"With that in mind, I continue to be puzzled by the amount of press that this story seems to receive." Let's make the supposition that a science idea has to me

"With that in mind, I continue to be puzzled by the amount of press that this story seems to receive." Let's make the supposition that a science idea has to meet some standard of plausibility in order to be publishable. The standard being applied to this is that it hasn't (yet) been categorically denied by any incontrovertible law of nature. Not much fails this test. If you postulate access to a source of negative energy or to the inside of a black hole, nothing is technically impossible.