» Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:24 am They set up what they call the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer at the Johnson Space Center, essentially creating a laser interferometer that instigates micro versions of space-time warps.
"We're trying to see if we can generate a very tiny instance of this in a tabletop experiment, to try to perturb space-time by one part in 10 million," White said.
He called the project a "humble experiment" compared to what would be needed for a real warp drive, but said it represents a promising first step.
And other scientists stressed that even outlandish-sounding ideas, such as the warp drive, need to be considered if humanity is serious about traveling to other stars.
"If we're ever going to become a true spacefaring civilization, we're going to have to think outside the box a little bit, we're going to have to be a little bit audacious," Obousy said.
The more we delve into these things the more it starts to concern me we'll create some kind of space time bomb/rift. Though I distinctly remember people that thought the same of the Large Hadron Collider and how it would create a stabilized micro-blackhole that would perpetuated that would grow, eventually swallowing the earth.
