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Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens to premiere December 18 while NASA cracks secret to interstellar space travel in labs!
NASA tests WARP DRIVE capable of blasting ships from
Earth to the Moon in just FOUR hours
NASA is believed to be testing a
Warp Drive
which could one day blast a manned spaceship FASTER than the speed of light.
Tue, Nov 3,
2015, 10:31AM EST -
In a new round of testing, NASA confirms yet again that the 'impossible'
EMdrive thruster works
By Rick Stella
Engineer Roger Shawyer’s controversial EM Drive thruster jets back into
relevancy this week, as a team of researchers at NASA’s Eagleworks Laboratories
recently completed yet
another round of testing on the seemingly impossible tech. Though no
official peer-reviewed lab paper has been published yet, and NASA
institutes strict press release restrictions on the Eagleworks lab these days,
engineer Paul March took to the NASA Spaceflight forum to explain
the group’s findings. In essence, by utilizing an improved experimental
procedure, the team managed to mitigate some of the errors from prior tests —
yet still found signals of unexplained thrust.
Isaac Newton should be sweating.
Flying in the face of traditional laws of physics, the EM Drive makes use of a magnetron and
microwaves to create a propellantless propulsion system. By pushing
microwaves into a closed, truncated cone and back towards the small end of said
cone, the drive creates the momentum and force necessary to propel a craft
forward. Because the system is a reactionless drive, it goes against humankind’s
fundamental comprehension of physics, hence its controversial nature.
On the NASA spaceflight forums, March revealed as much as he could about the
advancements that have been made with EM
Drive and its relative technology. After
apologizing for not having the ability to share pictures or the supporting data
from a peer-reviewed lab paper, he starts by explaining (as straightforward as
rocket science can get) that the Eagleworks lab successfully built and
installed a 2nd generation magnetic damper which helps reduce stray magnetic
fields in a vacuum chamber. The addition reduced magnetic fields by an order of
magnitude inside the chamber, and also decreased Lorentz
force interactions.
However, despite ruling out Lorentz forces almost entirely, March still
reported a contamination caused by thermal expansion. Unfortunately, this reported
contamination proves even worse in a vacuum (i.e. outer space) due in large
part to its inherently high level of insulation. To combat this, March
acknowledged the team is now developing an advanced analytics tool to assist in
the separation of the contamination, as well as an integrated test which aims
to alleviate thermally induced errors altogether.
While these advancements and additions are no doubt a boon for continued
research of the EM Drive, the fact that the machine still produced what March
calls “anomalous thrust signals” is by far the test’s single biggest discovery.
The reason why this thrust exists still confounds even the brightest rocket
scientists in the world, but the recurring phenomenon of
direction-based momentum does make the EM Drive appear less a combination of
errors and more like a legitimate answer to interstellar travel.
At this time, it’s unknown when Eagleworks Laboratories intends to
officially publish its peer-reviewed paper, however, hearing of the EM Drive’s
advancements from one of its top engineers bodes well for the future of this
fascinating tech.
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