Sigh. Read some more skeptical articles before you get excited. The scientific hype cycle makes me sad. This has FTL neutrinos (or cold fusion) written all over it.
The big red flag is that each time the experiment is performed more carefully, the effect is smaller. It's already a thousandth of what it was supposed to be. The latest actual research says "yeah we've checked a few things now, but there's still some effect from the wires which we haven't properly taken into account, maybe it's that".
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, and the possibility of some experimental error is not even close to having been eliminated. Sorry.
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Don't get ahead of yourself. This drive would change everything we think we know about physics. Some kind of measurement error is more likely. I choose to be skeptical until one is tested in space and we see it actually happening.
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Sigh. Read some more skeptical articles before you get excited. The scientific hype cycle makes me sad. This has FTL neutrinos (or cold fusion) written all over it.
The big red flag is that each time the experiment is performed more carefully, the effect is smaller. It's already a thousandth of what it was supposed to be. The latest actual research says "yeah we've checked a few things now, but there's still some effect from the wires which we haven't properly taken into account, maybe it's that".
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, and the possibility of some experimental error is not even close to having been eliminated. Sorry.