Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time
EDIT as a commenter below has kindly pointed out, our current models indicate that the answer to this question is "no", per <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFLcmsjOBg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFLcmsjOBg</a><p>------<p>This is all firmly outside my technical discipline, but aren't there some theories that faster-than-light travel might be achieved by bending spacetime around a spacecraft, as opposed to trying to propel the spacecraft through space?<p>I really want to emphasize that this is entirely speculation, but is it possible that these gravitational waves could be the "ripples" produced in the wake of such faster-than-light travel, the same way a boat travelling through a body of water leaves ripples in the water behind it?