Alas the paradox of the EM drive thrust is that nothing observable or known escapes the sealed system, so no photons leaving… perhaps gravitons or Cherenkov magnetons are escaping but that’s tantamount to the propellant being dark matter. The latter might not be so far-fetched if one imagines the captured and focused microwave photons ricocheting back and forth in the wave guide are being sorted so as to be knocking strange matter particles preferentially in one direction. Those strange matter propellent particles in the wave guide have a character of a near infinite numbers via the poly-dimensional aether. The variety of replications and characteristics and Shawyers predictions for vast improvement in thrust by improving the rampant ricochet of the microwave photons seems to demand a simple Newtonian momentum solution that mystery mischugenon particles work nicely to enable. Might a swarm of a million tiny gnats make a herd of elephants move in one direction, I say yes. Cherenkov’s particles http://www.journaloftheoretics.com/articles/4-4/ar.pdf
From: Eric Walker [mailto:eric.wal...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 7:37 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: EM Drive(s) On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com <mailto:frobertc...@hotmail.com> > wrote: If a pulsed magnetic field is involved in the EM drive it may be that effective momentum is sent off into space as a pulsed magnetic field with some effective mass associated with the average intensity of the magnetic field pulse—energy associated with the pulse. This is along the lines that I was thinking. Consider a simple thought experiment. We have a microwave waveguide with the output focused in a single direction sitting out in the middle of space where there is little in the way of an external field. Attached to it is a battery sufficient to drive a magnetron at 10 W for some period of time. We turn on the magnetron remotely. Microwave photons with a total power amounting to 10 J per second are now being emitted in a preferred direction. For the sake of argument we will go with the well-accepted assumption that photons have no mass. Nonetheless they have momentum, and in order for the system to conserve momentum it will move in a direction opposite the majority of the photons. We have yet not specified what the system is pushing off of, but I don't think we need to in order for the thought experiment to work. Eric
