Any time I hear claims that involve hitherto unknown laws of Physics I’m 99.99% sure I’m dealing with BS - but then again, some day someone will probably genuinely pull off such a discovery.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that NASA has physicists that understand how and why this thing works, and the article title is just bullshit.
It’s very likely, but it’s almost certainly going to involve an extreme thing we can barely measure. The whole reason physics is stuck where it is is that all the things we have access to are described perfectly by the system we have, even if it’s not fully self-consistent.
Any time I hear claims that involve hitherto unknown laws of Physics I’m 99.99% sure I’m dealing with BS - but then again, some day someone will probably genuinely pull off such a discovery.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that NASA has physicists that understand how and why this thing works, and the article title is just bullshit.
Ion propulsion.
This can’t be ion propulsion because ion propulsion involves a propellant – the ions.
It’s very likely, but it’s almost certainly going to involve an extreme thing we can barely measure. The whole reason physics is stuck where it is is that all the things we have access to are described perfectly by the system we have, even if it’s not fully self-consistent.
I mean, if there was any I would trust on physics NASA is pretty high up there
This wasn’t NASA, though. This was a sci-fi writer, writing about a putative claim by someone who got paid by NASA at some point in the past.
Ditto for the couple ex-CIA guys that claim there’s alien dissections or whatever. Big organizations inevitably employ all sorts.