And - according to a NASA lecture I caught on YouTube a while back - as of 2013 the required negative mass has dropped from Jupiter-scale to *only* 1600 pounds.

On Apr 19, 2017 11:35 AM, "David Shaw" <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
The Alcubierre drive is a theoretical FTL drive which, unlike so many others, does not violate relativity. Unfortunately, it requires negative mass to work.

Well, if http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39642992 is to be believed, we may very well have just discovered how to create negative mass.

Interesting...

David Shaw
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