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Re:Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does ... by dotancohen on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:02AM (#26659932) 

  > I guess my point is this. There has to be a cutoff
  > where a claim is too obviously incorrect and testing
  > is simply not useful any more.
Such as claims of giant lizards ruling the Earth, or claims that all matter (and time!) was once a singularity, or claims that man had descended from - get this - apes?
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Re:Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does ... by prof-dr-ir on Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:31AM (#26661730)
Emphatically not. There is an important difference between 'outlandish' and 'in flagrant contradiction with billions of experimental results [0]'.

I am not saying that the difference is always easy to spot, but I think that you cannot deny that it exists.

[0] For a crude estimate, see 'number of collisions per second' at https://home.cern/resources/faqs/facts-and-figures-about-lhc . And those people are looking really hard for possible violations of the law of conservation of momentum: in this context it is called 'missing transverse energy' and it is a key method in the search for new physics.

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