[Short Hand]

[quote="Jimbo@":8b32b]To put that theory into test is to bend the laws of physics that we are so bind too. Its impossible. Man cannot create a wormhole by the use of gravity. To do that we need the ability to harness the power of a super big sun and that wont happen.[/quote:8b32b]

their were 2 ways stated in the article if you read on.

The first was a matter of wormholes etc.
The 2nd one was about shrinking space infront of you, and expanding it in behind , which meant you isolated yourself from normal space, which meant "supposedly "you could go faster.