• It's Official: NASA's Peer-Reviewed EM Drive Paper Has Finally Been Published (and it works)
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[QUOTE]After months of [URL="http://www.sciencealert.com/leaked-nasa-paper-shows-the-impossible-em-drive-really-does-work"]speculation and leaked documents[/URL], NASA's long-awaited EM Drive paper has [I]finally[/I] been peer-reviewed and [URL="http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B36120"]published[/URL]. And it shows that the 'impossible' propulsion system really does appear to work. The NASA Eagleworks Laboratory team even put forward a hypothesis for howthe EM Drive could produce thrust – something that seems impossible according to our current understanding of the laws of physics. In case you've missed the hype, the EM Drive, or Electromagnetic Drive, is a propulsion system first proposed by British inventor Roger Shawyer [URL="https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-has-trialled-an-engine-that-would-take-us-to-Mars-in-10-weeks"]back in 1999.[/URL] [/QUOTE] [URL]http://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-nasa-s-peer-reviewed-em-drive-paper-has-finally-been-published[/URL]
:johnnymo1: this could mean a great leap forward in space exploration and humanity leaving its cradle for the stars
[QUOTE]Of course, this is just one hypothesis, based on one round of tests. There's a lot more work to be done before we can say for sure whether the EM Drive is really producing thrust – the [URL="http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B36120"]team notes[/URL] they that more research is needed to eliminate the possibility that thermal expansion could somehow be skewing the results. [/QUOTE] Would be cool if it does work, as strange as it would be.
[url=https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1542228]A little late on this one[/url]
I'm confused. So it works but they can't explain why? Would this keep them from actually implementing it for real world use? Wouldn't that bring up issues somehow?
[QUOTE=Dirty_Ape;51406541]I'm confused. So it works but they can't explain why? Would this keep them from actually implementing it for real world use? Wouldn't that bring up issues somehow?[/QUOTE] If it does work it means we've gotten something wrong and understand less about the universe than we thought we did I.E, more research is required
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