They're not, but OK, this is more of a science circus act, for grants and news coverage. >Last week, Applied Physics, which is an international group of scient

They're not, but OK, this is more of a science circus act, for grants and news coverage. >Last week, Applied Physics, which is an international group of scientists and engineers, announced that they’d created an online toolkit for “analyzing warp drive spacetimes” called the “Warp Factory.” This comes only a few years after a flurry of papers reported that constructing warp drives — built on the idea of spacetime-folding warp bubbles — could be theoretically possible. Warp Factory provides an online playground for researchers to test warp engine ideas. “Warp Factory serves as a virtual wind tunnel, enabling us to test and evaluate different warp designs. Science fiction is now inching closer to science fact.” Where "inching" means "we made an online physics engine simulator and hype it as some breakthrough". I guess in times when we seem to have lost the ability to even design and build reliable jet airliners, we need all the compensation we can get