And a meteor crashes into the earth tomorrow killing the entire planet, why? That's humanities luck, or just mine...
No its not real.... Your Dreaming Watchit and you need to wake up..... Wake up Watchit.... Wake up....
Ok, so looking into it. The Warp Drive thing and the EM Drive are two different parts of the same awesome thing. The EM drive itself creates thrust without the need of propellant, which by itself if fucking awesome. The whole "warp drive" thing is because when they shot a laser through a scaled down resonance chamber, though this part of the test was not in a vaccum, the light appeared to exceed the speed of light. This is why they thought the EM Drive might be creating warp bubbles. But, that was only from one, non-peer reviewed test as far as I know, so I won't get my hopes up for that anytime soon. Still the EM Drive defying the laws of conservation of momentum is pretty awesome.
science is funny sometimes, they create these 'laws' in order to help better understand what we already know, but when something 'breaks' those laws they go all gaga over it. I'd bet dollars to donuts that the EM drive follows the 'laws' just fine, simply utilizing principles or mechanics that we haven't uncovered as of yet. Two magnets in a vacuum will still repel/attract each other just fine, obviously there's -something- going on between them that we have not yet been able to detect/quantify (our understandings of electromagnetic fields is still somewhat limited, obviously), which may or may not have some explanation for what the EM drive is accomplishing given that it operates on electromagnetic principles.
Eggs-actly! I mean, our current scientific understanding of forces is based on our observations, what we've been able to observe thus far. Cutting edge space science can easily bring new phenomena to our attention that has not been simply possible for us to observe before. Who knows, we might discover whole new forces or dimensions, understanding of which would allow us to dream bigger and actually build new theoretical models that lead to new applications. While it isn't necessarily a beginning for a warp drive, simply having propulsion without reaction mass means that we can simply build the most efficient nuclear or antimatter reactor we can think of and attach it to such an engine and not worry about anything beyond being able to keep the reactor running. Since spacecraft would not have to really worry about running out of fuel if they accidentally use the engine for 100 seconds. The possibilities are enormous, ranging from controlled descent and maybe being able to build large craft that can independently reach orbit to in some cases abandoning Hohmann transfer orbits in favor of more linear travel and even reaching other stars within a human lifetime, as well as colonizing our Solar System. :edit: After reading "why it wouldn't work" I really hope current theories are wrong or at least that they're being misinterpreted by peers and that this actually works, whether it be that they find out that they overlooked some equation or that they'd need to revise whole theories. :edit2: They also say it doesn't break conservation of momentum since electricity is converted to microwaves. It's just that many scientists currently have a hard time accepting that process. Though I think Nasa and Eagleworks are quite credible. In a way, if they said that they made apples fall upwards I think it would be at least worth a look as it's not as if they needed free publicity or so, unlike some smaller groups. :edit3: If it is accidentally also causing warp bubbles, holy fucking shit. Here we come, Alpha Centauri!
