Warp ship design concept

I blogged a bit on the idea behind this earlier (link).  NASA's Eagleworks Labs are working on an honest to goodness potentially faster than light spaceship drive system.  You can't cross space in a faster than light fashion, but space can bend (compress/expand) faster than light.  As proof just think about the big bang and the size of the universe.  If the universe expanded from a single point 13.7 billion years ago then how come the observable universe is 50 billion light years across (instead of half that size)?  NASA's Eagleworks are working on ways to possibly bend space using rings of massive amounts of energy around the ship and some tricks like oscillating the energy to bend space more efficiently.  The Washington Post published (link) images from a design concept for the ship, that might help capture the public interest. 

This is still all very theoretical but it is important to keep in mind that interstellar travel is still possible if humans decide to do it.  Slower than light interstellar designs like the Daedalus Project are built on solid well understood physics and engineering principles.  These faster than light designs are the next far reaching steps to add to our toolbox.