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Interesting development may have happened (or may not have happened, nothing is confirmed yet)...
Anyway.. We've talked about this over the past several years, and I've detailed Harold White's Warp Field experiments on RCF before. NASA has been providing funding to EagleWorks which is an experimental future technology development company that tests far-out propulsion concepts like "reactionless drives" and White's pet project, the Warp Drive.
About two weeks ago, the EagleWorks team conducted some interferometer tests (basically passing a laser through a field) while testing an EM Drive (a device that has no conventional reaction mass)...
Long story short, they found that certain laser beams, when passing through the cavity of the EM Drive's resonator, travelled 40 times faster than what would be expected (a sub-c velocity).
In two months, the team will have a hard vacuum setup and will conduct these tests again. Assuming this can be reproduced by others, warp drive will have moved from the drawing board and into reality.
The team could potentially prove this within the next 6 months...
Personally, I've always been a bit skeptical because the EagleWorks team is relying on some very untraditional science. My own personal background in physics and my understanding of these concepts does not support their conclusions. But empirical data speaks louder than favorited theories.
I'm cautiously optimistic? Not really.. I'm actually quite skeptical, as in, I'd bet everything I own this won't happen (again, from a scientific standpoint, I don't agree with their interpretations). But, I hope I'm wrong.
p.s.
The most remarkable part about all of this isn't even the warp field results, but the fact that the EmDrive actually produced 4x the expected thrust.. Again, I'm not one to think the EmDrive actually works, I think it probably doesn't but I'm not on the team.
However, if it did, it would change everything we think about propulsion, travel, and fuel used for either purpose. When I say that, I'm saying that the EmDrive technology would make the combustion engine obsolete. When you think about the application here, you realize how much our world would change.
Again, I'm not buying it yet... But, this data is very hard to account for... Either their results are wrong, and not reproducible for various reasons; or.. something else has to account for what we're seeing.
We're expecting an academic paper to be released "any day now" from the EagleWorks team.
Anyway.. We've talked about this over the past several years, and I've detailed Harold White's Warp Field experiments on RCF before. NASA has been providing funding to EagleWorks which is an experimental future technology development company that tests far-out propulsion concepts like "reactionless drives" and White's pet project, the Warp Drive.
About two weeks ago, the EagleWorks team conducted some interferometer tests (basically passing a laser through a field) while testing an EM Drive (a device that has no conventional reaction mass)...
Long story short, they found that certain laser beams, when passing through the cavity of the EM Drive's resonator, travelled 40 times faster than what would be expected (a sub-c velocity).
In two months, the team will have a hard vacuum setup and will conduct these tests again. Assuming this can be reproduced by others, warp drive will have moved from the drawing board and into reality.
The team could potentially prove this within the next 6 months...
Personally, I've always been a bit skeptical because the EagleWorks team is relying on some very untraditional science. My own personal background in physics and my understanding of these concepts does not support their conclusions. But empirical data speaks louder than favorited theories.
I'm cautiously optimistic? Not really.. I'm actually quite skeptical, as in, I'd bet everything I own this won't happen (again, from a scientific standpoint, I don't agree with their interpretations). But, I hope I'm wrong.
p.s.
The most remarkable part about all of this isn't even the warp field results, but the fact that the EmDrive actually produced 4x the expected thrust.. Again, I'm not one to think the EmDrive actually works, I think it probably doesn't but I'm not on the team.
However, if it did, it would change everything we think about propulsion, travel, and fuel used for either purpose. When I say that, I'm saying that the EmDrive technology would make the combustion engine obsolete. When you think about the application here, you realize how much our world would change.
Again, I'm not buying it yet... But, this data is very hard to account for... Either their results are wrong, and not reproducible for various reasons; or.. something else has to account for what we're seeing.
We're expecting an academic paper to be released "any day now" from the EagleWorks team.
