Quote from: rfmwguy on 10/04/2015 04:10 pmDisappointed to notice wallofwolfstreet has left the building here and on reddit apparently. Anyone have the details on this? I enjoyed his posts, even tho he was not a firm believer...I appreciate that you feel my posts have been constructive.I haven't left actually, just have some other things taking up more time. I deleted my reddit account because whenever I commented on /r/emdrive, I found myself wasting time just looking through random posts on /r/all. Someone with better impulse control could have saved the account and just posted less, but I went for the burnt bridge option.
Disappointed to notice wallofwolfstreet has left the building here and on reddit apparently. Anyone have the details on this? I enjoyed his posts, even tho he was not a firm believer...
Curious?While I do understand and respect that with the limited and different results produced and published by several tests so far. That nothing really can be concluded at the moment. As the cause of any positive results achieved. I still have one question:At this point. Does anyone feel that somehow someway that at least some energy is being converted to mass or does everyone feel that energy itself remains entirely energy with no portion being converted to mass and energy alone, is the sole cause of the forces being seen in some results?Better references to what I am getting at:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalencehttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_16-5-2014-15-32-44Don
Quote from: TheUberOverLord on 10/04/2015 08:57 pmCurious?While I do understand and respect that with the limited and different results produced and published by several tests so far. That nothing really can be concluded at the moment. As the cause of any positive results achieved. I still have one question:At this point. Does anyone feel that somehow someway that at least some energy is being converted to mass or does everyone feel that energy itself remains entirely energy with no portion being converted to mass and energy alone, is the sole cause of the forces being seen in some results?Better references to what I am getting at:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalencehttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_16-5-2014-15-32-44DonWish I knew the answer to that. On reddit, someone made a comparison to the big bang...matter from nothing. I remain on the fence. I feel there is an emdrive effect, but it very well might be a repulsive or attractive force at the quantum particle or wave level. I think we'll soon have the answer late this year or next.
NSF-1701 Paper Update. With thanks to many, I am releasing my paper a day early. I look forward to your commentary.All the best,Dave
Quote from: rfmwguy on 10/04/2015 08:26 pmNSF-1701 Paper Update. With thanks to many, I am releasing my paper a day early. I look forward to your commentary.All the best,DaveDave, I really like your report - I think this sort of formal documentation is critical to making people fully aware of DIY builders and their contributions to this original research. I particularly like your contribution to the discussion of Q and the introduction of the QR concept. I am still going over the implications of the math - I had missed that Yang and NASA had such wildly different methodologies - I had been focusing too much on the 1-port vs 2-port debate. However, I will be including a QR calculation in any results I obtain. I'm going to look at it a little more tonight but I think this approach will be very significant with wideband RF sources like maggies. Shell - how are you approaching the "Q conundrum"? Herm
This topic seems to be on one of its periodic slow periods. I suppose there is quite a bit of waiting around for various results from the professional groups as well as more home experimenters to get things fired up.
Quote from: TheUberOverLord on 10/04/2015 08:57 pmCurious?While I do understand and respect that with the limited and different results produced and published by several tests so far. That nothing really can be concluded at the moment. As the cause of any positive results achieved. I still have one question:At this point. Does anyone feel that somehow someway that at least some energy is being converted to mass or does everyone feel that energy itself remains entirely energy with no portion being converted to mass and energy alone, is the sole cause of the forces being seen in some results?Better references to what I am getting at:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalencehttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_16-5-2014-15-32-44DonWhile the effect may prove out to be real. Like many things that have been discovered in the past with no clear theories to lead the building it will remain in dispute for some time. Even though flight has been around for over a hundred years there has been dispute.https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/lift1.htmlSo that leaves it to the builders of the Drive to build and evaluate almost by trial and error as to what works and what doesn't. Build by build, data bit by data bit (No Bad Data). I know it's a slap in the face to the many theorists who are trying so hard to come up with answers, but I believe the theories will abound for a long time.I have given thoughts as to what is causing this thrust, I have my pet ones and even one that some say can't work, but I firmly believe you need to take into consideration CoM and CoE and there must be a "hole" of some force made by the Drive interacting with the outside frame reference to produce thrust. Over the months of my build (I even started in that direction with my octagonal walled drive) it became clear that's it's not enough for me to get some tiny thrust or even to be first, but the real work and real need became to be able to test out the different theories to provide clear and concise data. Maybe I'll get lucky and hit a home run with one of the designs backing a theory. That's when the real fun will begin.But this weekend I've taken off to split wood and get ready for the winter that is coming and the old bones are screaming "I hate you" ShellPS: I also want to say this group is some of the finest people I've ever had the joy of working with, my deepest respect goes to you all.
While Doc's been busy, it is my privilege to kick off Thread 5 after this topic has had over 3 million views! Onward to 4 million...
[quote author=rfmwguy link=topic=38577.msg1432708#msg1432708 date=1443991863]While Doc's been busy, it is my privilege to kick off Thread 5 after this topic has had over 3 million views! Onward to 4 million...
RFMWGUY!I heard a rumor you beamed Dr. Rodel via EMDrive into another dimension.. another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, ...Getting scary rfmwguy...Shell
Maybe Dr. Rodal is working with Dr. White on the next version of this recent paper?http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20140013174.pdfHuman Outer Solar System Exploration via Q-ThrusterOr maybe doing work for Dr. White on the next EMDrive vac results paper?