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> Right now what we have is an unexpected and unexplained effect. It's expected that the people working on this for 15 years would claim to find an effect, sin
by powera 10y ago
> Right now what we have is an unexpected and unexplained effect.
It's expected that the people working on this for 15 years would claim to find an effect, since they clearly have an agenda that they want to be seen as right. It's explained by this very article how there are many reasons other than "propulsion-less thrust" that would cause the reported results.
- kobeya 10y agoExcept that the recent work is by new people who were skeptics trying to refute the idea and failed. That's why people are so interested now while no one cared 15 years ago.
- euyyn 10y ago> new people who were skeptics trying to refute the idea and failed Jelly beans cause acne. But if you investigate further, only green ones. Unless you keep pouring money down the drain with it, in which case it's only the green ones of a certain weight. https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/
- kobeya 10y agoThat has zero relevance to the current situation.
- euyyn 10y agoNo. The relevance is that you aren't going to read of the cases in which someone built the thing and didn't find any effect at all.
- dpark 10y agoGiven the press this has received, negative results for EmDrive seem extremely publishable.
- kobeya 10y agoExcept I have. There have been multiple groups working on this, and they have shared their results. Some published, some on blogs. Some have been unsuccessful in getting their noise floor low enough to detect the effect. Those who have (multiple groups now), have found something. That's why this is interesting. This sort of experiment requires a very expensive, delicate laboratory. No one is going to run a replication of this and then not publish in some form, even on a blog or a conference poster.