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Remember something called "the law of conservation of momentum" from school?
Thanks to that one we can make rockets - right? A fuel burns, gasses are "dumped" and our rockets move in the opposite direction.
What if instead of the fuel we use electricity? And what if we don't have to "fart" anything out of the rocket to make it move?
Sounds crazy?
Crazy or not, seems it does work:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive
No you're not in virual reality, and you're reading it right.
NASA confirmed it.
What, I didn't explain in details how and why exactly does it work? Hell if I know. They don't know either. All they know is that it works.
After this "impulse drive" invention, expect "warp drive" that works against some other physics law next year.
Seems that NASA tested this also in vacuum and - got the same results.
Don't trust the misleading title, this isn't warp as it doesn't move the meteria into some subspace or superspace. It's still impulse:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...-Warp-Field-Still-Generates-Works-In-A-Vacuum
Noone still knows how it works. But it works. So how about using it now and thinking on the cause later?the EMDrive defies science to the point of being near-magic. First of all, it generates thrust in violation of the law of conservation of momentum. More importantly, when you fire lasers through its resonance chamber those beams appear to move faster than light. One possibility is that the EMDrive is generating a small warp field, technology that has widely been considered science fiction for decades.
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