/sci/ - Science & Math

Hey /sci/. First time poster.

I'm writing a science-fiction novel and I was wondering if the way that I have described FTL space travel is at all plausible.

So, essentially, the "FTL" drives don't break the speed of light, nor do they accelerate to light speed. What the FTL drives do is they use radiation to generate a temporary wormhole (in which the wormhole is held open with negative mass) to reduce the distance to their destination. Once they reach the coordinates of their destination, the wormhole opens and allows them out before collapsing in on itself once negative mass is no longer used to keep it open.

So, rather than being straight FTL, they're more folding space to get from Point A to Point B. The starship would still have the ability to travel within a star system under its own power, but only when it needs or wants to get from one system to another would it use an FTL drive.

So, is this plausible? Or would I have to rewrite the FTL or just wave my hand and say it's FTL, there's no logic behind it.