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insane that we're still expending any effort on this. I can't imagine a single academic that would assist their own career by putting effort into this boring ps
by gaze 5y ago
insane that we're still expending any effort on this. I can't imagine a single academic that would assist their own career by putting effort into this boring pseudoscientific nonsense.
Like, I guess you could do something like this if you were very late in your career with a little extra money and wanted to shake a stick at some halfwits but it would be very unwise to stick a grad student or postdoc on this unless you didn't care about them.
This whole thing is based on a confusion of group and phase velocity. Makes me so angry.
- lern_too_spel 5y agoThe techniques developed to improve measurement accuracy are more broadly applicable than debunking this particular concept.
- dataflow 5y agoOr more directly, the EM drive claims can also be seen as pointing out inadequacies in our experimental capabilities, and the motivation could be to address that issue.
- imtringued 5y agoIs there a name for the class of scientific problems that can be disproven through experimental capabilities beyond what is currently feasible? Should we invent more such problems to induce urgency and motivation to create better equipment?
- dbt00 5y agoIf you're already 90% of the way to disproving something, and someone else disproves it, might as well finish publishing your result also in case the other proof is weak or just to overwhelm the remaining easily confused supporters. Publishing negative results should be celebrated.
- Kim_Bruning 5y agoI wonder where you stand on the replication crisis. Publishing negative results is important for more reliable science!
- travisporter 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper.... They've been working on getting a lower bound as recently as 2013! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25167384/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25167384/