It's long, but interesting-good...it covers space, worm holes, time differences in space, dimensions, etc.
The best theory on wormholes is that possibly you could get your matter to go through one, but you’d be quite thoroughly destroyed in the process. The gravity gradient at the entrance to the wormhole would be such as to tear matter down to elementary particles. A cloud of hydrogen dust is probably not how you want to present yourself to what is on the other end of the wormhole.
Pushing any object having mass through the acceleration required to attain speeds approaching light will cause its effective mass to grow exponentially with its approach to the speed of light, according to general relativity. Newtonian mechanics do not pertain here. Bottom line is, the growth in mass does make it impossible not just “near.” There would not be enough energy in the universe.
I read the Hawking book that explained the singularity. When I got to the part about being crushed as you entered it....I figured it was worth finding out what happens at the other end. Ha ha.
Another FReeper said this about the book:
Just finished your book. Man that is a good book. Disruptive though. I had to keep reading to find out what happened next. That’s kind of the way I read though. A good book I read here and there, a not so good book once I put it down I never pick it back up and then one like yours once I start I can’t quit. After two low sleep nights because I stayed up too late reading I finished it this afternoon. Action packed doesn’t even begin to describe it. I liked it so much I left my first review on Amazon. Any freepers looking for a good book this is it.
http://www.amazon.com/Nation-One-Matthew-Harbert-ebook/dp/B00JLG3NRG/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425591800&sr=1-8&keywords=%22nation+of+one%22
Of course this is a shameless vanity, but the book does address this very issue of FTL speed and other fascinating machinations.