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Poor title. It is sad to see academic descend into click-baitness. Even the abstract does not tell you the key point of the paper. The most one gets from the ab
by njarboe 8y ago
Poor title. It is sad to see academic descend into click-baitness. Even the abstract does not tell you the key point of the paper. The most one gets from the abstract is:
Our results show that the magnetic interaction from not sufficiently shielded cables or thrusters are a major factor that needs to be taken into account for proper µN thrust measurements for these type of devices.
Reading the paper one can finally get to what we want to know, "Do these thrusters work?" The answer is no and/or can't tell yet.
Under the EMDrive section:
This clearly indicates that the “thrust” is not coming from the EMDrive but from some electromagnetic interaction.
Under the Mach-Effect section:
This again indicates that there must be some electromagnetic interaction or thermally induced center of mass shift that is masking any real thrust value.
Edit - I did not read the whole paper but skimmed for these descriptions of if they found any real thrust signal.