Notably, only travel at c is supposedly prohibited, but travel faster or slower could happen (hence tachyons).
Not in my book. Everybody is free to write his own book, of course. Until somebody does in fact get the dry cleaning back from Alpha Cent by 8:00 tomorrow morning, the final book hasn't been written.
How can you eliminate mass? I thought mass couldn't be tampered with, but maybe itz jus' me publick skool fisicks.