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In a Universe ruled by the harsh and unyielding laws of Physics, it’s often tempting to dream of mechanisms which defy these rigid restrictions. Although over the past hundred years …read more Continue reading The Myth of Propellantless Space Propulsion Refuses to Die
Can I just say that doing a links roundup article in a week that includes April Fool’s Day isn’t a fun job? Because it’s not. I mean, how can you …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 4, 2021
DARPA gave researchers $1.3 million to build a prototype engine that is fueled by light. Continue reading DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience
The EmDrive propulsion system might be able to take us to the stars, but first it must be reconciled with the laws of physics. Continue reading Theoretical Physicists Are Getting Closer to Explaining How NASA’s ‘Impossible’ EmDrive Works
You can fly a brick if it has offset mass and you can fly a microwave because it breaks the law of the conservation of momentum. A paper on the EM Drive was recently published by the Eagleworks team, and the results basically say, ‘if this works, it’s a terrible thruster that shouldn’t work’. Experts have weighed in, but now we might not have to wait for another test in the Eagleworks lab: China will fly an EM Drive on their space station. Will it work? Who knows.
The ESP32 is just now landing on workbenches around the globe, and …read more
A week or two ago we featured a research paper from NASA scientists that reported a tiny but measurable thrust from an electromagnetic drive mounted on a torsion balance in a vacuum chamber. This was interesting news because electromagnetic drives do not eject mass in the way that a traditional rocket engine does, so any thrust they may produce would violate Newton’s Third Law. Either the Laws Of Physics are not as inviolate as we have been led to believe, or some other factor has evaded the attempts of the team to exclude or explain everything that might otherwise produce …read more
Continue reading That NASA EM Drive Paper: An Expert Opinion
It’s still not clear how it works, but pilot-wave theory may have something to do with it. Continue reading NASA’s Peer-Reviewed Paper on the EmDrive Is Now Online
There are one or two perennial scientific stories that sound just too good to be true, but if they delivered on their promise would represent a huge breakthrough and instantly obsolete entire fields. One example is so-called “cold fusion”, the idea that nuclear fusion could be sustained with a net energy release at room temperature rather than super-high temperature akin to that of the sun. We all wish it could work, but so far it has obstinately refused. As a TV actor portraying a space engineer of the future once said, one “cannae change the Laws of Physics“. …read more
Continue reading EM Drive Paper Published By Eagleworks Team
Mach effect pioneer James Woodward breaks down the significance of a leaked paper detailing the successful test run of NASA’s ‘impossible engine.’ Continue reading The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak
