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> Why after several positive tests, has the physics community not gone full throttle to try and disprove it, like they did with cold fusion? No one has any fun
by arcanus 10y ago
> Why after several positive tests, has the physics community not gone full throttle to try and disprove it, like they did with cold fusion?
No one has any funding to research it. Despite the press, no major research agency is backing efforts to investigate the effect.
Cold fusion actually did get serious funding back in the 80s, which made it 'higher profile' to the scientific community.
I'll add that cold fusion seemed more plausible. In that it did not violate extremely well understood fundamental principles of physics, e.g. conservation of momentum. While incorrect, cold fusion was at least on the face of it a sensible inquiry at one time.
The EM drive has extremely compelling reasons to ellicit extreme skepticism from the scientific community at large.
- mordant 10y ago>In that it did not violate extremely well understood fundamental principles of physics Cold fusion violated the fundamental principle of 'Where are all the dead grad students caught up in the neutron flux?'.