Harold G. White

Then in 2011, a NASA conference paper gave the topic a public institutional setting and later became the basis for much larger claims than its tech supports.

Harold White of NASA Johnson Space Center presented Warp Field Mechanics 101 at the DARPA-NASA 100-Year Starship Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

The paper reviewed the Alcubierre metric and described a proposed interferometer testbed associated with Eagle Works.

An interferometer compares light travelling along different paths.

Alcubierre stated in an email to William Shatner that his theory was directly inspired by the term used in the TV series Star Trek and cites the warp drive of science fiction in his 1994 article.

In 2021, DARPA-funded researcher Harold White of the Limitless Space Institute claimed that he had succeeded in creating a real warp bubble, saying, "Our detailed numerical analysis of our custom cashmere cavities helped us identify a real and manufacturable nano/microstructure that is predicted to generate a negative vacuum energy density such that it would manifest a real nanoscale warp bubble, not an analog, but the real thing." This is the latest as of this decade.

We are interested in how to create a starship that has the warp capability.

We want to know.