[Spaceships] Real Life Non-Super Science Reactionless Engines

starslayer · 08-03-2014, 09:07 AM

The em drive is interesting in that it had withstood multiple tests (with Chinese researches saying that they had built there own and it worked as well as publishing there results) but no one can explain WHY it works using physics as we understand it (the original creators explanation not making a lot of sense). On the other hand it's original creator is pretty drop into 'crackpot' land...

Last time I saw numbers attached to this device it was producing real lift and was a full 10x more efficient then an ion engine which still made it several orders of magnitude less efficient then an IC engine. The, already mentioned crackpot, creator convinced that with running it could create IC engine beating efficiencies.

This is the first I've heard of it defeating gravity but not providing acceleration so I would likely attribute that to 'bad article'

With that said mankind has a lot of history using devices that they would not understand the physics behind for a very long time instead achieving initial discovery and incremental improvement via pure trial and error.

08-03-2014, 09:07 AM	#33
starslayer Join Date: Dec 2006	Re: [Spaceships] Real Life Non-Super Science Reactionless Engines The em drive is interesting in that it had withstood multiple tests (with Chinese researches saying that they had built there own and it worked as well as publishing there results) but no one can explain WHY it works using physics as we understand it (the original creators explanation not making a lot of sense). On the other hand it's original creator is pretty drop into 'crackpot' land... Last time I saw numbers attached to this device it was producing real lift and was a full 10x more efficient then an ion engine which still made it several orders of magnitude less efficient then an IC engine. The, already mentioned crackpot, creator convinced that with running it could create IC engine beating efficiencies. This is the first I've heard of it defeating gravity but not providing acceleration so I would likely attribute that to 'bad article' With that said mankind has a lot of history using devices that they would not understand the physics behind for a very long time instead achieving initial discovery and incremental improvement via pure trial and error. Last edited by starslayer; 08-03-2014 at 06:20 PM.