The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?
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The EM Drive: Fact or Fantasy?

B1IntermediateNovember 12, 202618 min
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They've flooded in since Eagleworks Labs published a paper detailing their tests of an EM drive in a hard vacuum chamber.

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Today, we inaugurate the Space Time Journal Club by taking a very careful look at this result.

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Welcome aboard VIA Rail. Please sit and enjoy. Please sit and sip. Play. Post. Taste. View. And enjoy. VIA Rail. Love the way. One of Spacetime's most requested topics is the controversial EM Drive.

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They've flooded in since Eagleworks Labs published a paper detailing their tests of an EM drive in a hard vacuum chamber. Those tests were consistent with a positive result, a real thrust. Today, we inaugurate the Space Time Journal Club by taking a very careful look at this result. We've avoided the EM drive in the past because the results were inconclusive and the proposed

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physics was either very wrong or way too speculative. We walk a fine line as science communicators. Talking about hypey stuff is fun and popular, but it skews the public impression of what is credible and what is not.

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