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>Origins.
In 1994, Miguel Alcubierre of the National Autonomous University of Mexico proposed a metric that would reconcile faster than light travel with Einstein’s relativity equations. This “Alcubierre Drive” was based on the idea that a sphere of matter with a negative energy density would cause space-time to warp around a given craft and thus propel it at relative superluminal speeds without actually having any matter or energy go past the speed of light. The idea was that, just as Dark Energy inflates the Universe as what is clearly a superluminal rate, that even though matter and energy can’t go faster than lightspeed; space itself could CURVE superluminally and therefore warping space in this manner would allow an FTL craft to exist without breaking relativity.
The issue arose when in the course of calculations, the negative mass needed would have exceeded the mass of negative Jupiter.