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I guess maybe I'm confused because what's the point of a cone then? Why not just shoot photons into space?tl;dr: Its shoots undetectable microwaves out of its butt. Microwaves are fed into the chamber, they bounce around and some of them pair with their opposites because statistics (and an idea like resonance I assume), the +1/-1 pair escapes as propellant.
The force created is real, but miniscule. They're talking about a force barely stronger than gravity. The theory is falsifiable. The undetecable field could be detected -- through their interference with the newly credible gravitons?
Or build one hooked up to about 500MW and let it launch itself... or not.Ahh, they claim that the exhaust is photos that cancel each other out. It's a bit silly but not completely retarded, and still fails to address the fact that it requires photos themselves to have mass for it to work, infact it seems to willingly embrace it.
Basically, they believe these photos are emitted from the back with mass, and then immediately get destroyed, cleaning up the evidence. It creates the additional problem of where the fuck that mass is actually going, ect.
They really just need to launch one of these fucking things into space and show if it works, and how well.
I don't understand the point of this. All potential long distance space engines have horrific twr and are incapable of launching themselves from earth.Or build one hooked up to about 500MW and let it launch itself... or not.
What? After it's appeared to demonstrate thrust in multiple independent tests in increasingly controlled environments the opposite is true. Granted it still may be just an aberrant reading of other phenomenon, but every month that goes by without a reasonable refutation of the results is another month plenty of people looking to disprove it fail to do so.Every month that goes by makes the emdrive look like bullshit propagated by bad test setups and worse scientists.
I'm not sure how you ascertained this view. All tests have confirmed that the device functions, and some have been done with credible scientists in credible setups. There's almost certainlySOMETHINGhappening that we don't understand, but I agree that a test in space would help clear up a lot of science and potential issues raised about testing environment.Every month that goes by makes the emdrive look like bullshit propagated by bad test setups and worse scientists.
None of this is a career ender for people if it gets proven to be that the results are because of another factor in the environment that we don't understand. The scientists involved have posed that as a possibility, and it would be a discovery to pin down how and why it was happening.