OT: Handwavium-low methods of FTL travel?

[Cipher7071]

I've heard a theory that says a black hole may actually be an opening into a different (perhaps separate) part of the universe. If that's true, all we need to figure out is how to keep from being crushed out of existence during the passage.

[Parasite]

Gravity waves are expected to travel at the speed of light. We have not yet successfully detected them, but the detectors we have build are not sensitive enough to detect the largest gravity waves we think exist.

While this includes a lot of handwavium, it is still a possibility that they could travel at faster than light and we could end up using them to power a ship.

We could just use Brin's Epacharch and "believe" reality away. "Beleive we could go faster than light and it will happen. Those people that claim to come from out there, I mean how do we know... They might be right.

[Puke]

gravity is currently expected to propogate at FTL speeds by about half the scientific community. There is currently a large divide on the topic, and a great deal of experimentation being done.

The experiments show conclusively that there is relativistic effect acting, but they are ambiguous to the point that the reasearchers havent decided WHICH relativistic effect is acting.

[NullAshton]

Yeah, gravity follows the light speed rule too. Of all the things found so far, we haven't found anything that allows you to send information or matter faster than the speed of light. You can make wormholes and move it at lightspeed to your target, but that's not really going FTL. You're just altering spacetime.

[Renegade 13]

NullAshton said:
Yeah, gravity follows the light speed rule too.

That seems to be an inaccurate statement. It hasn't been proven either way how fast gravity propagates. Hell, we don't even know what works to transmit gravity, or even why mass and gravity go hand in hand.