What are they going to do?
“tear a hole in the fabric of space”, ‘course to be physically correct, that should be “tear a hole in the fabric of space-TIME”.
The philosophical idea being that space-time is a participant in physical interactions, and not simply a background, or “canvas” ... as established by Einstein.
There may be fatal objections to the idea, as I am by no means an authority, but I don’t think it can be rejected on the face of it.