http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-driveQuote
A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive. His proposed design, an ingenious re-imagining of an Alcubierre Drive, may eventually result in an engine that can transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks — and all without violating Einstein's law of relativity. We contacted White at NASA and asked him to explain how this real life warp drive could actually work.
This is pretty cool. Even if mankind could colonize the solar system, we would still be lightyears (literally!) away from escaping our sun's eventual death. I'd often speculated that because of einsteins theory of relativity, that matter cannot exceed the speed of light, we would have to push the limits of material travel to find hope for a dying planet. With this warp drive NASA speculates we could reach the nearest solar system in a matter of weeks.
This post was edited by boognis on Aug 19 2013 11:37pm