I’m pretty sure that last quote is direct from the Alpha Centauri datalinks... Prokhor Zakharov, maybe?
“Time dilates as the speed of light approaches. To the extent that light consists of particles, it is in its own way, timeless. Through simple perturbations of the temporal manifold, we can refract or repel photons most efficiently.”
> Matter is confined energy, bound within fields, frozen in a quantum of time.
> Polarization of the local vacuum is analogous to manipulation/modification of the local space tie topological lattice energy density.
> If we can engineer the structure of the local quantum vacuum state, we can engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level
If real physics sounded that cool, it would convince me I took the wrong major in college. :)