FTL "warp" experiments: Media hype or significant? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/17/warp-drive-star-trek-feasible_n_1890679.html This is just one article, but they're are plenty more to be found. There is one thing that confuses me though. Alcubierre's warp drive idea seemed to rely on "exotic matter" to bend space time- in other words total speculation. So how do we get from that to an actual experiment that uses a laser interferometer to create micro warps? Is this a new application of this technology? It seems like the basis for creating these warps is just as significant as the power reductions, but all the articles I've seen (which are mostly repostings of an article from space.com) gloss over that aspect. Is this just the media hyping something or is there actually something significant going on here?