Maximum7 said:
I’m trying to come up with a term to describe how time moves slower or faster in different places of a galaxy.
I've read a few stories with this premise, but the only term I can recall was "the slow" for our part of the universe, which has GR limits compared to the 'normal' universe the characters usually inhabited where GR did not apply. Needless to say, dropping into the slow was akin to being marooned on a desert island with just a volleyball for company.
Maximum7 said:
I’m trying to argue that Han limping to Bespin took “longer” than Luke training on Dagobah.
How exactly was Han traveling? It is possible - assuming warp drives were involved - that time within warp is different to time outside warp. That's a common sci-fi trope in stories and I've used it myself, though it is mind bending to keep all the time frames aligned. Which is probably where any discrepancy such as this in
Star Wars canon arises from. You need to keep in mind that multiple authors are writing books, screenplays, and anime over decades without an actual scientific framework to explain and constrain. They literally can make up whatever the hell they like, so Author A in book A has a plot imperative that Author F in movie F does not:
- Know about
- Care about
- Needs to contradict for their plot.
Take your pick, but it is unlikely - I'd say impossible - to keep every aspect consistent, esp. when readers such as yourself are pouring over them with forensic fervor, unpicking loose threads. Richard Morgan released his three brilliant Takeshi Kovacs novels over three years and it was not until I read them back-to-back recently that I noticed a number of timeline elements did not line up. I'm not sure why that happened but suspect it's just because, as I've found, it is
really hard to keep every little item aligned across multiple novels set decades apart.
Maximum7 said:
Their is proof that my theory might actually hold water...Luke felt that he had been on Ach-To far longer than he actually had in The Last Jedi.
That's clearly not a reliable guide on which to base a theory. As
@Klystron pointed out, the mechanics of writing mandate this type of 'feeling' be expressed as such, either overtly as you shift across multiple PoVs, or explicitly to convey the emotional state of the characters. Writing such intricate insights without making the prose a sequence of mundane exclamations of "he thought", "she said" is the essence of the art of penmanship and when done well, it elevates the book from just readable to literary black hole that inexorably captures your attention.
Finally,
Star Wars has very little physics as we know it. Without wanting to sound glib, let your imagination run riot, because, surely, that was Lucas's whole point in the first place. And that's coming from someone old enough to have been blown away by the groundbreaking first movie as a teenager. He promised a sci-fi epic and boy, did he deliver!
I meant “proof” in-universe. Forget it. I’ve been informed time does not behave this way. Good day.
