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Yes, the"impossible" engine failed critical thrust tests. But that was always going to happen, this scientist claims.

The idea was always far out, but that’s part of how science moves forward. EmDrive works (or not) by pumping microwaves into an asymmetrical closed chamber. In major international tests, the physics-defying EmDrive has failed to produce the amount of thrust proponents were expecting. In fact, in one test at Germany’s Dresden University, it didn’t produce any thrust at all. Is this the end of the line for EmDrive? ➡ The EmDrive, copyrighted by its parent company SPR Ltd, theoretically works by trapping microwaves in a shaped chamber where their bouncing produces thrust. The chamber is...

Mysterious News Briefly — March 2, 2021 Physicists have decided that swirling schools of fish, swarms of bugs and flocks of birds are actually a new state of active matter they’ve named the ‘swirlicon’ state which, at the subatomic level, violates Newton’s Second Law because pressure applied to ‘swirlons’ does not cause them to accelerate. Wonder if the same thing would happen to masses of people dressed as Swirlons at a Swirli Con. At a Tesco car park in Hertfordshire, about 100 people reported being locked out of their cars because their key fobs no longer worked – a phenome...

Valentine: And everything is mixing the same way, all the time, irreversibly . . . Septimus: Oh, we have time, I think. Valentine: . . . till there’s no time left. That’s what time means. * Begun in 1991, worked on through 1992 and staged in 1993, Arcadia is a mid-life play. It is written at a time of looking back and looking forward, just as the play looks back and forward. The parallel lines spoken by Septimus and Valentine in the last act hold in one mental space the moment in which we still have time to act, and the prospect that time will in the end run out, for us individually as w...

© Photo: REUTERS/POOL New Trapped in the empty luxury of Versailles, the French ruling class could only see their illusions of power reflected in mirrors. The Legendary Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles was built to display the wealth, power and glory of France’s most proud and spectacular monarch, Louis Quatorze (XIV) the Sun King. But a century later it became the opposite: making a mockery of his arrogance and pride when the thousand-year-old monarchy, the grandest in the history of Europe, was toppled in the French Revolution of 1789-93 and the king’s descendant, well-meani...