NASA Lab to Publish Paper on Warp Drive: "Speeds" that Could Take Humans to Mars in 10 Weeks (+Video)

Is the mystery of the ‘impossible’ fuel free EmDrive thruster about to be solved? Claims secretive Nasa lab to publish paper on ‘warp drive’ that could take humans to Mars in 10 weeks.

It has been dubbed the  ’impossible engine’, that could take humans to Mars in just 10 weeks – but nobody knows how. 

The so-called EmDrive creates thrust by bouncing microwaves around in an enclosed chamber, and uses only solar power.

Many argue the concept is simply hype, suggesting the design goes against the laws of physics , and now a Nasa lab that has been studying the concept is set to publish its findings for the first time it has been claimed.

The idea for an EmDrive was proposed in 2000 by a researcher named Roger Shawyer. 

Since then four independent labs, including one at Nasa, have recreated the drive.

But the mysterious engine had baffled scientists because it appeared to violate the law of conservation of momentum, which states for every action there has to be an equal and opposite reaction.

This means the rocket can only accelerate forward if a force of equal magnitude is sent in the other direction – the rocket’s exhaust.

Nasa’s Eagleworks team is now ready to reveal its findings, it has been claimed – sending the physic world into a tizzy.

‘It is my understanding that Eaglework’s new paper has been today accepted for publication in a peer-review journal, where it will be published,’ claims one user on the Nasa Spaceflight forum. 

Earlier this year, an employee confirmed the team was working on the paper.

‘EmDrive works just like any other engine,’ Dr Arto Annila, physics professor at the University of Helsinki and lead author of the paper, told MailOnline.

‘Its fuel is the input photons at microwave lengths.’

The researchers suggest the photons coming out of the machine interfere with each other, so that the overall effect seems as if nothing is there. 

‘In the cavity the input photons will bounce back and forth, and invariably some of them will interfere completely destructively.’

MailOnline /  Nature World News / International Business Times
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