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.
“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 ;)
and then they will pooh-pooh the next idea
Everything Robert Goddard was completely theoretically possible. And had been understood, theoretically, for a couple of hundred years.
A better example would be the Wright Brothers. There actually was some theoretical debate about whether heavier than air flight was possible.
They actually pushed the boundaries of science and practically invented the science of aerodynamics.