/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11799880
Mike McCullough's Quantized Inertia model is interesting. If true, then Woodward Effect reactionless drives are possible by manipulating current through certain conductive objects. The NasaSpaceFlight forum guys hate it, but Mike and a few people on Twitter are actually putting together models and testing them. One guy is working on stacking tapered magnetic coils to produce a larger thrust - an almost perfect realization of Star Trek warp nacelles and warp coils if it works.

The basic idea behind QI is that dark matter/energy doesn't exist and inertia propagates at lightspeed rather than instantaneously. At the quantum level it's what would be called a pilot wave model.

>>11799904
>How would it react with the crazy magnetic/radiation environment around Jupiter, I wonder.
If you stop rotating the coils it breaks the electric-motor connection to the solar wind plasma so you can use magnetospheres and atmospheres to brake. I don't know if that's enough for full planetary capture or if you'd still need a particle beam brake.