Warp factor ... Soon?

There is an article in the Scotsman on a potential faster than light system going around. The full text can be found here, and it does not seem to be as much garbage as you would initially think. The physicist that initially postulated the theory it is based on Burkhard Heim existed and wasn't the normal kind of crank you expect in these situation. Heim theory has been tested against current experimental results, and found accurate, and even this fairly radical application of the theory is going to be tested experimentally according to the record of the New Scientist article. If they do this is very good science, since it means that the theory can disproved experimentally. Something that more mainstream theories, such as M-Theory cannot. So we could soon know if this is whole lot of nothing, or the biggest thing since Relativity.