The remarks about bending time and space probably come from Director Kratsios's remarks here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/8716/
He probably meant it in the Alvin Toffler techno-feudal sense, not literally, as he doesn't seem evil enough to make a good NSF/NIH gatekeeper. So far only a whole lot of bolshevik terrorists have slaughtered so many, and flipped the blame.