Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> I've heard of it and my son the physicist says
> it's total BS. It will go the way of 'cold
> fusion'.

Hrm. Does that mean belittled, ridiculed, tossed aside then researched to death for decades but never quite completely dropped (like say, free energy machines et al. ) ?

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Frankly... if the experiments are producing heat and not radiation, something is happening however poorly understood right?


But as for the EM drive... does he say no from a gut reaction or has he tried to study out the math?

The first I ever saw of anything like this was something called a Browning field effect (I think that was the name) - it had the idea of running a strong current through a circuit that included a capacitor with a specific material between the plates that would cause the electrons to move from one plate to the other with relativistic speeds, imparting momentum on the far capacitor. From the 40-60's era to the modern day 'lifters' - they are somewhat impractical, but do exhibit the same principle as the EM drive... namely, reactionless thrust.