>> What intrigues me is what happens when space is being warped
>> by several space ships travelling in different directions *at* *the*
>> *same* *time!!* ...

> By then they'll have built the Intragalactic Highway System, with
> appropriate warp drive on- and off-ramps, and bridges where their
> paths intersect and so on.  :-)

> My last response to Wayne got sent out with some typos and a
> few edits missing, but for example at one point I said science
> fiction is not science fact and never will be.  That holds, because
> by definition "fiction" at any given time isn't fact.  But the fiction,
> if it's proves prescient enough, might become fact and my last
> draft would have made that point.

> The way you've described it evokes space being manipulated
> over large distances.  I've always assumed the tech wouldn't
> have that problem.  If space is being warped ahead of and
> behind the ship, I conceptualize that as propagation of the
> warped space and the bubble within it.  So normal space is
> restored in the wake.