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This Reddit post (from a few months ago, actually) lists several things in the patent that just sounds like gibberish to someone educated in physics: https://w
by electrograv 7y ago
This Reddit post (from a few months ago, actually) lists several things in the patent that just sounds like gibberish to someone educated in physics:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDrive/comments/bgr3ex/comment/elpenak https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDrive/comments/bgr3ex/comment/elp...
That said, you’ll always be able to find a way to explain away the weirdness if you speculate: Maybe they wanted the patent, but wanted to dissuade other people from reproducing the tech. One effective of doing this could be to actually patent a design that itself works, but is accompanied by a theoretical description that comes across as a joke / gibberish to any educated scientist. That would (and does, as you can see here) shut down most educated scientists interest in the topic immediately.
I’m not saying I believe that’s the case, just that we can always find a way to believe what we want to believe; belief is very dangerous in that way. (Generally, it’s best to just absorb evidence and withhold any “belief” until you absolutely have to make a binary decision.)
Therefore, I think speculation is pointless: Instead, we should just try to build what is described here, and see if it works or not.