In addition to the two blog posts by Ethan Siegel (reviewed in the previous post), the following two YouTube videos added credibility to the statement that faster than speed of light travel is a possibility.
1) "Is Warp Drive Physically Possible?", Posted July 20, 2013, by Muon Ray. (14:21 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
This video is a compilation of four (4) separate presentations on the warp drive: 1) Panel discussion at the World Science Festival, May 29- June 2, 2013, New York City. Lawrence Kraus, a renowned theoretical physicist explains the warp drive concept. 2) Michio Kaku, the moderator of the TV show, Physics of the Impossible, explains warp drive with Miguel Alcubierre, the theoretical physicist who came up with the warp drive concept. 3) Morgan Freeman, the moderator of the TV show, Through the Wormhole, explains warp drive and features Steve Lamoreaux who succeeded in measuring Casimir effect (negative energy between two plates), and 4) TV news interview with NASA scientist, Harold (Sonny) White, who is testing warp drive concepts.
Pro:
In less than 15 minutes, warp drive is explained by well known theoretical physicists - Lawrence Kraus, Michio Kaku, Miguel Alcubierre, and Steve Lamoreaux.
Note: I'm also a bit partial to Michio Kaku, since I knew his younger brother and about Michio Kaku from jr. high school days.
Con:
The interview with Sonny White at the end of the video is a bit vague and possibly misleading. It sounds like NASA is working on, and has made progress with the development and testing of this concept, but, according to a couple of other sources (will be reviewed later), it is not the case at all.
Rating: B (A, if not for the interview with Sonny White)
2) "Warp Drives and Bending Time", Posted May 6, 2015, by Australian Academy of Science, (1:09:09 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Tamara Davis, an astrophysicist, explains warp drive concept to a lay audience in a public lecture, Science Fiction becomes Science Fact.
Pro:
Explains warp drive concept in detail. Although her expertise is in astrophysics, and not warp drives, she appears to have done extensive up to date research on the topic. She touched on the topic of time travel briefly, but mentions that it would be a topic for another lecture. And, when talking about Sonny White's warp generator, she qualified it by saying she was not able to obtain information about how it works.
Note: The credibility and the trust factor is very high for me with this speaker, Tamara Davis. The reason being, that I knew Tamara from the early 2000's, when she was a Postdoc at the place I used to work. In fact, when I happened to run into her by chance earlier this year, she gave me heads up about this talk :-)
Con:
In this talk, some time is spent on explaining supernovae observational cosmology. Although the point was to link the dark energy to negative energy, personally, I would've preferred that those few minutes were dedicated for extra questions and answers discussion period.
Rating: A
