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Finnish Scientist Provides Another Explanation For The 'Impossible' EM Drive (examiner.com)
MarkWhittington quotes a report from Examiner: Ever since the EmDrive entered the news about a year or so ago, it has sparked considerable controversy. The device is alleged to work by using microwaves that produce, in some fashion as yet unknown to science, thrust. Many scientists suggest that the EM drive is impossible as it violates known physics. However, a number of tests conducted in Great Britain, Germany, China, and at NASA's Eagleworks at the Johnson Spaceflight Center have resulted in thrust that cannot, as yet, be explained by experimental error. The International Business Times reported that a Finnish scientist has published an article in a peer-reviewed science journal with a possible explanation as to how the drive works. International Business Times writes, "A new peer-reviewed paper on the EmDrive from Finaland states that the controversial electromagnetic space propulsion technology does work due to microwaves fed into the device converting photons that leak out of the closed cavity, producing an exhaust. The research, entitled "On the exhaust of electromagnetic drive," is published in the journal AIP Advances 6 and is the brainchild of Dr Arto Annila, a physics professor at the University of Helsinki; Dr Erkki Kolehmainen, an organic chemistry professor at the University of Jyvaskyla; and Patrick Grahn, a multiphysicist at engineering software firm Comsol."
Finns get a lot of media considering it is an icey wasteland.
An icy wasteland that gave us Linux!
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Clearly running the microwave creates a virtual quantum burrito. As long as there's a burrito in the microwave, thrust is guaranteed to be generated,shortly!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
It's very simple, AC.
You see, when you touch your little red rocket, and make the fuel spray out, it makes daddy god very angry. Especially if it gets on the floor.
When daddy god gets angry, he makes poor little jesus have to strike you blind, so you cant find it anymore.
Really, it's all in the bible, which everyone knows is the leading authority on everything. /sarcasm
He's not Swedish, just comes from a Swedish speaking family in Finland (very common).
According to your principal 50 million Americans are "actually Spanish".
They are no more Swedish than the entire population of Switzerland is German.
Come on - the Swiss are even more German than the Germans. Swiss visitors to Germany complain about the inefficiency, lawlessness and excessive frivolity.
And to them, germany is a poor country.