The author says:
"photons must become paired up in order to discharge the fuel
cavity, so that the two photons in those pairs are essentially out
of phase, which means they entirely cancel each other out and have
no net electromagnetic field"
If it shoots out a pair of /out of phase/ photons whose fields "entirely
cancel", their energy cancels as well (energy density of EM radiation
goes as the field strength), as does their momentum (proportional to
energy for a photon, as I recall), and the result is nothing coming out.
Nope, nope, nope. This goes nowhere in "explaining" the drive.
And, no, you can't say "It doesn't break Newton's third law, /because/
it produces thrust". That's totally backwards reasoning.
[And no, by the way, peer review doesn't == solid. /Replication/, that's
what it takes for a result to be "solid". The peer reviewers can catch
arithmetic mistakes and totally bogus theory but they can't spot every
error in lab technique, and, of course, peer review can't generally
catch fraud.]
On 06/16/2016 01:21 PM, Russ George wrote:
OK Dr. Photon just how do we like this news on the EM Drive and the
paired out of phase photons?
http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2016/06/new-paper-claims-that-em-drive-doesnt.html#.V2LfsvkrKVM
