1999-02-01 09:00:00+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Accaording to this web article (and, not to be a pessimist or anything, but we all know to take the web with a healthy shovel full of skepticism, right?) the theory behind a massless drive has been demonstrated in the laboratory. See also Foundations of Physics Letters, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1996 paper, p. 247 - 293. Summary:
The beauty of his experiment was the following insight -- if you vibrate these capacitors up and down using a piezoelectric crystal, at just the right frequency so that they are going up when their mass is the least and going down when their mass is the most, then a small, constant, mass change is possible. The largest mass change he measured was 4.4 milligrams.