The idea that it's leaking fits well with the observation that the
thrust involved is "incredibly small".
When you're chasing effects at the margin of what you can detect,
totally marginal errors can totally mess up the results.
On 06/16/2016 01:36 PM, Bob Higgins wrote:
I don't quite understand why people think photons don't leak out of
the Shawyer apparatus. If you look at a Fabry-Perot resonator - two
parallel mirrors (an etalon). The reflectivity for each of the
mirrors can be 99.999%, and the etalon Q will be quite high, but at
the resonance, light will pass through the etalon with relatively
little attenuation. This is because the energy inside the resonance is
related to Q which is related to reflectivity. When the reflectivity
is high, the Q is high, so the field intensity inside the etalon is
very high (multiplied by Q). Then when you take that internal field
intensity and multiply it by the reflectivity, most of the input comes
out (at resonance).
Bob
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Russ George <russ.geo...@gmail.com
<mailto:russ.geo...@gmail.com>> 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
