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In this case different tests have occurred at different power levels. Has anyone normalized the results? Of course with only a couple replications its early for

• dogma1138 11y ago
  In this case the tests weren't even normalized, this is one of the 1st tests that was conducted in vacuum under shielding, many of the earlier tests were not even thermally or electromagnetically shielded, considering the tiny amounts of thrust generated by both the "predictions" and the tests pressure difference due to thermal variance as well as magnetic forces could explain it just as well. I also have a strong gut feeling that this some none issue but it never hurts to test it the US, Russia, China and to lesser Extent the UK, France and other European powers have all conducted studies into ESP, the cost of such testing is ridiculously low compared to the potential discovery. When it costs near to nothing to explore a phenomenon that can change how we understand physics it's worth exploring no matter how ridiculous it is.
• gus_massa 11y ago
  Someone compiled here a list of experiments: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36313.msg1302455#msg1302455 http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36313.msg13... I think that the best metric is to compare this with the maximal Force/Power ratio that is consistent with a "massless" thruster and special relativity, (i.e. a laser beam, photon thruster, ...). In this case the Force/Power ratio is at most 1/c, that is 0.0033 uN/W = 0.0033 mN/KW. The results in the table vary from 3x to 200000x the theoretical maximum if we assume that this doesn't break the conservation of momentum, special relativity and quantum mechanics.