[RightWhale]

something has to be working FTL

Either way, Whether it acts instantaneously like a radio-control car or is a permanent warp in the continuum, it in effect is always there and Jupiter just rides in the groove like a Victrola needle. However you want to look at it.

[parsifal]

Maybe there is a "warp shock wave" which moves with the sun that has a diameter somewhere past OORT. But that would imply an ether wouldn't it? parsy.