This particular propulsion system is actually worthy of getting excited about. Sure, warp drive concepts are fascinating, and who’s to say they couldn’t be done one day but the EM Drive concept is something here and now:
Over the past year, there’s been a whole lot of excitement about the electromagnetic propulsion drive, or EM Drive – a scientifically impossible engine that’s defied pretty much everyone’s expectations by continuing to stand up to experimental scrutiny.
The drive is so exciting because it produces huge amounts of propulsion that could theoretically blast us to Mars in just 70 days, without the need for heavy and expensive rocket fuel. Instead, it’s apparently propelled forward by microwaves bouncing back and forth inside an enclosed chamber, and this is what makes the drive so powerful, and at the same time so controversial.
As efficient as this type of propulsion may sound, it defies one of the fundamental concepts of physics – the conservation of momentum, which states that for something to be propelled forward, some kind of propellant needs to be pushed out in the opposite direction.
Let’s find out more on how they proved the skeptics wrong and check out the video on page 2
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This isnt the concept for a warp drive. its interesting but doesnt provide near enough to be used as an actual propulsion system. Come on SS. Dont use the hype machine. you can do better then that.
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@[100003095633534:2048:David Burger] ? Whats ur thoughts
Except not.
http://io9.com/no-german-scientists-have-not-confirmed-the-impossibl-1720573809
This is fascinating; however, the narrator is the worst narrator in the world!!!!!!
Haven’t ever heard of this before
Me either if its true it sounds promising..
Sounds like crap personally but can’t say didn’t give Enough info, which also makes me think it’s total crap.
It works but it can’t do what they say. That’s like saying a light bulb can microwave a steak
Yea this isn’t true the propulsion is very minimal
No warp drive yet from what I read…:-(. One day. One day we will bodly go where no man has gone before.
I will be first in line to traverse the stars
Same here with Jayney Lein!
I would like to have my own system, build a star forge and build a fleet of exploration /science war vessels.
Fake
Maybe it has low output but we do not know how it will react in micro gravity, with temperatures a little above absolute zero, in a true vacuum and many more variables. It needs tested outside of our, and the moons, magnetic field to really know what it is capable of doing.
It may take a secondary populsion system or a launch and positioning vehicle.
Nice how your article states it’s doesn’t work then goes no to state that it does appear to work in some capacity but needs peer review….. so unfounded skepticism…. nice…
Hey, it has propulsion. That’s all that matters. The first aircraft flew only a couple hundred feet if that (my memory is not great). The point is that everything has to start somewhere.
@[713852473:2048:David Nelson]. cause I know you love this as much as I do! You probably know more about this than I do already!
I guarantee that we have way more advanced technology than our government admits. They would just rather use it to kill than advance humanity.
Propulsion in a vacuum doesn’t need to be strong.
The effect becomes exponential
Unexplainable positive results don’t necessarily mean in works. lrn2sienc
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I’ll take 4.
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Who needs propulsion when you have stargate technology. Apparently there are natural and engineered gates or wormholes or whatever you want to call them. Propulsion is necessary for short trips in space but we can already open up a gate that would put us on Mars or anywhere else in seconds not days lol. Just wait…disclosure is coming…
Yet another “fact” that scientists had wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I love science, but science needs to stop trying to make “laws” that are actually just theories…
Cold fussion impossible ok
The wright brothers had no clue about aerodynamic theory . But they flew and others figured out how they did it. People often forget that breakthroughs are not always understood at the time. Another case in point is microwave technology. It was found during development of radar. A scientist left his sandwich in front of a transducer and came back to it and it had melted
I didn’t know that last bit!! Nice.
Yah I thought that microwaves were invented in the 60s because of the space program. Didn’t know it went back to the late 30s
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You don’t need as much power in space because there is no drag like on earth .you need an infinite power source to travel millions or billions of miles.
Really really huge easy bake oven. Lol
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Oh yea… shoot a gamma ray at it n see if it still works.
Sadly you are only one of many crazy dudes on the interwebs peace.
The same technology could though. It needs improvement just like anything new.
Well there is no drag as in air, gravity is still present, gravity exist everywhere. You could never truly escape it.
True but you could maintain a steady speed at the right velocity. Close to light speed the gravity would be minimal right?
Actually you would generate enormous amounts of gravity yourself. Gavity and inertia are the same thing in reletivity. Also tag me in comments so I know you replied.
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