Is there a working EmDrive?

The EmDrive, copyrighted by its parent company SPR Ltd, theoretically works by trapping microwaves in a shaped chamber where their bouncing produces thrust. The chamber is closed, meaning from the outside, it will appear to simply move without any fuel input or any thrust output.

How fast is the EmDrive?

The NASA experiments say that with an 80 watt input the EmDrive produced 100 micro-newtons of force. If you used that to drive a typical car – it would have a 0–60 time measured in decades!

Is an EmDrive real?

The “EmDrive” claims to make the impossible possible: a method of pushing spacecraft around without the need for — well, pushing. No propulsion. But the EmDrive doesn’t just violate our fundamental understanding of the universe; the experiments that claim to measure an effect haven’t been replicated.

Has the EmDrive been debunked?

In March 2021, physicists at the Dresden University of Technology published three papers claiming that all results showing thrust were false positives, explained by outside forces: When power flows into the EmDrive, the engine warms up. Our measurements refute all EmDrive claims by at least 3 orders of magnitude.

What is NASA EmDrive?

Five years ago, NASA researchers experimented with an object called the EmDrive (or electromagnetic drive), a Y-shaped metal chamber in which, they reported, thrust could be produced without propellant.

Is Caterpillar drive real?

In the story, the Russians build a so-called “caterpillar drive” using hydro-magneto power instead of the traditional propeller. This new drive is way quieter than the traditional type—so quiet that it could sneak up on the United States and blow it up.

Is warp speed possible in real life?

Seriously. Humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds. A new paper proposes a fully physically realized model for warp drive.