[Spaceships] Real Life Non-Super Science Reactionless Engines

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

I really think 'we have a reactionless drive and it turns out we don't understand its mechanism' would be enormously exciting. The incremental excitement of 'also, we know how to make it not work' seems rather minor.

To understand why this is a problem, consider substituting a lightbulb for the device. You turn it off and continue to measure the same amount of light. Which is more likely (a) you have invented a lightbulb that doesn't need electricity or (b) your photometer is broken.