{"id":26933,"date":"2016-06-16T00:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T07:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/new-paper-claims-that-the-em-drive-doesnt-defy-newtons-3rd-law-after-all"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:01","slug":"new-paper-claims-that-the-em-drive-doesnt-defy-newtons-3rd-law-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/new-paper-claims-that-the-em-drive-doesnt-defy-newtons-3rd-law-after-all","title":{"rendered":"New paper claims that the EM Drive doesn\u2019t defy Newton\u2019s 3rd law after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-paper-claims-that-the-em-drive-doesnt-defy-newtons-3rd-law-after-all.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have just published new calculations that suggest the controversial EM drive \u2014 or electromagnetic drive \u2014 could actually work, and doesn\u2019t defy Newton\u2019s third law after all.<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019ve missed the hype, here\u2019s a quick catch-up: a lot of space lovers are freaking out about the EM drive because of claims it could get humans to Mars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-has-trialled-an-engine-that-would-take-us-to-Mars-in-10-weeks\">in just 10 weeks<\/a>, but just as many are sick of hearing about it, because, on paper at least, it doesn\u2019t work within the laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that not-insignificant setback, the EM drive shows no signs of quitting, and test after test \u2014 including trials by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-em-drive-still-producing-mysterious-thrust-after-another-round-of-nasa-tests\">NASA scientists at the Eagleworks lab<\/a>, and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/independent-scientists-confirm-that-the-impossible-em-drive-produces-thrust\">independent researcher in Germany<\/a> \u2014 has conceded that the propulsion system, somehow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-em-drive-still-producing-mysterious-thrust-after-another-round-of-nasa-tests\">does produce thrust.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-paper-claims-that-the-em-drive-doesn-t-defy-newton-s-3rd-law-after-all\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-paper-claims-that-the-em-dri...-after-all<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have just published new calculations that suggest the controversial EM drive \u2014 or electromagnetic drive \u2014 could actually work, and doesn\u2019t defy Newton\u2019s third law after all. In case you\u2019ve missed the hype, here\u2019s a quick catch-up: a lot of space lovers are freaking out about the EM drive because of claims it could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67189,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions\/67189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}