If you're going to use a warp drive (or any other means of FTL travel), you'd better hope that Novikov's self-consistency principle [1] holds, or else be prepar

If you're going to use a warp drive (or any other means of FTL travel), you'd better hope that Novikov's self-consistency principle [1] holds, or else be prepared to deal with the ensuing causality violations [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princi... [2] http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/09/q-hyperspace-warp-drives-and-faster-than-light-travel-why-not/ http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/09/q-hyperspace-warp-d... [Edited to add second link.]