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Originally Posted by FlameOn
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The Eagleworks team measured far lower than that, that was a Chinese test. The two tests give wildly different results. That and all the information about this is second hand, hearsay and poor reporting, "NASA itself" hasn't found anything, there's nothing about this published on any NASA website, just private posts on a forum by an engineer.
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Originally Posted by FlameOn
At the very least this deserves a bit of investigation to try to figure out why.
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I'd be satisfied with rigorous investigation, the first test of the Eagleworks team was incredibly poor and their report consisted mostly of elaborate and fanciful (and detailed!) descriptions of EM Drive missions to Mars and the moons of Saturn. That's like planning 747s when you notice a flat piece of paper falls slower through air than a wadded up piece of paper, very much not how science is done.
This second round includes lots of similar stuff including a part where their Mars mission creates energy out of nothing by producing more kinetic energy than the nuclear reactor puts out.
They even use the term "mainstream physics community"
The pattern of how this is being done is closer to free energy nonsense than actual science, Eagleworks needs to be a lot less pie in the sky imagining and a lot more grounded in their tests and reporting.
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Originally Posted by FlameOn
You are getting the Alcubierre drive (FTL) mixed up with the Resonate Cavity Thruster or EMDrive (sublight).
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No he's right, the Eagleworks team also claim they measured that this EM Drive warps space time, the same measurement this team was earlier trying to make with a different device.. So it's not just a reactionless drive, but also the beginnings of an Alcubierre drive.
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Originally Posted by FlameOn
See NASA link above.
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There is no NASA link above, that link is as much NASA as this forum is Calgary Flames.
I think they should continue to test until they prove something for sure (likely proving that they weren't accounting for some known phenomenon). But to say that these guys who can't even seem to write a reasonable paper are overthrowing both conservation of momentum as well as relativity is at the very least hugely premature.
When Einstein revolutionized physics, he could at least write a cogent paper about it.