Michael Lorrey [retroman@together.net] wrote: >Exotic Matter far predates Sagan. It goes all the way back to the early >50's. ALcubierre posited it for use in his warp drive concept...
Uh, unless I'm much mistaken Alcubierre wrote his paper in 1994 (give
or take a year or so). Unfortunately later research seems to show that
the largest sustainable warp is smaller than the size of a proton, so
it's not much help 8-(.