{"id":112451,"date":"2020-09-03T16:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T23:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/nasa-funded-scientist-claims-new-thruster-could-approach-light-speed"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T23:25:27","slug":"nasa-funded-scientist-claims-new-thruster-could-approach-light-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/nasa-funded-scientist-claims-new-thruster-could-approach-light-speed","title":{"rendered":"NASA-Funded Scientist Claims New Thruster Could Approach Light Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-funded-scientist-claims-new-thruster-could-approach-light-speed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked at the huge increase in measured force,\u201d Hal Fearn, close collaborator and physicist at California State University, Fullerton, told <em>Wired<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet other researchers are still skeptical of the novel device.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say there\u2019s between a 1-in-10 and 1-in-10,000,000 chance that it\u2019s real, and probably toward the higher end of that spectrum,\u201d Mike McDonald, an aerospace engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Maryland, told the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI was shocked at the huge increase in measured force,\u201d Hal Fearn, close collaborator and physicist at California State University, Fullerton, told Wired. Yet other researchers are still skeptical of the novel device. \u201cI\u2019d say there\u2019s between a 1-in-10 and 1-in-10,000,000 chance that it\u2019s real, and probably toward the higher end of that spectrum,\u201d Mike [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}