EM drive apparently works (nasa leak)

[xelasnave]

Well what's going on?

First test...follow the money.

Could anyone be making money from this?

Second test...is there any possible military application.

Third test...is this a smoke screen for ????..if folk think a project is nonsence it may escape attention.

But on the bright side it has caused me to invent a better propulsion system....

It works by creating an absence of push itrons in front of the craft such that push itrons coming from behind push the craft into the less dense region at the front of the craft.

As soon as I finish my motorized walker I will build one.

Alex

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

My Wife's Uncle is a theoretical physicist at Cal State Fullerton...he claims it might be possible for this thing to work and still obey our current "laws" of physic via the Mach Effect...he wrote some papers in the 1990s that would support this thinking.

I shared a quick email with him today and while he was cautious and wanted to review the experiment and related data, thought it might be possible to be legit but reflected that it was early days and there were a number of things that might yet be found in error in the tests...

[bojan]

Originally Posted by wavelandscott

... Mach Effect

Also known as Woodward effect, see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward_effect

[The_bluester (Paul)]

Yeah, I will remain skeptical until they push a test spacecraft out of orbit with it!

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

Originally Posted by bojan

Also known as Woodward effect, see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward_effect

Yes, that is my Wife's Uncle...smalll world!

[Shiraz (Ray)]

paper here - one version at least
http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B36120

a pilot wave version of quantum mechanics is suggested as the basis for a mechanism.
"If the vacuum is indeed mutable and degradable as was explored, then it might be possible to do/extract work on/from the vacuum, and thereby be possible to push off of the quantum vacuum and preserve the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. It is proposed that the tapered RF test article pushes off of quantum vacuum fluctuations, and the thruster generates a volumetric body force and moves in one direction while a wake is established in the quantum vacuum that moves in the other direction."

or give this a go http://www.emdrive.com/theorypaper9-4.pdf

[deanm (Dean)]

"Yes, that is my Wife's Uncle...small world!"

Scott: is there a probability density function associated with that outrageous coincidence of yours?!?

Dean

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

Originally Posted by deanm

"Yes, that is my Wife's Uncle...small world!"

Scott: is there a probability density function associated with that outrageous coincidence of yours?!?

Dean

It rarely surprise me the connections that I come across on a regular basis...everything is connected.