It'll make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs....

This is some crazy shit ya'll. You ever see the movie "Event Horizon"? This is the same thing that they based the movie's "hyperspace" drives on. It'd be cool as hades if it worked. Allthough, like the movie, i'm a bit unrasy about the whole "slipping into another dimension" thing - we can't even handle our own yet...

Welcome to Mars: only a three hour trip
An extrodinary "hyperspace" engine that could make interstellar space travel a reality by flying into other dimensions is being investigated by the United States government.

The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.

The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.

Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension....