It's Space Travel, Jim...

...but not as we know it.

In this month's issue there are a couple of pages devoted to Warp Science.
Apparently 'negative energy' would form a bubble around a space-ship which would then compress space in front and expand space behind.
How they would do this is unknown.
How they would produce an effect outside the bubble is unknown.

Frankly I think that essentially moving the universe is a non-starter.

But it made me think; space can expand 'faster' than light(as there is nothing, null, to which it is relative).

So what you do is create a plug of space behind the ship while removing a plug from in front.

This could be done discretely, or else 'in a limit' so that smooth motion is achieved.

This would not require all the energy in the universe, and would not alter space except locally.

Creating and destroying space around the ship would probably require a greater understanding of gravity, since the only naturally occuring localised destruction of space that I know of is in a 'Black Hole'.


My theory doesn't have much in common with those of the Physicists, but then I'm one of those dreadfully impractical practical people.

I'd love to hear thoughts on this.