IXS Enterprise: NASA's Warp Drive-Enabled Spaceship

Sorry about the cropping and quality, this is my first post but I just had to share this! Back in 2011, NASA published a paper describing some work being done on an improved version of a kind of warp drive concept that manipulates space around the ship to allow it to move faster than the speed of light (link: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936.pdf ). It basically revolves around those big rings generating a negative pressure field (like that found between 2 very close objects while in a vacuum, if I understood correctly) around the ship, while distorting space such that the ship can flow through it with theoretically no speed limit.

Back in November, the main man behind the new work gave a lecture on it, and it really started hitting the news over the past few days after some CGI artwork (like the above) was drawn up that caught the media's attention. The link to his presentation is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M8yht_ofHc
I don't know about you guys, but the science and math behind it seems sound to me, and given the "non-negative" test results, I think we could actually make the Kessel run in our lifetime! What do you think?