EM Drive

[raburgeson]

A solid hard look at resonant cavities would suggest that it maybe Tesla inspired in this way. Tesla stated build energy by giving an additional push at the right time. Supposing a chamber is constructed so waves of energy add in one direction, so that all the energy lost on the sides is added to the wave striking one end of a chamber? How do you think it might work?

[wings]

A solid hard look at resonant cavities would suggest that it maybe Tesla inspired in this way. Tesla stated build energy by giving an additional push at the right time. Supposing a chamber is constructed so waves of energy add in one direction, so that all the energy lost on the sides is added to the wave striking one end of a chamber? How do you think it might work?

probably the best example is the boat soliton wave propulsion
http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/solitons/press.html

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/12/schauberger_solitons_and_the_c-print.html

[wings]

probably the best example is the boat soliton wave propulsion
http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/solitons/press.html

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/12/schauberger_solitons_and_the_c-print.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94KzmB2bI7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94KzmB2bI7s
http://rhythmodynamics.com/index_en.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIi5tUupH9c#t=16

[raburgeson]

Very possible, any other thoughts people?

[Staffman]

I personally don't think there is a mystery here. When EM radiation is in transit in free space, it's momentum is independent of the container, relatively speaking. Take a miniature astronaut with a ball inside a box that has a been evacuated of all air. The moment the ball is thrown toward the wall the mass of the box lessens. While the ball is in transit, the mass of the box is independent of the mass of the ball.


In NASA's control test impurities or manufacturing flaws in one side could have been responsible for the force detected. The theory is that an imbalance in an extremely high Q resonant cavity can create a thrust from the momentum of photons, or in this case microwaves. There could have been an imbalance that they did not expect to see. I may be wrong, who knows. I'm sure we don't have to throw out the physics books just yet.


//Edited for grammar... sorry. It was annoying me.//