{"id":143403,"date":"2022-08-02T02:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/nasa-engineer-says-physics-defying-engine-could-go-99-the-speed-of-light"},"modified":"2022-08-02T02:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T07:24:07","slug":"nasa-engineer-says-physics-defying-engine-could-go-99-the-speed-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/nasa-engineer-says-physics-defying-engine-could-go-99-the-speed-of-light","title":{"rendered":"NASA Engineer Says Physics-defying Engine Could Go 99% the Speed of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-engineer-says-physics-defying-engine-could-go-99-the-speed-of-light3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though the EmDrive might be impossible, engineers are still working on it as the payoff would be enormous if it did work.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Imagine an engine that needs no propellant. It sounds impossible, and it most likely is.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not stopping one NASA engineer from testing theories around the EmDrive \u2014 a conceptual \u201chelical\u201d engine that could defy the laws of physics and create forward thrust without fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the EmDrive might be impossible, engineers are still working on it as the payoff would be enormous if it did work. Imagine an engine that needs no propellant. It sounds impossible, and it most likely is. That\u2019s not stopping one NASA engineer from testing theories around the EmDrive \u2014 a conceptual \u201chelical\u201d engine that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143403","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\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}