[Spaceships] Real Life Non-Super Science Reactionless Engines

[RogerBW]

Originally Posted by Anthony

It's not, but if you have a possibly interesting phenomenon, don't declare it to be something that clearly violates known physics until you've done a rather thorough investigation of the alternatives.

Remember the "FTL particles" story from late 2011? The experimenters said, basically, "we've got timings for a tau neutrino that seem to indicate it's moving faster than light – this is obviously wrong, so please help us debug our experimental setup". It was the mass media that leaped on it with glad cries of "scientists have invented warp drive".