Where Do We Find Exotic Matter

In the last chapter we’ve seen that Kip Thorne’s work on wormholes was widely recognized as having a direct bearing on the problem of rapid spacetime transport. But the requirements he and his collaborators suggested were and remain so daunting that almost no one has paid much attention to them when trying to devise realistic advanced propulsion systems. The single scheme recently proposed that addresses the issues squarely, Jack Sarfatti’s “softening” scheme, is based on physical assumptions that almost certainly are not correct. But his proposal is based on serious physics that can be tested in the laboratory. Should we be fabulously lucky, his proposal may turn out to have merit.