[handol]

The field can't help being click bait with a name so loaded with implications that the work does not back up.

e.g. that the warp fields studied would be capable of causing something to move.

[lambdasquirrel]

Eh, nowhere did I read her say that warp fields would cause something to move. It was never a stipulation of warp drives that they would cause something to move. In principle, they contract the space ahead of you so that any forward movement would be amplified. But you still need something to impart forward momentum.

[handol]

> It was never a stipulation of warp drives that they would cause something to move.

The name was lifted from a very well known science fiction universe, where it has exactly that stipulation. As a result it carries that implication for (the vast majority of) readers when it shows up on IFLScience or whatever.

[kordlessagain]

What we need is an inertia-less drive.

[pkdpic]

So, they can facilitate actual movement then?