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== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
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In addition to the NSF threads, these sites provide additional information:
  
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive Wikipedia] has a lot of technical background.
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* [http://emdrive.com/faq.html EMDrive/SPR web site FAQ]
* On Reddit, [http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/34cq1b/the_facts_as_we_currently_know_them_about_the/ this page] has a summary.
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive Wikipedia] has some technical background, but has infrequent updates (few per month) and is marked as having "disputed neutrality".
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* On Reddit, the [http://www.reddit.com/r/EMDrive EM Drive subreddit] has active discussions.

Revision as of 10:03, 3 July 2015

What are the experimental results regarding the EM Drives?
See Experimental Results.
Does the EM Drive violate momentum- or energy-conservation?
See Energy Conservation and Momentum Conservation.
How does an EM Drive work?
This a graph showing how R. Shawyer describes the operation of the EM Drive. The EM Drive researchers at NASA Eagleworks and Prof. Yang's team at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) in Xi'anin, China, have different theories of its operation:

Image of EmDrive thrust direction in posts attachment.

See the Theory page for a list of additional theories purporting to explain how the EmDrive works.

External Links

In addition to the NSF threads, these sites provide additional information: