Submission + - Faster Than Light "Warp Drive" Proposed (discovery.com)
The warp engine is based on a design first proposed in 1994 by Michael Alcubierre. The Alcubierre drive, as it's known, involves expanding the fabric of space behind a ship into a bubble and shrinking space-time in front of the ship. The ship would rest in between the expanding and shrinking space-time, essentially surfing down the side of the bubble.
The physicists argue that the ship itself wouldn't be moving faster than light, so Einstein's relativity is not broken.
The fabric of space has moved faster than light before, says Cleaver, right after the Big Bang, when the universe expanded faster than the speed of light.
I'll be convinced when they get to Alpha Centauri and back in less than 8 and a half years."