light. It's traveling a normal spaceship speed. It's just warping space in front of it. So that instead of going A-B-C-D-E. It's just going A-E.
It's like bending the earth so that New York City is suddenly next to Nashville. You can go from Music Row to Broadway and Back in an hour, without ever going over 60.
Okay, thanks.
That sort of makes sense....kind of mind bending too!
Ok, but what happens to everybody and everything between NYC and Nashville. There has to be some consequence to bending space.
But what if you do that while I'm bending it to get from Cincinnati to Myrtle Beach?
Who wins?