Remember Newton’s laws of motion:
1 - You can’t win
2 - you can’t break even
3 - you can’t get out of the game.
1 - you can’t get more energy out of a system than you pump in. Entropy always takes its share, fair or not.
2 - perpetual motion is for suckers; this way to the egress, gentlemen.
3 - anything you do does something else. push something, it pushes back.
The “law” we’re being told this system violates is the one of conserved momentum, M1V1=M2V2. Mass 1 exerting velocity against Mass 2 creates another velocity proportional to the masses. Big gun shot by little guy knocks little guy over (great example of this in youtube, some Saudi prince shooting a .600 NE or something, knocking him on his butt - definitely worth the price of admission).
So there’s this chamber in which a standing wave is produced, one end larger than the other and this difference in AREA produces a difference in momentum. tiny, but, apparently, measurable.
Remember, “photons” carry momentum but no (or nearly no) mass), a standing wave should exert “pressure” on both ends of the vessel equally.
I think the basic thing everyone’s missing is, THERE’S A NET INPUT OF ENERGY. There’s an enormous LOSS there somewhere (micronewtons for a KILOWATT?), heat, I’m sure, plus a minute amount of “thrust” or linear momentum in return.
Solar panels? Forget that. Nukes. Plutonium-run devices like we’re using on Mars.
This has potential.
If C isn’t constant it works with photons easily enough.....then the delta in light speed accounts for the momentum shift...just sayin. There’s still a lot we don’t really know.
Interesting!
Dr. John Slough:
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/early_stage_innovation/niac/2012_phaseII_fellows_slough.html
What JoeFromSidney said.