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[Oatka]

It is real, 'cause I saw it in a movie, only they called it a "Flux Capacitor". Here's the proof.

That being said, if it's not a lab error redux, it is fascinating news. I always thought that when people/scientists said that aliens couldn't get here because of the vast distances, I thought of the arrogance of the human race. "We haven't discovered it, so it can't be done."

No doubt that way back when, if you told scientists that sound and images could be transmitted over the air, you'd have been laughed at - or burned at the stake.

[DungeonMaster]

I have this uncle who made a Chevy 350 get 200 mpg, then someone killed him.

[Stentor]

quantum vacuum virtual plasma.

Is that how the Fed produces Fedbucks?

[Lee N. Field]

Build one into a little sattelite, loft it into LEO. See if it can fly itself around or not.

If it can, without expending reaction mass, that's what we want, whether we know how it works or not.

[ForYourChildren]

Of course this isn't going to work.

Einstein said quantum physics doesn't work.

You can read about it here:

Einstein says quantum mechanics violates reality.

http://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.47.777

[njslim]

Impulse Engine......?????

[Tzimisce]

For later

[JoeFromSidney]

Interesting. My first reaction when I read the post was that they were in some way using electromagnetic radiation as the "exhaust mass." This is a terribly inefficient way of obtaining thrust, since the efficiency goes down as the velocity is a smaller and smaller fraction of the "exhaust velocity."

I read the paper linked to, and followed the equations. It appears they've found a scheme to use unbalanced forces from electromagnetic radiation in a cavity.

The paper was several years old. I hope they publish more soon.

[minnesota_bound]

“bouncing microwaves around in a closed container.”
This would explain why my microwave oven keeps bouncing around on the counter. It was trying to go into warp.....