Here's my idea.
It calls for a couple of experiments (which I have also designed) to show that space, or the "fabric" of space can be made the opposite of how it exists around massive objects. If space is more "dense" around massive objects, then it may also exist in a "rarified" state as well --a virtual negative mass.
I propose 2 experiments to show that by (nearly) instantaneously removing a mass from an area of space, that the warped space will not only "spring" back to normal, but "overshoot" and become rarified, as if a negative mass existed in the same space, for a short time.
If that virtual negative mass occupies the same space as a positive mass (of which some had been instantaneously converted to energy), the two masses might cancel to zero. If that is the case, then infinite acceleration is possible, hence FTL is possible.
Experiment 1 is a dynamic version of Cavendishes torsion experiment to determine the gravitaional constant, using charged spheres (in Faraday cages).
Experiment 2 involves an underground nuclear test and some very-very sensitive gravitomiters and accelerometers.
Bottom line, if space is "springy" then FTL may be possible.
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