Reply #25: You're presuming such technology exists concurrent with our civilization. [View All]

[Occulus]

For all we know, it's been invented a dozen times in our galaxy alone, but the timespan between its multiple rediscoveries is so huge that species die out somehow even if they can expand using FTL travel, and there's never any sign that anyone's home.

We're delving into a science fiction aspect of the question, though, and that's something I'd like to avoid for the purposes of my OP. Whether or not it's ever been invented before isn't relevant, even taking into account the "but they would have been here before if it were possible" speculation.

I want to know if anyone's seriously thinking about doing it, period, now, for us. As I tried to make clear, I seriously doubt it's impossible.

What I'm looking for are plausible methods, or theories that might actually pan out. The Alcubierre bubble is one that's certainly intriguing, but might only be half to solution, or merely a good 'what-if' that gets us on the right track. I don't know. I do sincerely believe that FTL travel must be possible, somehow, and we only need to figure out how it might be done.

I'm looking for serious ways to maybe, somehow, do that.