The Impossible Propulsion Drive Is Heading to Space

The EmDrive, a hypothetical miracle propulsion system for outer space, has been sparking heated arguments for years. Now, Guido Fetta plans to settle the argument about reactionless space drives for once and for all by sending one into space to prove that it really generates thrust without exhaust.

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“Meanwhile, theoreticians continue to make new suggestions to reconcile propellantless thrusters with known physics. Michael McCulloch of the University of Plymouth in the U.K. has suggested a solution involving “quantized inertia” which is based on a respectable if unproven phenomenon called Unruh Radiation. A Finnish team recently published a peer-reviewed paper proposing that such a drive could work because of an unseen exhaust of paired photons that cancel out each other’s visible effects but still carry momentum.”

I find that a tad amazing. WTF would you be proposing a theoretical solution to something that is >99.9999% to be bullshit?

Then again, if you were a struggling young fizzy perhaps you’d roll the dice. If the shit worked in space you would be getting calls from every major media company in the world. You’d still most likely be wrong…but you’d be famous :)

It’s not a miracle, it’s not impossible. The fact that e/m has momentum has been well known for over 100 years.

Please don’t reward these people for their spin by describing this gimmick in their own terms.