OT: Handwavium-low methods of FTL travel?

[Glyn]

Narf, what you need is some cheesy science!

Like the Cheese Engine it runs on cheese. It instantly displaces the ship further along it vector of travel based on the amount of cheese infused into its core. A rat’s next of complex components. It was invented by pinky the brain.

[jeffel]

One thing I haven't seen mentioned (or not directly) is the Alcubierre drive

It is the closest thing to non-hand-wavey that I know of.

It still requires the ability to manipulate "strange" matter, so there is a decent amount of hand waving. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to violate General Relativity, so there is a bonus there.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

jeffel said:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned (or not directly) is the Alcubierre drive

It is the closest thing to non-hand-wavey that I know of.

It still requires the ability to manipulate "strange" matter, so there is a decent amount of hand waving. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to violate General Relativity, so there is a bonus there.

That sounds like acceptable hand-waving. However, my math is a little weak to be following the formulas they have - What are the energy requirements like?

Let's see if I got this right - Basically, the drive pulls space from the front of the ship to the back of the ship?

[Suicide Junkie]

jeffel said:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned (or not directly) is the Alcubierre drive

It is the closest thing to non-hand-wavey that I know of.

Its main problem is the inability to control it from the inside.
So you pretty much have to have a slinger and stopper base at both ends of your trip.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

About how difficult would it be to hand-wave that restriction away?

(Cause otherwise, interstellar warfare would be near-impossible.)