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That's nothing. Burkhard Heim managed to get his hyperdrive ideas published by the AIAA, very prestigious. Unfortunately, I am still waiting for my back-ordered starship to get delivered.
AIAA JPP is an engineering journal, not the place I would expect groundbreaking physics to be published.
What's interesting, though: they talk about optimization without having an idea how it actually works.
You can tweak design parameters to get a better result (assuming it actually does work; I'm not 100% convinced yet) without knowing anything about the underlying theory. For centuries ship builders built new ship designs by tweaking existing designs based on empirical knowledge.
With EmDrive you could change things like the shape of the chamber, etc., to see what gives the best result.
In fact, that may be one way to narrow down what makes it work and give the scientists someplace to start looking.
NASA just published its peer-reviewed paper claiming the EM Drive does actually work. According to the paper, two levels of magnitude better than a solar sail, but a magnitude level less than the Hall Thruster plasma engine. (But that engine requires fuel.)
The folks living in the 8th dimension must hate it when their lights dim when we turn the EM drive on and off.
Ignorant question: Can it be something like "directional Cassimir effect"??
Well, its pretty much a different phenomena there, attracting or repulsing objects that are VERY close (10 nm is a typical distance for reaching surface pressure).
I don't think this has any relation to Casismir effect and I'm still not convinced that there's actual thrust produced. Remember FTL neutrinos?
Yes, but different people doing a different measurement error for similar results is unlikely.
I can imagine many more factors to produce forces in a chamber flooded with high energy EM waves. The issue is just: What? I need to prove it positive or I am just a bloody arm chair scientist. And then falsify it to prove that it is really based on the hypothesis I claim and not result of Peters Principle.
If this ends up being true, it'll be a big upset in the Physics community. You'll need more than what's out there now. You want to convince me, you'll have to send it to space where it's self powered and under no external influences.
And I'm not saying you as in you personally, but anyone.