:o) Ah, Gandalf, you really OUGHT to be Gandalf the White.
"some way to twist a wrinkle into the local space time"?? I LOVE scifi but I know that twisting wrinkles is what I do with the laundry that needs ironing, not with thinking about space travel.
"Surfing down the wave front"... right out of STAR TREK!! I do love that program and have loved it since 1966.
Fuel is the problem. There is no twisting some wrinkle, though it REALLY sounds like a neat phrase.
All the scientists say the same thing: we don't have the fuel to travel so far.
In the Star Trek universe, dilithium is a fictional chemical element, although dilithium is also the scientific name for a molecule composed of two lithium atoms.
We can't even hope for some new element. There are none. What we have on the periodic chart is ALL THERE IS in this universe of God's.
“Surfing down the wave front” is more like Dark Star than Star Trek.