Posted on 11/20/2016 12:12:58 PM PST by BenLurkin
I dunno. It’s been awhile since I took any kind of physics class.
I am high skeptical, however. Physical laws are immutable; otherwise, the universe could not exist.
The mathematics in the paper itself are not difficult; it relies on regular algebra. If I had time, I could go through the math and see if it checks out.
Somehow, I am reminded of the articles that someone kept posting a while back, which were claiming that cold fusion is real, and small reactors suitable for home use were just around the corner. I believe the person posting those eventually was banned.
Can’t imagine it would make ya go very fast.
I’m not sure about the conversion — Isn’t 1.2 millinewtons about 0.0012 grams of thrust? Or have I got the units wrong?
Adarsh Verma needs to return to journalism school, or maybe even high school.
He obviously has confused ‘without any fuel’ to mean a physics defying process. ARRGHHH!!!
The actual engine uses solar power to drive a microwave induced thruster and the fuel is provided by solar cells in the form of electricity.
The unique aspect of the engine is that it doesn’t need to have on board fuel storage for operation.
So, when do we get our lightsabers?
Had the student taken advantage of the nonlocality function of entanglement he could have instantly escaped the lynching by moving to the field of influence of the block of cheese in his refrigerator.
We need them “Dilithium Crystals” to produce all the energy for the EM drive!
cold fusion is real its very real its right around the corner shhhhhhh don’t let the government know...
(sorry, just kidding...)
Right that’s why all of us deplorables out here in flyover land need to get us those electrical cars cuz they save the planet! they don’t use any FUEL!!!
.15g per kilowatt.
Doesn’t seem that much for a 1000 watts. Thats’s like about 1.3 horsepower.
Thanks. I should have looked it up rather than trying to recall it.
It is not about energy .... it is about momentum.
Only it is not shot out of the cavity.
So did Michael Mann’s
Never. Of all thing things in Star Wars that were impossible the light saber was the most obvious.
A beam of light does not stop. It continues on, so when Obi and Darth were showing off their control of the Swartz they were actually carving the station apart.
1.2 militnewtons if thrust certainly ins;t going to get you anywhere fast.
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.
If it truly works, and is not a product wishful thinking, then it doesn’t defy the “laws of physics.” That would mean that the laws of physics are wrong, and need to be revised.
However, I don’t believe it disproves the findings of physical scientists up to today, as codified in what is known as the “laws of physics.”.
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