NASA’s EM Drive Still Seems To Work – Update

Here is the latest from their tests and a small change they made.  Yet, it still seemed to work so they will be verifying things going forward:

“I will tell you that we first built and installed a 2nd generation, closed face magnetic damper that reduced the stray magnetic fields in the vacuum chamber by at least an order of magnitude and any Lorentz force interactions it could produce,” commented March in the post on October 28. “And yet the anomalous thrust signals remain…” he added.

The EM Drive is controversial because it violates Newton’s conservation of momentum laws. The EM Drive doesn’t apply any known force on the smaller end of its cone, so the thruster should not move.

Does this really violate Newton’s law?  Some people in the video comment thread disagree.  What do you think?  Feel free to comment with your ideas.

UPDATE:

It turns out that the mandate for NASA to return astronauts to the moon is not the most exciting part of the space agency’s funding bill now moving through the House. The same bill suggests that NASA start to research propulsion technologies that would be used to send the first probe to Alpha Centauri, according to a Monday story in Science.The idea is that the first expedition to the nearest star to our solar system would depart in 2069, the 100th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The language seems to have been included in the bill by Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, the chair of the appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA.

And apparently this is being discussed by congress wow.

thanks to iflscience.com for the great info

thanks to NASA for the pic

thanks to theexaminer.com for the great info



10 Comments

  1. Eric Roth said:

    There was an inventor that developed a perpetually running motor that ran off the earths magnetic pull . His prototype and research was confiscated by govt officials in the 70’s and he was told to stop research on it . He made another working model of the same motor in the 80’s and disappeared . I wonder if this is derived from his confiscated research

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