I have been considering doing an experiment using a magnet or magnets to drive a custom capacitor stack(polyurethane or other plastic as the dielectric) in a bull motor setup after reading the paper on asymmetric magnetic fields to drive mach effects. Not to different from another posters experiment but with a similar reaction Mass to the current MEGA drive design. I think this setup should counter the bulk acceleration issue with the MLTs. But I am just a layman with rust electronics experience and am wondering if there is any absolute requirements I am missing? I do also have a question in relation to the rubber pads used MEGA drive so far but I don't want to push my idiot bar to far...
Hi, new here. Reading through things and just a bit confused. What's the current status of the Mach effect thruster? Verdict still out? Anything new or promising or are things headed the way of the em drive?
Answering the above question if they did find something nifty then they may have to hide it because ...
Years ago, someone (I think QuantumG?) made a profound suggestion:“Chuck it out of an airlock”.If it accelerates, then…Ric
... Dr. Woodward is looking for practical technology to change the inertial mass - not just an array of capacitors or piezoelectric elements, no, no no, he is trying to change the inertia of atomic particles, atoms, electrons .. or even quarks that make up the atoms of piezoelectric elements....It seems to me that this is a very difficult technical task, since in a solid body atoms (or quarks) are somehow very strongly connected (by large nuclear forces). And each atom makes chaotic thermal vibrations in a very rigid crystal lattice, at a very high frequency.... But maybe inertia can be somehow .. polarized ...If inertia can be polarized, then a polarized inertia damper can be built. This will be a device for polarizing the absorbed pulse. When , for example, any input pulse is automatically distributed over orthogonal vectors, but asymmetrically.Then any rocket can easily catch (with a polarized inertia damper) its spent reactive mass and return it back to the motor for reuse. For the recovery of Not energy, but for the recovery of matter - "mass".==
Hey! Question on a subject. ...
Quoting Chris Bergin from a different thread;"Objective skeptical inquiry is strongly welcome...."I am always happy to see new activity in these threads but this is not a place for wild speculation.
Quoting Chris Bergin from a different thread;"Objective skeptical inquiry is strongly welcome. Disagreements should be expressed politely, concentrating on the technical, engineering and scientific aspects, instead of focusing on people. As such, the use of experimental data, mathematics, physics, engineering, drawings, spreadsheets and computer simulations are strongly encouraged, while subjective wordy statements are discouraged."Here is what I think might be on-topic from the above post, I will think about this some more, a likely result is to remove the off topic sections entirely.Quote from: Alex_O on 01/13/2023 04:10 pm... Dr. Woodward is looking for practical technology to change the inertial mass - not just an array of capacitors or piezoelectric elements, no, no no, he is trying to change the inertia of atomic particles, atoms, electrons .. or even quarks that make up the atoms of piezoelectric elements....It seems to me that this is a very difficult technical task, since in a solid body atoms (or quarks) are somehow very strongly connected (by large nuclear forces). And each atom makes chaotic thermal vibrations in a very rigid crystal lattice, at a very high frequency.... But maybe inertia can be somehow .. polarized ...If inertia can be polarized, then a polarized inertia damper can be built. This will be a device for polarizing the absorbed pulse. When , for example, any input pulse is automatically distributed over orthogonal vectors, but asymmetrically.Then any rocket can easily catch (with a polarized inertia damper) its spent reactive mass and return it back to the motor for reuse. For the recovery of Not energy, but for the recovery of matter - "mass".==I am always happy to see new activity in these threads but this is not a place for wild speculation.
Quote from: Alex_O on 01/13/2023 04:10 pmHey! Question on a subject. ...You've probably heard of the wee-ooo claims that the Egyptians levitated those huge blocks of limestone into the pryamids by using sound. It seemed to me to be a good hypothesis in priniciple, but not pragmatic. Note the low sound levels for those sytrofoam balls, and consider the mass diff between the balls and the limestone blocks. The sound levels necessary would have to be huge.I don't think there's any correlation between sound frequencies and your suppositions about a "polarized inertia damper".
"It's easy to imagine that each ball is a small MEGADrive..."Imagination of this sort stands in defiance of the laws of physics.Where's Jim when you need him?
You stimulate a thought: you don't need a propellantless thruster if you can persuade the vacuum to spit out propellant.Can that be better than a photon rocket, I wonder....