Welcome to Mars express: only a three hour trip

Here's a link to a very interesting article I found back in Jan. The article is on a theoretical engin that could , in theory achieve faster then light travel. They are hopeing to test the theory in 5 years or so.
I was woundering if anyone else has herd about this and if they are even still working on it?
news.scotsman.com...

This topic has been reported on several times before.

The original, and most posted on thread can be found here.
Radical Space Propulsion: Warp Drive for Real?

Let's not confuse 'Warp Drive' and 'Hyperspace Drive'.

It's been over 4 of those 5 years now since the article stated: "would be within the next five years [to build a test device] if the technology works". I would think there should be some kind of progress report by now.

I mean... are we going to be forced to waste more money for another lousy NASA rocket technology (this time an ion-rocket), before we are given the good stuff?

Are we waiting on CERN's particle collider to 'discover' the extra dimensions, before we are 'allowed' to use Burkhard Heim's propulsion concepts?



[edit on 5/3/2010 by Larryman]