/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14547902

How did so many completely unscientific techniques and beliefs like "molecular clocks" become mainstreamed? The view that DNA mutates at a steady rate is literally just made up. It's not based on evidence of any kind, but everyone uses it. Modern science is full of shit like this. These things aren't even bad science. They're quite simply just not fucking science of any kind.

The EM Drive is basically dead, not even r/EmDrive believes in it anymore, all the latest threads there are calling Shawyer a fraud and Tajmar, White and Yang kooks. No new results for months, just a few failed experiments and endless hyped up clickbait about flying cars and Mars in 5 days. Boeing or Lockheed or whatever have also lost interest.

How did so many of the physics community fall for such obvious bullshit? It was obviously just some unknown experimental error seeing as the thrust is always vanishingly small and near on impossible to replicate.

Eagleworks needs to go, they enabled this bullshit like all the other pseudoscientific sci-fi crap like warp drive that they legitimize to the story-hungry media with the NASA logo. They have produced nothing of value ever.

I am confused. I keep reading about EMdrive, some say it works, others that it violate the very laws of nature.
Is it real?
Why has it not been rigorously tested?
IS anyone going to perform THE definitive non controversial test to either prove or disprove it?
WHEN will we know?

Is it bullshit? Apparently the Chinese are testing it on Tiangong-2 , and the USAF sent up the X-37 with a classified space propulsion test device device.

What's /sci/'s opinion? Surely the Chinese and USAF wouldn't have wasted the money on this if they thought it was bullshit, right?

If it works, what's your theory on how?

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalpaper.stdaily.com%2Fhttp_www.kjrb.com%2Fkjrb%2Fhtml%2F2016-12%2F11%2Fcontent_357004.htm
>This technology is currently in the latter stages of the proof-of-principle phase, with the goal of making the technology available in satellite engineering as quickly as possible,' said Li Feng, chief architect of the China National Space Technology Institute's communications satellite division."
>Li Feng said, Chen Yue team relies on national related project support, is carrying out engineering application of key technology research, for 5 years to achieve engineering applications, "we have mobilized microwave, structure, thermal control, power electronics, on-board electronic systems and other related professional Strength, to do this thing, although difficult, but we have the confidence to make.

China is going to rule space.

Does anyone know what the source is for the clearly bullshit claim that the EM drive can get to the moon in 3 hours when it literally can't produce enough thrust to even lift a tiny fragment of its own weight?? All the clickbait news stories keep repeating it but I don't see where they're getting it from.

Also, why are modern people, with their easy access to the most immense store of data in human history, such god damned retards?

Could it provide an early answer to the last question, /sci/, and reverse the entropy of the universe?

>tfw born just in time to witness the dawn of free energy

No need to worry about entropy or the physics we thought we knew, EmDrive goes "fuck that, ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH".

Prove me wrong. NASA hasn't yet. EmDrive is truly the Trump of science.

>>8355219
>400 feet of graphene coated wire suspended 120 feet in the air

I was wondering if you could use this to power that EM drive they're working on. Get the wires up REALLY high with balloons (over 600 feet) and on a good day you'd get over 100kv. Let the EM drive use the ground cable as a guide wire and power source and it'd shoot up into low orbit. Almost like a mini space elevator.

Does it fuck up physics or does it not?

2nd generation superconducting EmDrive test footage is here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FWeDqG45uk

(you can also see Shawyer and his colleagues discussing Q value of the cavity)

So, I recently heard about the EM drive and how it seems (as I understand?) it actually work and scientists are baffled by it and it might actually open the door to a new spatial era.

Is it true or is it just a buzzhype and I should rather talk about it on /x/?

Anyone here following progress on the EM drive?

Basically, three or four labs have independently detected net thrust from bouncing microwaves around a resonant cavity; right now researchers are focusing on finding any sources of error in the experiments that might explain the effect. So far, it has gone unexplained, and there are whispers that, if it turns out to be real, it might open up entirely new fields of physics, since the measurements appear to violate the conservation on momentum. The measured thrust is small now, but if the findings turn out to be true, it is believed that the amount of thrust could be eventually increased by several orders of magnitude, allowing thrust to be generated without expelling any mass.

http://libertariannews.org//wp-content//uploads//2014//07//AnomalousThrustProductionFromanRFTestDevice-BradyEtAl.pdf

If it turns out to be real, the long-term applications could range from creating true hoverboards, flying cars, jetpacks, hovering battleships, and cheap spaceflight enabling travel to Mars in a matter of weeks and to Pluto in as little as 18 months. Hell, if both this and the Lockheed fusion reactor turn out to work, we could be in for some real futureshock in 10-20 years.

So...it was bullshit, right? I haven't heard anything about it since July.

Supposedly this propulsion system can take us to the moon in as little as 4 hours, Mars 70 days. Is this the key to interstellar travel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hTdSg47h3k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster

Anyone here following progress on the EM drive?

Basically, three or four labs have independently detected net thrust from bouncing microwaves around a resonant cavity; right now researchers are focusing on finding any sources of error in the experiments that might explain the effect. So far, it has gone unexplained, and there are whispers that, if it turns out to be real, it might open up entirely new fields of physics, since the measurements appear to violate the conservation on momentum. The measured thrust is small now, but if the findings turn out to be true, it is believed that the amount of thrust could be eventually increased by several orders of magnitude, allowing thrust to be generated without expelling any mass.

http://libertariannews.org//wp-content//uploads//2014//07//AnomalousThrustProductionFromanRFTestDevice-BradyEtAl.pdf

If it turns out to be real, the long-term applications could range from creating true hoverboards, flying cars, jetpacks, hovering battleships, and cheap spaceflight enabling travel to Mars in a matter of weeks and to Pluto in as little as 18 months. Hell, if both this and the Lockheed fusion reactor turn out to work, we could be in for some real futureshock in 10-20 years.