{"id":12494,"date":"2014-10-25T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12494"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:46","slug":"nasa-approves-impossible-space-engine-design-that-apparently-violates-the-laws-of-physics-and-could-revolutionise-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/nasa-approves-impossible-space-engine-design-that-apparently-violates-the-laws-of-physics-and-could-revolutionise-space-travel","title":{"rendered":"Nasa approves \u2018impossible\u2019 space engine design that apparently violates the laws of physics and could revolutionise space travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/biography\/james-vincent\"><span class=\"authorName\">James Vincent<\/span><\/a> \u2014 The Independent<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 21px;\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"storyTop \">In a quiet announcement that has sent shockwaves through the scientific world, Nasa has cautiously given its seal of approval to a new type of \u201cimpossible\u201d engine that could revolutionize space travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20140006052\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> published by the agency\u2019s experimental Eagleworks Laboratories, Nasa engineers confirmed that they had produced tiny amounts of thrust from an engine without propellant \u2013 an apparent violation of the conservation of momentum; the law of physics that states that every action must have an equal and opposite reaction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/nasa-approves-impossible-space-engine-design-that-apparently-violates-the-laws-of-physics-and-could-revolutionise-space-travel-9646865.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Vincent \u2014 The Independent In a quiet announcement that has sent shockwaves through the scientific world, Nasa has cautiously given its seal of approval to a new type of \u201cimpossible\u201d engine that could revolutionize space travel. In a paper published by the agency\u2019s experimental Eagleworks Laboratories, Nasa engineers confirmed that they had produced tiny [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46807,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494\/revisions\/46807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}