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    $\begingroup$ That might be one of the most original stardrives I've heard of that sounds remotely plausible. Glorious Space-Jetski! $\endgroup$
    – Ruadhan
    Commented Jun 21, 2022 at 15:13
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    $\begingroup$ Makes me think of Futurama, where their method of FTL is to make the universe move around the ship instead of the other way around. $\endgroup$
    – Jemox
    Commented Jun 22, 2022 at 7:31
  • $\begingroup$ Sounds like a pretty devastating weapon too. $\endgroup$
    – LarsH
    Commented Jun 22, 2022 at 19:55
  • $\begingroup$ This sounds a lot like an ELI5 explanation of an Alcubierre drive, and it has the same problem: if your drive consumes the space in front of itself, but "unconsumes" space behind itself, then you need something that has negative mass to do the unconsuming. AFAIK we don't know that negative mass is strictly an impossibility, but we're still pretty sure it doesn't exist. $\endgroup$
    – kaya3
    Commented Jun 22, 2022 at 23:42
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    $\begingroup$ You might consider that the only thing found so far to actually fill ALL of space is the Higgs Field. It is the only field that seemingly encompasses the entire universe equally. So what you are proposing is a mechanism to put the Higgs Field in front of you, behind you. Since the Higgs Field is responsible for inertia, you 'bypass' inertia. $\endgroup$
    – Justin Thyme the Second
    Commented Jun 24, 2022 at 14:06