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Warp drive is a name borrowed from science-fiction and applied to theoretical propulsion mechanisms which have the remarkable ability to propel a spacecraft faster than the speed of light. I have long been interested in this concept and have had the privilidge to spend some time working on a novel form of warp drive. I published a paper on the arXiv in 2005 - the
Supersymmetry Breaking Casimir Warp Drive. I did not submit the paper for peer review as I felt there were still a lot of details to be worked out. However, the paper caught the attention of the organizers of the
STAIF conference and I was invited to speak. You can watch my STAIF presentation
here. Late in 2007 I was invited to talk at the British Interplanetary society at the
Warp Drive Symposium. The conference encouraged me to divert some time from my PhD research to developing the warp drive concept I had had two years earlier. As a result of this I wrote a more
refined paper that has been accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal.
