>> How does the theory deal with the light potentially having to go faster
>> than the speed of light (for example when the photons are aimed straight
>> at the centre of a massive object from afar)? If light always goes at
>> "c" relative to the local space, and the space is getting distorted,
>> this would appear to make the light go faster than "c" no?
>
> No, it would just reduce the distance the light needs to go.
>
> (Also, mass tampers not only with space but also with time.)

Just when you think you understand it! I thought I just had a vague 
recollection of once reading a proposal for faster-than-light travel, 
whereby space was distorted infront of and behind the object moving in a 
certain way. But maybe it was Asimov that wrote it :-)

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