Avtrician,
with reference to the Tardis, there is a beautifully simple answer.
Being a telephone box, the Tardis is effectively a sound device, and as suggested on this forum, the level of sound is really what makes rockets and other things fly. Simple as that.
Newton missed this whole concept because he was looking for something only scientists and nerd schoolboys could understand. Other scientists then built a load of bollocks theory on top to confuse everyone away from the simplicity and the conspiracy has continued.
Yes - the Tardis amplifies and modifies sound in different planes to enable space and time travel along those planes. You have all heard the Tradis sound - there is no other sound like it.
Show me a transporting device that does not involve levels of sound emmission in proportion to it's power! Even in space an idle rocket is just drifting quietly. To alter direction it must cause matter or particles to move or vibrate and this is sound. Who will prove me wrong!