Warp drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The basic idea of warp drive is its capacity to travel several times faster than "the speed of light" through a process by which the matter surrounding the vessel's exterior is literally warped in order to make the universe smaller in its projection and larger in its wake. So Krypton being located 27 lightyears away would not require Superman's pod to traverse the myriad galaxies for 27 years. Say he was a newborn when put into the device. If the vessel traveled at a rate of 9 lightyears per Julian year (our calendar year), he would be about three years old by the time he reached our galaxy. Of course, I'm just eye-shifting here.