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Sorry, the EmDrive doesn’t work – Big Think
When Roger Shawyer’s EmDrive was first proposed in 2001, it seemed too good to be true. The proposed electromagnetic drive (“Em” for short) needed no fuel, and…
- The proposed EmDrive captured the public’s imagination with the promise of super-fast space travel that broke the laws of physics.
- Some researchers have detected thrusts from the EmDrive that seemed to prove its validity as a technology.
- A new, authoritative study says, no, those results were just “false positives.”
When Roger Shawyer’s
EmDrive was first proposed in 2001, it seemed too good to be true. The proposed electromagnetic drive (“Em” for short) needed no fuel, and therefore was so lightweight…
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