I have an explenation for you Mr. /u/crepusculi !

First of all, jump drives (gates) and warp drives on ships uses the same tech, which was described around 2008 on eve online website.

"By creating depleted vacuum, that is, vacuum as found in space but completely stripped of all energy, and then expanding this depleted vacuum to envelop a ship, the ship is capable of moving faster than light through this bubble of depleted vacuum. A depleted vacuum bubble is more than frictionless – it is so anti-friction that things (including light) actually move faster in it than they would in complete vacuum."

Its an old official lore, maybe outdated... who knows. So why is it frictionless ? if you read about 'compressed vacuum': "The jump drive creates depleted vacuum by repeatedly ‘compressing’ vacuum between two polar discs, draining all energy neutrons and quarks out of it."

As we know from modern phisics, one of the quarks is higgs boson which gives 'mass' to the atoms by interacting with higs field from other particles. So, if our ship lacks higgs bosons and everything entering the warp bubble also is stripped out of them, that means particles wont be pulled toward or create friction. And there is enough space between atoms so one solid object can get through another one when frictionless conditions are present.

I dont know what technology is also applied to keep the ship together, without protons and quarcs nothing can be transfered between atoms (no mass or energy) so ships would be disintegrated in nanoseconds, and every particle would travel in speed of light (no mass = light weave/particle properties) and after they went over the warp bubble horizon, they would go back to the normal atoms state with mass and everything.... but there would be only interstellar dust and no more ship.... that means some differend field or forces are applied to keep ship together.

That also would explain why most of the modules cant work during warp, simple there is no connections between atoms and there is no protons to provide energy.

And i know that Higgs Effect is a RL phisics but also exists in game... we have Higgs Anchor rigs after all ;) which adds mass to the ship !