Working toward a warp drive: In his garage lab, Omahan aims to bend fabric of space, page 1

You might not believe any of this stuff. But suspend your disbelief for a moment and make space for something incredible.

Let’s start this past summer, when a NASA scientist named Harold “Sonny” White unveiled an artist’s rendering of a spacecraft capable of shooting across the galaxy.

The spacecraft was theoretical, but the research behind it was real. For years White has been exploring the possibilities of actual “Star Trek”-like travel. He even named his ship the IXS Enterprise.

There are obstacles, such as forms of energy that might not exist. That’s a problem.

For NASA, yes, but also for the world’s scientists and Trekkies and time-travel obsessives (not necessarily mutually exclusive groups) for whom “warp drive” technology — once the stuff of science fiction but now generally accepted as a mathematical possibility — hangs like the most delicious carrot on the most spectacular stick in the cosmos.

The dreamers are out there. They attend space conventions and frequent online discussions and brush aside pooh-poohing issues over “causality” and “exotic matter,” and believe these questions must have answers. You just have to know where to look — because maybe the key to unlocking this cosmic mystery will be found in a place nobody expects.

Like here in David Pares’ garage.

You might call Pares (pronounced “PARE-is”) one of those dreamers, though what he’s doing goes far beyond the realm of online chatter.

Some guys spend their spare time restoring automobiles, devoting garage space to motionless Corvettes and Camaros.

Pares is making his own warp drive.

Working toward a warp drive: In his garage lab, Omahan aims to bend fabric of space

This reminds me of what Bob Lazar said of the ufos he supposedly worked on. He said that they work by bending space when traveling long distances.This is incredible if true and serves to support what Bob Lazar said about the Alien spacecraft he supposedly worked on.