{"id":97399,"date":"2019-10-13T20:03:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T03:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/nasa-engineer-invents-physics-breaking-new-space-engine"},"modified":"2019-10-13T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T03:03:29","slug":"nasa-engineer-invents-physics-breaking-new-space-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/nasa-engineer-invents-physics-breaking-new-space-engine","title":{"rendered":"NASA engineer invents physics-breaking new space engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Star Trek<\/i>\u2019s Montgomery Scott famously said \u201cye cannot change the laws of physics\u201d, but a real-life space engineer says he might have just done that.<\/p>\n<p>David Burns of NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama has unveiled what he\u2019s calling the \u2018helical engine\u2019, which could potentially power flights across space without using any fuel at all.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one small problem \u2014 it breaks the laws of physics as we know them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek\u2019s Montgomery Scott famously said \u201cye cannot change the laws of physics\u201d, but a real-life space engineer says he might have just done that. David Burns of NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama has unveiled what he\u2019s calling the \u2018helical engine\u2019, which could potentially power flights across space without using any fuel at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97399","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=97399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}