warp drive (was : Why theano UFOs)

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p81

"Mention the term warp drive and the name Miguel
Alcubierre immediately comes to mind. But it was only
recently that the Mexican physicists connection to
the idea arose. His 1994 paper, written while he was
at the University of Wales, took what had been a
science fiction concept (most famously, I suppose, in
Star Trek) and extended it into the realm of serious
science. Not that Alcubierre put forth a realistic
proposal for building a starship that could travel
faster than light. What he was doing was the essential
first step in such study, trying to demonstrate that
FTL travel times could be achieved within the context
of General Relativity."