Top 10 Facts about Roger Shawyer’s EmDrive

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Top 10 Facts About Roger Shawyer’s EmDrive

Whether you’re a physicist, a space nerd or an innocent by-stander, the outrageous headlines about Roger Shawyer’s EmDrive have probably reached you at some point in the last five years. Grabby headlines say it is the key to interstellar travel for humans because it can reduce the amount of time it takes to travel through the solar system. If you go by the headlines, it has put mankind significantly closer to being able to travel to distant planets within a few generations. Some believe that the EmDrive even creates the possibility of creating

the once-fabled warp drives that were a possibility only in science fiction novels.

There is no doubt that the EmDrive is one of the most exciting potential discoveries in space travel and physics. However, it also remains one of the most enigmatic modern technologies known today. Far more theories are known about the EmDrive than actual facts; however, that has started to change as scientists have begun to embrace the possibility that the invention might be the real deal.

Here are the top 10 neat facts about Roger Shawyer’s fabled EmDrive:

10The EmDrive Was Designed in 2001 by Roger Shaywer of Satellite Propulsion Research Ltd.

It’s electric baby!

9The EmDrive Does Not Need Fuel

The EmDrive don’t need no stinking fuel!

8The EmDrive Defies Newton’s Third Law?

Newton and the EmDrive. Are they incompatible?

7The EmDrive Is a Radio Frequency Resonant Cavity Thruster

Not this kind of Radio.

6Shawyer’s Claims Rested Primarily on His Own Unverified Tests

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5NASA Validated Its Potential in 2014

NASA confirmed the EmDrive

4The Chinese Validated Shawyer’s Proposition Even Earlier than NASA

The Chinese have duplicated the EmDrive’s results

3Shawyer Is Not the First to Try to Overcome Newton’s Laws of Motion

Did Mr. Dean have an aluminum foil hat. Maybe.

2If It’s True, There Are Plenty of Applications for Reactionless Drive

EmDrive powered penny loafers.

1The EmDrive Can Produce Warp Bubbles?

Ludicrous speed ahead?