So perhaps some unique geometry of mass or exotic form of energy can manipulate a bubble of space-time so that it moves faster than light-speed, and carries any objects within it along for the ride.

"If we find some way to alter the properties of space-time in an imbalanced fashion, so behind the spacecraft it's doing one thing and in front of it it's doing something else, will then space-time push on the object or person and move it?".
Already some studies have claimed to find possible signatures of moving space-time. For example, scientists rotated super-cold rings in a lab. They found that still gyroscopes placed above the rings seem to think they themselves are rotating simply because of the presence of the spinning rings beneath. The researchers postulated that the ultra-cold rings were somehow dragging space-time, and the gyroscope was detecting the effect.

Other studies found that the region between two parallel uncharged metal plates seems to have less energy than the surrounding space. Scientists have termed this a kind of "negative energy," which might be just the thing needed to move space-time.

The catch is that massive amounts of this negative energy would probably be required to warp space-time enough to transport a bubble faster than light speed. Huge breakthroughs will be needed not just in propulsion but in energy. Some experts think harnessing the mysterious force called dark energy — thought to power the acceleration of the universe's expansion — could provide the key.

Warphole as produced in lab-conditions by Einstein.

Even though it's a far cry between these preliminary lab results and actual warp drives, some physicists are optimistic.

"We still don't even know if those things are possible or impossible, but at least we've progressed far enough to where there are things that we can actually research to chip away at the unknowns, even if they turn out to be impossible, by asking these questions, we're likely to discover things that otherwise we might overlook."

Gust Costers - editor in chief.

Too good to be true: the planet Minerva.

Just as our Sun has a dead twin, likewise our Earth has a twin (some call it the planet Minerva) that shares her orbit and is placed so exactly opposite the Earth that it can never be seen. Theories about the Earth's twin, which does exist, have been around for decades. They emerged because of the observed perturbations of the planets. This twin is close enough, within our Solar System, to be visible by the reflected rays from the Sun, if it were not hidden behind the Sun. That the twin matches pace with the Earth is not by coincidence. During the period when the Earth was knocked out of her initial orbit by a clash, the Earth found an orbital niche around the Sun that was appropriate for her size and composition, a niche, not surprisingly, that the twin likewise fits. Why do these matched planets place themselves exactly opposite? Any less than this creates an imbalance in the many forces that control orbits, such that there is pressure and nudging and pulling and increased or decreased speed on one or the other until this is perfectly balanced.
Put two ball bearings in a circular track and spin this, and you soon find that the balls are opposite each other. Just so do these two evenly matched planets find this position opposite each other.

What would Minerva look like?...

Why did the ancient Summerians, quoting from the visitors from Earth's twin Planet, not count this twin? As they counted the Moon, for instance, it would seem too great an oversight for them to miss a planet the approximate size of Earth, and since they counted dead planets as well, there would be no reason for the oversight.

The German Imperial Observatory near Berlin.

The Ancestors (as the inhabitants of Minerva are called) travelled from their home, Earth's Twin Planet, to the Earth or Mars or the Moon by means (yet...) unknown. Coming in from the outer solar system, and peeping through their version of telescopes, the Ancestors on their home planet could identify the planets by their relative position from the Sun. They not only landed on Earth, they landed on the Moon where they had a telescopic station clear of the Earth's ever cloudy atmosphere. Mars was used until they ruined it, and the Moon was a stopping point only briefly. Their mining operations were a 3,657 year stint, a long time for living off supplies.

The Earth’s twin has likewise been omitted from astronomy lists. Mankind’s awareness of this twin arose during the height of the Ancient Egyptian empire. During that time, ALL information learned from aliens was withheld from the public. In the same manner that the records on Jack the Ripper will be sealed for several more decades, these records were sealed, to protect the guilty during their lifetimes. Who is now aware of the Earth’s twin? A handful of astronomers working at the major observatories under strict control of their governments. Information on the twin is a forbidden subject. This is termed a matter of national security, subject to imprisonment and other harsh punishment, and as those who enter into this realm soon discern, even an accidental death at the hands of those who fear the release of this information. Thus, the common man, without this information that certain parties have, but won’t allow the public access to, has no facts by which to arrive at the truth, except what will soon be revealed in Tough Do-Nuts magazine...

Gust Costers - editor in chief.