New physics and old physicists…

At the end of ABC World News one evening last week, Kip Thorne made an appearance. Seems he was a consultant for the new movie Interstellar. The subject, of course, was FTL (faster-than-light) travel, what you need to visit other star systems in subjective times less than several hundreds of human generations. Seemed Thorne was proposing wormholes (Deep Space Nine, anyone?). While most sci-fi authors (including myself) just write a few words of pseudo-scientific technobabble and then get on w...