NASA reportedly broke the speed of light

av8tr1

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"Never tell me the odds!"
"The NASA engineers also reported that they'd fired lasers into the EM Drive's resonance chamber and that some of the laser beams had traveled faster than the speed of light, at around 300,000 kilometers per second... suggesting that the EM Drive may have produced a warp bubble like the kind that allows travel faster than the speed of light in Star Trek."

http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-ha...ake-us-to-Mars-in-10-weeks?platform=hootsuite

HOW IS THIS NOT ON EVERY SINGLE FRONT PAGE???? This is real. But no we get treated to shocking head line news such as no phone jack in new Iphone, some kid enjoys cotton candy. NADA about NASA braking the speed of light. Something current understanding of physics says isn't possible. Seriously, the EM drive is like the wright brothers first flight. Roger Shawyer should be showered in money and women for the rest of his life.

@Derg You gonna make that space flight sub forum yet or what?
 
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While I think that sounds pretty damn cool, the article left it in my mind as being REALLY "theoretical" at this point. The truth is, while stuff like this interests you and me, and probably a bunch of other nerds, most people don't care. it just doesn't effect them. When we make a ship that can go to Mars in 70 days, then people will care.

Just like people cared when the first manned flight took place, no one gave two craps when some guy said "Hey, I think I just discovered how the shape of an airfoil effects lift!"
 
poser765 said:
While I think that sounds pretty damn cool, the article left it in my mind as being REALLY "theoretical" at this point. The truth is, while stuff like this interests you and me, and probably a bunch of other nerds, most people don't care. it just doesn't effect them. When we make a ship that can go to Mars in 70 days, then people will care.

Just like people cared when the first manned flight took place, no one gave two craps when some guy said "Hey, I think I just discovered how the shape of an airfoil effects lift!"
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Yeah, this is more like "We broke physics and now have to rewrite all the books".
 
av8tr1 said:
Yeah, this is more like "We broke physics and now have to rewrite all the books".
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If it turns out we actually DID break physics...

I'm not going to lie, though, that article hit me in right in the wonder lust bone. I can easily imagine a world where I am sitting on reserve, not in LA, but in the Nevada desert. "Yeah, Wife, I just got a trip. Yeah not to bad, I do an overnight at Luna 01 then a Deimos Turn."
 
poser765 said:
If it turns out we actually DID break physics...

I'm not going to lie, though, that article hit me in right in the wonder lust bone. I can easily imagine a world where I am sitting on reserve, not in LA, but in the Nevada desert. "Yeah, Wife, I just got a trip. Yeah not to bad, I do an overnight at Luna 01 then a Deimos Turn."
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Yeah, not going to complain as much about overnights or even multiday trips at that point.
 
The unit/engine has been around for a while and still being tested/studied. The next step is to test it in space. The first accepted paper on it was just recently peer reviewed and about to be published in the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power.

Here's a more up to date article from last month which is really good and includes a timeline history:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/emdrive-news-rumors/


 
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poser765 said:
If it turns out we actually DID break physics...

I'm not going to lie, though, that article hit me in right in the wonder lust bone. I can easily imagine a world where I am sitting on reserve, not in LA, but in the Nevada desert. "Yeah, Wife, I just got a trip. Yeah not to bad, I do an overnight at Luna 01 then a Deimos Turn."
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That's pretty much what I was promised when I was a kid.

But we have a super stretch 737 and anti-Vaxxers.
 
Well, you really have to wait for this to be peer reviewed.. As of now it's just as valid as the SLC base Compass is opening, right @jtrain609? EM Drive is a cool concept, but still, in theory would not allow the object it's propelling to travel faster than the speed of light.. Bending space takes an extraordinary amount of energy and its unlikely they've achieved it using only 2.5Kw... Last year another research group thought they exceeded the speed of sound as well and when they posted their research up for peer review it was found to have been invalid due to a faulty clock used during the research.

With that said, I hope it's found to be accurate--it would change the world... universe..
 
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Well, you really have to wait for this to be peer reviewed.. .
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From the article link in my post above:

An EmDrive paper has finally been accepted by peer review

"Originally, this article pointed out that previous studies and papers on the EmDrive have either not been submitted, or passed peer review. Those days are in the past, however, given a NASA Eagleworks’ paper on the EmDrive test which has reportedly passed the peer review process and will soon be published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power.

This is an important step for the EmDrive as it adds legitimacy to the technology and the tests done thus far, opening the door for other groups to replicate the tests. This will also allow other groups to devote more resources to uncovering why and how it works, and how to iterate on the drive to make it a viable form of propulsion. So, while a single peer-reviewed paper isn’t going to suddenly equip the human race with interplanetary travel, it’s the first step toward eventually realizing that possible future."
 
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