Much of the time, you will see warp propulsion systems working as a combination of these two systems. Space is compressed by the drive field ahead of the spacecraft and expands behind the spacecraft. This is kind of like producing a wave in the fabric of time space and riding it to your destination. Your spacecraft is pulled into the compressed space and pushed away from the expanding space behind it.

These propulsion systems are actually not that bad. Your spacecraft is between two effects that are propelling it along a controlled pathway. The spacecraft still has to endure immense stresses between the two fields because the spacecraft is made up of a collection of particles in the fabric of time space. Although the spacecraft is in a trojan orbit between the two fields, it is still effected by both of them at the same time. Stressing the fabric of space time stresses everything that space time contains.

We have the mistaken impression that the combination of opposites produces a null state. It is true that both states are destroyed in the process. What is left out is the amount of energy that is released in that collision. Combining 120 VDC and -120VDC gives you a 240 VDC of energy. Power is required to maintain both states and the result is a difference in potential that is always quantitatively positive. This difference in potential is a real amount of energy.

Your spacecraft, and everything contained within the spacecraft, is standing between these two poles. A third field must be used to hold space in a single state while the spacecraft passes through it or the expanding of space containing the spacecraft will pull the particles of the spacecraft apart. The problem is not so much that you are between two states of spacial compression but that you are between two dynamic states of spacial compression. Space is moving more than the spacecraft is.

In order to make the ether surfers work, the spacecraft has to be outside of the effect that is propelling it. This is no different from any other faster than light drive system. Engineers often forget to account for this when they design these drive systems for the first time. Remember that every coin has two flat sides and you will always have to account for the down side. Once you have learned that, you will know to look for the negative effects of any system and design around them.

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