----- Original Message ----
> From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 8:28:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:"Reactionless" propulsion
>
> At 07:14 AM 11/8/2009, Michel Jullian wrote:
>
> > The group velocity of the electromagnetic
> > wave at the end plate of the larger section is
> > higher than the group velocity at the end plate
> > of the smaller section.
>
> "Group velocity." What group velocity? Group velocity refers to the apparent
> velocity of an interference pattern, or modulation. That pattern can "move"
> at
> any speed, including faster than light. It isn't anything but a pattern. It
> does
> not carry energy, as such, so it will not exert a pressure.
Wheteher or not his theory is coherent and consistent, maybe what he discovered
is that the pattern doesn't have to exert a pressure to cause an acceleration.
That would make it a truly reactionless drive.
Harry
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