As I mentioned in my previous post, if you want to see how the photons can leak out, just have a look at the Fabry-Perot etalon. At resonance it is a high Q filter, even though the boundaries are highly reflecting.
But, photonic leakage still doesn't explain the measured Shawyer EM drive thrust. The Shawyer tests are showing 0.3-0.9 mN/W of thrust, but photonic thrust is only 3E-6 mN/W, a ratio of >100,000! Interestingly, Shawyer is also quoting present device Q's of about 50,000 which makes his thrust on the same order as Q x photonic thrust. On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 8:12 AM, John Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, particles (electrons, protons, atoms, bucky balls, ignored cats) > fired at a screen still produce an interference... > > So maybe protons could tunnel through a barrier if there is a wave from > another proton that interferes? > > Could this be how tunneling works? > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oops… obviously, that should read “photon” instead of “proton”: >> >> If photons [not protons] can become paired and out-of-phase due to some >> kind of cavity resonance effect, such that one result of the pairing is >> that they can escape metal confinement, then almost every citizen is at >> risk from microwave ovens. >> >> If you are old enough to remember Ralph Nader and the Corvair, another >> low point from that era was the microwave oven scare. Supposedly, this >> was debunked, but now … who knows. There certainly could be oven >> configurations which unknowingly promote photon-pairing more than >> others. Recently, there are reports of ovens with plastic windows, instead >> of glass windows, melting. This could be due to the spacing in the see-thru >> metal grids… who knows? >> > >
