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It’s Official: NASA’s Physics Defying EM Drive Just Passed Peer Review
fossbytes.com ^ | Adarsh Verma

Posted on 11/20/2016 12:12:58 PM PST by BenLurkin

M Drive, the microwave radiation thruster capable of propelling a spacecraft without any fuel, has been heating up the debates over the past couple of years. The concept of EM Drive has been facing harsh criticism as it appears to violate the Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which says that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

In a recent development, a full and official peer-reviewed paper on EM Drive has been published online. This paper has appeared via the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)’s Journal of Propulsion and Power.

While the publication of this paper doesn’t guarantee EM Drive’s real world applications, it surely approves the methodology of the experiments. It also confirms that NASA’s EM Drive constantly produces 1.2 millinewtons per kilowatt of thrust in a vacuum.

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KEYWORDS: electrogravitics; electromagneticdrive; emdrive; mdrive; newtonsthirdlaw; propellentlessdrive; rogershawyer
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To: 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.


21 posted on 11/20/2016 1:03:23 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: zadox

Can’t imagine it would make ya go very fast.


22 posted on 11/20/2016 1:05:22 PM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

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?


23 posted on 11/20/2016 1:05:24 PM PST by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not veauccomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


24 posted on 11/20/2016 1:05:43 PM PST by whodathunkit
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So, when do we get our lightsabers?


25 posted on 11/20/2016 1:07:10 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: dfwgator

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.


26 posted on 11/20/2016 1:07:13 PM PST by Gatorvet (Replace the Socialist Republicrat Uniparty.)
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To: zadox

We need them “Dilithium Crystals” to produce all the energy for the EM drive!


27 posted on 11/20/2016 1:10:14 PM PST by Ken522
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To: exDemMom

cold fusion is real its very real its right around the corner shhhhhhh don’t let the government know...

(sorry, just kidding...)


28 posted on 11/20/2016 1:10:53 PM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: whodathunkit

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!!!


29 posted on 11/20/2016 1:12:39 PM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Bob

http://www.convertunits.com/from/millinewton/to/grams

0.122365945557351 grams


30 posted on 11/20/2016 1:15:43 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: BenLurkin
obunghole...Driving our Nation's technology to more successes.
31 posted on 11/20/2016 1:15:54 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: BenLurkin

.15g per kilowatt.

Doesn’t seem that much for a 1000 watts. Thats’s like about 1.3 horsepower.


32 posted on 11/20/2016 1:28:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Thanks. I should have looked it up rather than trying to recall it.


33 posted on 11/20/2016 1:31:13 PM PST by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not veauccomplishments; they're jobs.)
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To: WMarshal

It is not about energy .... it is about momentum.


34 posted on 11/20/2016 1:31:51 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: PJBankard

Only it is not shot out of the cavity.


35 posted on 11/20/2016 1:32:51 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: BenLurkin

So did Michael Mann’s


36 posted on 11/20/2016 1:38:47 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: RandallFlagg
So, when do we get our lightsabers?

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.

37 posted on 11/20/2016 1:40:34 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles!)
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To: BenLurkin

1.2 militnewtons if thrust certainly ins;t going to get you anywhere fast.


38 posted on 11/20/2016 1:44:09 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: normbal

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.


39 posted on 11/20/2016 1:51:32 PM PST by reed13k
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To: BenLurkin

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.”.


40 posted on 11/20/2016 1:52:36 PM PST by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech: an illusion that Americans hold fast to, although it disappeared decades ago.)
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