@rosborne979,
Thanks for the replies ros this is the first forum I've ever felt inclined to participate in. When I try to discuss the subject matter with friends and colleagues, I get a blank look in return and have to drop it for fear of ostracisation. I find this stuff to be as interesting as all get out, anyway, back to the talking point, I'm aware of the problems of FTL travel and was hypothesising a ''cheat'' as you say, using something we haven't discovered yet. I'm tipping the exotic Quantum realm will yield if not an answer, then a direction in which to continue. Sometimes the best discoveries are made by accident, if that's not a bad word to use when referring to the large hadron collider!