I have read a lot of Asimov, and I don't think he suggested anything like that.
You could say that the ship was moving at a fraction of lightspeed and 878 days was relativistic time inside the ship. The problem with that is that you would have to assume that at least 50.000 years had passed for the Empire while the ship arrived at destination, and I don't think the way the series is going it looks like that much time passed, but maybe I'm wrong.
Another option is that the ship has an Alcubierre warp drive. This doesn't require jumping, and it's theoretically feasible within the existing physics framework.
A third option is that the ship is using wormholes, that are in many ways equivalent to jumping.
I don't remember Asimov stories with warp drives or wormholes, but I could be wrong.
@Maria White you're totally right and you made excellent points, all of them. Lightspeed limit is one of the scientific data Asimov always pointed out as unbreakable, and he spent a lot of ink each time he proposed jumping in order to justify it. In fact, in the books he wrote about several jumps between Synnax and Trantor... Maybe the showrunners will say a word about this in a non relativistic future.
Or, otherwise, maybe they just flown on the season's 8 GOT crows... They were also ultra lightspeed devices 😅
I have read a lot of Asimov, and I don't think he suggested anything like that.
You could say that the ship was moving at a fraction of lightspeed and 878 days was relativistic time inside the ship. The problem with that is that you would have to assume that at least 50.000 years had passed for the Empire while the ship arrived at destination, and I don't think the way the series is going it looks like that much time passed, but maybe I'm wrong.
Another option is that the ship has an Alcubierre warp drive. This doesn't require jumping, and it's theoretically feasible within the existing physics framework.
A third option is that the ship is using wormholes, that are in many ways equivalent to jumping.
I don't remember Asimov stories with warp drives or wormholes, but I could be wrong.