The study — which was led by physicist Harold "Sonny" White, of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston — found that an EmDrive design generated small amounts of thrust in the lab. These results were leaked online recently, and now the paper has been published, in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Journal of Propulsion and Power.
Development of the EmDrive was begun by British scientist Roger Shawyer about 15 years ago. The engine works by bouncing microwaves around inside a chamber; it requires no propellant and could therefore usher in a new era of superfast and efficient spaceflight, advocates say.
There's just one little issue: The EmDrive shouldn't work..
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2 comments:
One of the funniest remarks I ever heard was when a guy made reference to "the universal laws of physics".Those laws simply do not apply universally,and for one to actually believe that even the most brilliant humans came up with rock solid laws of physics without even stepping off of this planet is absurd.We may have done a little surface scratching,but that's pretty much it.
12:30 That's the beautiful thing about science, we are constantly learning and adapting.
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