{"id":30004,"date":"2016-09-09T14:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/breaking-newtons-third-law-impossible-space-engine-the-emdrive-passes-peer-review"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:42:12","slug":"breaking-newtons-third-law-impossible-space-engine-the-emdrive-passes-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/breaking-newtons-third-law-impossible-space-engine-the-emdrive-passes-peer-review","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Newton\u2019s Third Law: Impossible Space Engine \u2018The EMdrive\u2019 Passes Peer Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wBtk6xWDrwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The EmDrive is a new type of rocket engine first proposed by British scientist\/electrical engineer Roger Shawyer in 1999. Unlike conventional space rocket engines, the EmDrive doesn\u2019t require any kind of propellant (also known as a reaction mass) to make propulsion possible, and hence partially disobeying Newton\u2019s Third Law: \u201cTo each action there\u2019s an equal and opposite reaction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that this seems to violate the known laws of physics, a prototype device was submitted to NASA\u2019s Eagleworks lab for testing which came back positive, reports Digital Trends.<\/p>\n<p>The paper resulting from the test, \u201cMeasurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio Frequency Cavity in Vacuum\u201d by Harold White et al., was accepted for publication in the peer reviewed Journal Of Propulsion And Power, by AIAA according to Dr. Jos\u00e9 Rodal, NASA Spaceflight forums.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/3tags.org\/article\/breaking-newtons-third-law-impossible-space-engine-the-emdrive-passes-peer-review\">http:\/\/3tags.org\/article\/breaking-newtons-third-law-impossib...eer-review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EmDrive is a new type of rocket engine first proposed by British scientist\/electrical engineer Roger Shawyer in 1999. Unlike conventional space rocket engines, the EmDrive doesn\u2019t require any kind of propellant (also known as a reaction mass) to make propulsion possible, and hence partially disobeying Newton\u2019s Third Law: \u201cTo each action there\u2019s an equal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30004","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\/30004","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39559,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30004\/revisions\/39559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}