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It would be lovely if it was true, but it isn't. The drive is neither confirmed, nor disproved - considering that it contradicts very basic laws of physics, "not being disproved" is a hell of achievement already.
The issue, though, is that the thrust is so tiny, that until it's tested in space, it won't be neither disproved or confirmed in a way that will end all speculations. That comes to the main problem - to reliably test it in space we'd need to move it reasonably far away from earth LEO (maybe GEO or L2) to avoid interference from debris and earth's magnetic field. We would need to supply a lot of power to it to be able to measure results (at least a strong RTG would be needed). This all means that it would be expensive as hell - and nobody wants to foot the bill to test a device that gets results just slightly above the measurement error levels...
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[–] RayLomas 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
It would be lovely if it was true, but it isn't. The drive is neither confirmed, nor disproved - considering that it contradicts very basic laws of physics, "not being disproved" is a hell of achievement already.
The issue, though, is that the thrust is so tiny, that until it's tested in space, it won't be neither disproved or confirmed in a way that will end all speculations. That comes to the main problem - to reliably test it in space we'd need to move it reasonably far away from earth LEO (maybe GEO or L2) to avoid interference from debris and earth's magnetic field. We would need to supply a lot of power to it to be able to measure results (at least a strong RTG would be needed). This all means that it would be expensive as hell - and nobody wants to foot the bill to test a device that gets results just slightly above the measurement error levels...