Other than in science fiction, there is absolutely no known way to exceed the speed of light and to transmit matter or information in that manner.

Using terms like 'space-time' and 'worm holes' does not provide any proof that exceeding the speed of light is possible. All you are doing is borrowing words from one area of physics and imaginatively using them to propose an idea, but without any mathematics or verifiable logic to support the idea.

We need hard evidence that nature permits such things to happen, and this evidence is completely lacking. Physicists have been accelerating electrons to within a millimeter/sec of the speed of light for decades and have never seen any departure from what is strictly permitted by special relativity. There is no 'gap' or 'quirk' that has ever been experimentally discovered that shows light-weight electrons can surmount the speed of light.

This is a real disappointment because it means that star travel will always be a very hard and time-consuming thing for any civilization to attempt.

Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald