While a doctoral physics student at California Institute of Technology in January of 2064, a young man named Zefram Cochrane studied the theories of physicists such as Miguel Alcubierre and Richard Obousy and first postulated that a spaceship could use subspace fields projected by a series of coils to warp the fabric of space and that ship could use the warp to propel it faster than light. This drive would work by contracting space-time in front of the ship and expanding space-time behind it. The starship itself would rests in a "warp bubble" between the two space-time distortions. This warped space, together with the region between it, would accelerate off faster than the speed of light and the vessel would then essentially 'surf' on the wave in space-time created by this distortion.