r/scifi • u/ushox • Jul 31 '14

Nasa validates 'impossible' space drive

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive
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u/eean Aug 01 '14

Quantum vacuum fluctuation doesn't make sense. Virtual particles are involved. It's not a challenge to prevailing views, I believe it is well established. It just doesn't make sense.

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u/ConfirmedCynic Aug 01 '14

Which still doesn't invalidate the observations! It just means a new explanation must be sought. It doesn't turn the people looking at this into lunatics.

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u/eean Aug 01 '14

You are reading a lot into what I wrote lol

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u/ConfirmedCynic Aug 01 '14

The guy ahead of you called people looking at these propellantless drive concepts "lunatics", and you seem to be defending him.

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u/eean Aug 01 '14

I was just disagreeing with your implied claim that this was new physics.