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\section{Introduction}   \emf{adjust \emph{adjust  this so it talks about how experimentation needs to be taken to a realistic tabletop level} Since the 1994 publication of the Alcubierre solution to the Einstein Field Equations - the Alcubierre Drive (Alcubierre, 1994) - a handful of proposals and experiments have been published attempting to demonstrate the realizability of faster-than-light travel. Early proposals included a focus on zero-point energy (H.E. Puthoff, 1998). In the late 2000s, organizations such as Icarus Interstellar and the Tau Zero foundation have charted fields of interest for faster-than-light travel. A class of recent experiments, EM warping and measurement using laser interferometry (White, 2015), are of particular interest and examining their feasibility is particularly useful for advancing Alcubierre drive experimentation.