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Could the Impossible EM Drive Be Possible in TGD Universe?

Matti Pitkänen

Abstract


According to Wikipedia article, Roger Shawyer, who is behind the concept of EM drive, has claimed that the prototype produces a total thrust about .02 Newtons using the power by 850 W magnetron. The device could operate only few dozen seconds after the magnetron failed due to overheating. There would be no fuel in the conventional sense of the word.  Basic conservation laws of momentum and energy however require that if system gains momentum there must be another system gaining opposite momentum. For ordinary rocket this would be exhaust fuel. No exhaust has been observed and this is thought to make the drive "impossible".  Also energy is needed. The magnetron would provide this energy. The working principle of EM drive is abstraction of ordinary rocket principle. Fuel is replaced by microwave energy leaking out from  the system in non-symmetric manner so that momentum leakage takes place and gives rise to a recoil forcing the rocket to move. As such it is not anything impossible. The question is whether the energy and momentum really leave the system. The failure of magnetron suggests that at least some fraction returns to magnetron somehow and heats it. Magnetron is a school example of a critical system and in TGD framework this would suggest phase transition producing dark photons with heff = n x h at the flux tubes of its magnetic body (MB) with much higher energies than ordinary microwave photons. If the dark microwave photons leaving microwave cavity go to the magnetic flux tubes they could return back to magnetron and transform to ordinary high energy photons and heat the magnetron and also bring the momentum back to the system. This might mean severe problems.

 


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