Years later, White was asked by NASA to present his updated warp concept, leading to his 2011 paper and the warp drive concept now known as the “Acubierre/White Warp Drive.” Theoretical Warp Bubble Structure (Image Credit LSI) “From the process of not being at warp to being at warp… what would that look like when you look at the mathematics? And the only way I could see to answer the question is to put it in the canonical form in 2003, so that’s what I talked about in that paper.” “Some things didn’t quite make sense to me, but by putting it into canonical form, helped me figure out ‘how does this concept really work?’, White told The Debrief. White immediately noted how Alcubierre’s math worked but also spotted areas he thought his own background in engineering and physics could improve the concept. And so, in 2003, I published a paper in the journal General Relativity and Gravitation.” You know, it was not published in its canonical form. I was thinking about this Alcubierre Warp metric. “While I was working in the space program, I was thinking about this Advanced Power propulsion. “I started working in the (NASA) space program in 2000,” White told The Debrief in an interview. Hoping to move Alcubierre’s metric from theory into a published, canonical form, White first looked at the idea more closely in 2003. While Alcubierre’s warp drive concept showed that traveling faster than light was mathematically possible, it was widely criticized for its massive power requirements and use of purely theoretical “exotic matter.” Still, many scientists and engineers were intrigued by his work, including former NASA engineer and physicist Dr. The Original: Alcubierre/White Warp Drive Here, The Debrief looks at three of the past most promising warp drive models, along with one brand new physics concept called the “Tri-Space Model,” which may hold the key to making faster-than-light travel possible. Since then, numerous scientists and engineers have taken a swing at their own version of a viable, real-world warp drive, including an attempt to patent one of these “out there” ideas. That idea remained in the realm of science fiction until 1994, when Mexican mathematician Miguel Alcubierre proposed a mathematically viable solution for building a real-world faster-than-light warp drive. Since Captain Kirk first ordered the Starship Enterprise to engage the warp drive back in 1967, fans of science fiction have dreamed of traveling to the stars at warp speed.
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