A trip to the moon could take just four hours using EmDrive technology
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- 15 May 2020
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A trip to the moon could take just four hours if a controversial system developed by a British scientist proves to be successful.
EmDrive will get astronauts to space in super quick time by transforming electrical power into thrust, without having to eject a repellent.
Nasa has already tested it out and were unable to disprove it, although the space agency was quick to say it wasn’t testing warp drive technology (sorry Star Trek fans).
Roger Shawyer, creator of the EmDrive, said that the technology used quantum mechanics, but it wasn’t a warp drive that would get you there in a second.
But not everyone is convinced, with critics arguing the system is impossible as it doesn’t follow Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion: ‘For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.’
This rule does not apply to EmDrive as it converts electric energy instead of burning fuel behind it in order to propel a rocket forward.
