No Meme Drive Thread??

>It's not an article... This is an American Institute of Physics site
you dont know what 'article' means, do you?

>How, exactly?
see

If something does produce more energy than the input, that does not mean it broke the laws of physics. It means we never understood the laws of physics to begin with. We are bitches to physics, not vice versa.

>that does not mean it broke the laws of physics. It means we never understood the laws of physics to begin with.
wat

>you dont know what 'article' means, do you?
In common parlance it certainly doesn't mean a peer-reviewed paper, that's for sure.

>see
Where does it say 1J of energy = 0.0001N of momentum? I ask because of this:
>We think that this characteristic sensitivity of interference phenomena manifested in the test runs where the mean thrust of 91.2 μN with 16.9 W was recorded at 1932.6 MHz corresponding to the first TM211 mode in the tapered cavity having a quality factor of about 7320 and the mean thrust of 50.1 μN with 16.7 W

Can you explain what this means?

I took ht largest measured thrust to power ratio, which is more than the paper is mentioning, but in this case
91.2 μN from 16.9 W
0.0000912 N from 16.9 J/s
0.0000912 N*s from 16.9 J
0.0000912/16.9 N*s from 1J
0.000005 N*s from 1J

So its actually worse

1932.6 MHz is the frequency they used, but doesn't matter in energy conservation.

TM211 mode I have no idea

quality factor of about 7320 is the fudge factor they use to make the math work.

and they said memes dont real

Thanks, but even if it did all work this idea seems kind of retarded anyway.

Whatever you're using for power generation would likely be a great thing to use for propulsion, wouldn't it? This is just adding a middleman that's not even good at what he does. They could take all this work put into this drive and shift it into comparatively simple fission fragment research. At best this drive is a massive energy hog for the thrust of a giggle fart.

No, that's the point. Also, the meme drive can run without traditional rocket fuel, which if you've ever played Kerbal Space Program, is a miracle. Meme drives run on electricity, so they can be solar powered. Think about satellites that never have to deorbit, or long distance spacecraft that only have to use fuel to get into orbit.

>Think about satellites that never have to deorbit, or long distance spacecraft that only have to use fuel to get into orbit.
I don't play video games, but that sounds like a job for a solar sail in my opinion.

Really long distance spacecraft are still going to need to generate their own electrical power the further they go away from the sun, and at that point it's just easier to use a direct propulsion method and far more efficient. I'm not some kind of expert who understands all this, I'm a nuts and bolts guy myself, but I do understand the basic stuff enough to recognize a problem.

I get the end goal, don't worry, I just think this is a dumb idea to get to it.

meme drive BTFO