Re: Faster Than Light Travel

Chris McCurry writes:

@:) But thinking about it, I can only think of three truly different
@:) ways to travel at high speeds in S.Fiction.  Every thing else is
@:) just a variation of one of those themes:
@:) 
@:) 1) hyperspace / warp space / worm holes / etc.
@:) 2) Folding / warping (changing the reality of space time)
@:) 3) conventional travel

  I think you're right.  Basically you either traverse some space to
get from A to B or you don't.  If you do, you either traverse normal
space, your option (3), or you traverse some other kind of space, your
option (1).  If you don't traverse any space to get where you're
going, you either stay put and move the universe, your option (2), or
you stay put and _don't_ move the universe, which is something of a
degenerate case because you don't go anywhere.

  The closest thing I can think of that is any different from any of
these is some kind of teleoperation/astral projection scheme, but then
you're not really going anywhere, I guess, so it doesn't count.

  I too would be very interested to hear any ideas that are somehow
different from these apparently catch-all transportation methods.

-joachim