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>How NASA might build its very first warp drive "My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along," he recalled. "I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible." White had adjusted the shape of Alcubierre's ring which surrounded the spheroid from something that was a flat halo to something that was thicker and curvier.
http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive

>Warp Field Mechanics 101
>Dr. Harold “Sonny” White
>NASA Johnson Space Center
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936_2011016932.pdf