“LOL thanks for the laugh..”
It’s no laughing matter. The Chinese are running some successful tests, because they see major potential as an Em propulsion system for new kinds of weaponry.
See:
EmDrive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
That NASA Warp Drive? Yeah, It’s Still Poppycock
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/nasa-warp-drive-yeah-still-poppycock/
Now, the last time this idea popped up it made a bunch of noise, which eventually settled down because of some pretty (ahem) obvious flaws in Eagleworks’ experiments. The physicists hadn’t run the tests in a vacuum—essential for measuring a subtle thrust signal. And while they had tested the drive under multiple conditions, one of them was intentionally set up wrong. That setup produced the same thrust signatures as the other conditions, suggesting that the signals the physicists were seeing were all artifacts.
This time around, Eagleworks researchers said they had addressed one of those problems. “We have now confirmed that there is a thrust signature in a hard vacuum,” wrote Eagleworks member Paul March in a forum. It was that post—all the way back in February—that led to most of last week’s hullabaloo....
On top of that, there’s no way to be sure that the tests were run in a hard vacuum—because the only source of information is a post on an Internet forum. Not a peer-reviewed published result, not even a one-off conference proceeding. Let’s not do science like that, OK?
Sounds like the successful tests are piling up.
HOWEVER even if it does truly work it will require massive amounts of energy to produce the thrust it needs for any kind of speed. Also the idea of faster than light travel is not going to be achieved by this due to the mass increase with speed issue. Its still very interesting.
I know there have also been some interesting experiments with the principle behind the Alcubierre drive which indicate that a mass on the scale of Jupiter may not be required to needed to warp space for travel.
Electromagnetism seems to be at the core of both.