The Very Worm that Gnaws

Remember how I said the space-folds in my books are something like a cross between Alcubierre warp and a traversable wormhole? It was driving me nuts, because I'd seen an article about a guy who had a very similar idea, and I couldn't remember where. But now I found the reference again, and that led me to the paper.

Incidentally, speaking of traversable wormholes, have you seen this picture?

Yeah, that's not actually just CGI. It's a graph. The photos are a building at the University of Tübingen and Boulogne sur Mer, but the distortion that links them is the ray-trace of a Morris Thorne wormhole metric (specifically, ds²=-dt²+dl²+(b₀²+l²)(dθ²+sin²θdφ²), where b₀ is the throat radius). Isn't that awesome?

If you want to impress your friends, you could rattle off the names "David Waite, Miguel Alcubierre, Mohammed Mansouryar"—three people who've published research concerning FTL travel.