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We still haven't established whether some form of warp drive is doable or not. Even if you can't move faster than light, if you can distort spacetime around yourself sufficiently in the right way, you can maybe get a functionally-similar effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
That's the problem though. While antimatter exists, which has negative mass, it exists only in small amounts, and you'd have to have a massive amount of it to accomplish such a feat. We'd need to find a way to create it.
And don't get me started on the other problematic aspects of it, like space debris.
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