Fellow Aspirant
4th November 2015, 03:24
The original inventor of the 'emdrive', engineer Roger Shawyer, released his design in 2003, but was ignored by the mainstream tech world because no one believed him.
So, when some Chinese scientists made claims about having created an 'emdrive' engine that was suitable for driving a spacecraft, one that used no fuel beyond a battery powered microwave magnetron, NASA scientists were not just skeptical, they still just bluntly rejected the idea as 'impossible'. Sound familiar?
Now, however, NASA has admitted that they have been successful in building one of their own 'fuelless' engines. :clap2:
They also admitted that they don't know how it works. Such candour. Maybe things are changing a bit at the 'Never a straight answer' factory.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=31709&cid=1&stc=1
There's an excellent, short video at the Digital Trends site:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/researchers-conduct-successful-new-tests-of-emdrive/?&utm_term=DT%20Newsletter
Here's an excerpt from Digital Trends' article:
Isaac Newton should be sweating.
Flying in the face of traditional laws of physics, the EmDrive makes use of a magnetron and microwaves to create a propellant-less propulsion system. By pushing microwaves into a closed, truncated cone and back towards the small end of said cone, the drive creates the momentum and force necessary to propel a craft forward. Because the system is a reaction-less drive, it goes against humankind’s fundamental comprehension of physics, hence its controversial nature.
While these advancements and additions are no doubt a boon for continued research of the EmDrive, the fact that the machine still produced what March calls “anomalous thrust signals” is by far the test’s single biggest discovery. The reason why this thrust exists still confounds even the brightest rocket scientists in the world, but the recurring phenomenon of direction-based momentum does make the EmDrive appear less a combination of errors and more like a legitimate answer to interstellar travel.
Eagleworks Laboratories’ recent successful testing is the latest in a long line of scientific research allowing EmDrive to slowly shed its “ridiculous” title. Though Shawyer unveiled the device in 2003, it wasn’t until 2009 that a group of Chinese scientists confirmed (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/06/emdrive-and-cold-fusion) what he initially asserted to be true — that is, that filling a closed, conical container with resonating microwaves does, in fact, generate a modest amount of thrust towards the wide end of the container. Although extremely cautious about the test, the team in China found the theoretical basis to be correct (http://www.emdrive.com/yang-juan-paper-2012.pdf) and that net thrust is plausible.
Can 'free energy' be next?
Cheers,
Brian
So, when some Chinese scientists made claims about having created an 'emdrive' engine that was suitable for driving a spacecraft, one that used no fuel beyond a battery powered microwave magnetron, NASA scientists were not just skeptical, they still just bluntly rejected the idea as 'impossible'. Sound familiar?
Now, however, NASA has admitted that they have been successful in building one of their own 'fuelless' engines. :clap2:
They also admitted that they don't know how it works. Such candour. Maybe things are changing a bit at the 'Never a straight answer' factory.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=31709&cid=1&stc=1
There's an excellent, short video at the Digital Trends site:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/researchers-conduct-successful-new-tests-of-emdrive/?&utm_term=DT%20Newsletter
Here's an excerpt from Digital Trends' article:
Isaac Newton should be sweating.
Flying in the face of traditional laws of physics, the EmDrive makes use of a magnetron and microwaves to create a propellant-less propulsion system. By pushing microwaves into a closed, truncated cone and back towards the small end of said cone, the drive creates the momentum and force necessary to propel a craft forward. Because the system is a reaction-less drive, it goes against humankind’s fundamental comprehension of physics, hence its controversial nature.
While these advancements and additions are no doubt a boon for continued research of the EmDrive, the fact that the machine still produced what March calls “anomalous thrust signals” is by far the test’s single biggest discovery. The reason why this thrust exists still confounds even the brightest rocket scientists in the world, but the recurring phenomenon of direction-based momentum does make the EmDrive appear less a combination of errors and more like a legitimate answer to interstellar travel.
Eagleworks Laboratories’ recent successful testing is the latest in a long line of scientific research allowing EmDrive to slowly shed its “ridiculous” title. Though Shawyer unveiled the device in 2003, it wasn’t until 2009 that a group of Chinese scientists confirmed (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/06/emdrive-and-cold-fusion) what he initially asserted to be true — that is, that filling a closed, conical container with resonating microwaves does, in fact, generate a modest amount of thrust towards the wide end of the container. Although extremely cautious about the test, the team in China found the theoretical basis to be correct (http://www.emdrive.com/yang-juan-paper-2012.pdf) and that net thrust is plausible.
Can 'free energy' be next?
Cheers,
Brian