A physicist named Harold White surprised everyone in the field of aeronautics when he disclosed that he, along with his team at NASA, had started to work on the advancement of a warp drive that was faster than light.

The design that he and his team came up with, an innovative refiguring of an Albucierre Drive, could eventually end in an engine that can carry a spacecraft to the closest star in just weeks.

Harold White got the idea while he was thinking about an important equation developed by a physicist named Miguel Albucierre. Miguel recommended an instrument which could warp space-time behind a spacecraft and in front of it. A man named Michio Kaku called Miguel Albucierre's idea a "passport to the universe." There is an idiosyncrasy in the cosmological code that it takes advantage of, which allows for the enlargement and reduction of space-time and could allow for incredibly quick travel between interstellar destinations.

How it works is that the space behind a spaceship could be broadened quickly which would push the spacecraft in a forward direction and passengers would see it as motion even though there would not be very much acceleration. A spheroid object would be placed in the engine between the two regions of expanding and contracting space-time. This would result in a "warp bubble" that would move space-time around the spacecraft, which would reposition the spacecraft and would result in the spacecraft travelling faster than light.

Harold White said that his earlier answers suggested that he had found something that was in the math the whole time. He realized that if the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring was made bigger, like changing the shape of a belt to the shape of a donut, then the energy required would be less and would make the idea more probable.