icekatze wrote:Judging from the article, they ran some tests and didn't find any evidence one way or another.
And this, ladies and gentleman, is how we know it was an EM-Drive test! Seriously, every actual EM-Drive test ever.
icekatze wrote:Although, a likely culprit emerges, in the form of an electromagnetic field from the microwave's power source.
If that's the actual source it'll be a bit disappointing, though not
too surprising: the idea of getting
usable mass dilation from just charging some ordinary capacitors was always a little odd, so any vaguely related experiments seemed questionable too. At any rate, the big ruccus in the scientific community wasn't
quite that it might have worked, but instead that they thought the thrust was
too high for the energy input: it had higher thrust than the equivalent photonic drive, which is assumed to require "hidden energy", e.g. via propellant.
Though someone did supposedly come up with a theory that accurately describes the thrust, so maybe that'll go somewhere.