Re:EmDrive study officially published
by conistonwater on Saturday November 19, 2016 @03:40PM
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I don't agree at all: being so quick to dismiss energy-momentum conservation is pretty much the same as anything goes. Noether's theorem runs really deep. For an example of an existing (non-crankpot) effort, have a look at the attempts to find Lorentz violations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_searches_for_Lorentz_vi... That's more like what it looks like when people try to do it seriously.
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I don't think this will result in dismissing of conservation of momentum.
But because many thought it did, it's been an incredible uphill battle to get this thing tested; yet throughout tests it shows strange outcomes. Something odd is going on, and perhaps the simple outcome is that we find a better way to perform the tests.
To me, that's a fantastic outcome and I'm dismayed it's taking such a _political_ fight to arrive at it.
Re:EmDrive study officially published
by conistonwater on Saturday November 19, 2016 @03:57PM
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You're wrong if you think this is "political", as you put it.