Chinese building Anti Gravity Drive (Emdrive)

ghost101 said:
If I had this device. I'd walk into the physics department at Cambridge University and wouldn't leave until they told me why I was wrong, or I convinced them.
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Which he has already tried and been told its none sense because it doesn't conform. But it still works....

I wouldn't be making youtube videos, or trying to make a device with some random professor in China.
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The video was actually made for his site and re uploaded on youtube.....

You really think such technology would take this long to propagate?
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Depends, have the government known about this tech for a long time and just sat on it? Or has it really taken this long? Who knows.
 
Fenris said:
All I see in the video is some random crap turning around.

What exactly is it supposed to be doing?
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Its violating the laws of physics to float in the air.

The Chinese are building it to see if it can power future space missions.
 
Teki187 said:
As you can see i'm updating my main post with more information, as soon as i find one, i'll post it.
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Ah missed that, cool.

I actually find this rather interesting, I mean so far I am unconvinced, reading comments from experts that say it breaks numerous laws of physics leads me to believe that this may be just smoke and mirrors.

However, the possibility of it being real is kinda cool.
 
When was this paper even out? I swear it crops up on the internet every year or so.

Teki187 said:
Which he has already tried and been told its none sense because it doesn't conform. But it still works....
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Please, show me a shred of evidence for this. Scientists don't use the argument "it doesn't conform" to prove things incorrect.
 
Didn't they say the world was flat once and burned people at the stake for trying to prove otherwise?

I'll keep an open mind
 
mejinks said:
Didn't they say the world was flat once and burned people at the stake for trying to prove otherwise?

I'll keep an open mind
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The guys who said the world was flat had no evidence.

Good luck trying to convince people now, that the world actually is flat.

That is what this is more comparable to.
 
Momentum is conserved. Energy is conserved. Even in quantum mechanics.

I vote this is Chinese propaganda and would be unimpressed were British funding being spent on it.

"People used to think the world was flat" is based on a mistranslation of the anglosaxon word for cloth, though I cannot remember the specifics. Suffice to say that drawing a map on a piece of paper doesn't mean you think the world is flat, just that you struggle to draw in three dimensions.
 
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mejinks said:
Didn't they say the world was flat once and burned people at the stake for trying to prove otherwise?
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No. People knew the world was roughly spherical millenia ago. It was never an issue.

I can feel fairly confident in saying that scientists have never burned anyone at the stake for anything.

I'll keep an open mind
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That doesn't prevent critical thinking.

I consider it possible that this inventor has discovered a workaround for some rather fundamental laws of physics. I just don't consider it likely, not without some much more convincing evidence.

Also...would it really be all that useful if it did exist? It's not like he's claiming thrust from nothing - would it make a more efficient drive than ones we already have?
 
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