Posted on 08/01/2014 4:13:21 PM PDT by servo1969
The ion drive will predate warp drive
Newton Law of Motion #1 violated
Either that or Second Law of Thermodynics violated.
Other than that: perfect like cold fusion in Ytah
Dynamics
Sorry
Utah
Okay, step away from the keyboard, sir.
Slinky also makes a wonderful toy
Another Muslim invention!
hell, anybody who’s ever scraped out a jeffries tube knows that...
People used to mock Robert Goddard with his ‘loony’ ideas about spaceflight. You’d think people would be more open to new ideas but it seems things never change.
If microwave propulsion is proven to work despite defying previously accepted orthodoxies about physics then it simply means there need to be new orthodoxies about physics.
I believe it is possible, does not violate the laws of motion or thermodynamics, and is relatively straight forward. Does that make me a barking moonbat?
“Shawyer claims the EmDrive converts electric power into thrust, without the need for any propellant by bouncing microwaves around in a closed container. He has built a number of demonstration systems, but critics reject his relativity-based theory and insist that, according to the law of conservation of momentum, it cannot work.”
It would be interesting to see exactly how this guys “relativity-based theory” works. After all, relativistically, the microwave energy is equivalent to mass, but you should still need to shoot a whole lot of microwaves out the back of the ship in order to generate any forward thrust.
Just bouncing microwaves around in a box would seem to achieve nothing. One impact on one side might move the box infintesimally forward, but the reflection hitting another side would then impart momentum in another direction, and in the aggregate, it should all negate and result in no motion at all.
The only way I can conceive of this working is if you could direct the microwave impacts to only hit the front side of the box. This would require catching any reflecting photons and redirecting them back at the front side, without letting them strike any other surface to impart their momentum. Some sort of non-physical system, like a magnetic containment field, might do the trick, but I have a feeling that there is a “catch” I am not thinking of that would make even that solution not work.
As soon as they said, convert electricity, I stopped.
Where does the electricity come from? At best perfect nuclear conversion of mass to energy.
Try running the numbers for a machine to get to say 90% light. It is 100,000 fuel to payload ratio. Then there is slowing down and return.
It would be awesome if it is true. Humans would literally OWN the solar system. Probably not beyond it for a long time though.
“If microwave propulsion is proven to work despite defying previously accepted orthodoxies about physics then it simply means there need to be new orthodoxies about physics.”
But the science is settled! There is a consensus! What are you, some kind of denier??
LOL ;)
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