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You can't vary the voltage that way; this isn't a capacitor. Individual voltaic cells have a characteristic potential that depends only on their chemistry (and a bit on the state of charge, especially near empty). Given the fairly wide range of energy densities (and variation in characteristic poten...

It's the freaking Skunk Works. You were expecting regular updates?

The weird part is that they said anything at all.

Sorry; delete/repost with edits... You have read some of what I've posted, yes. But you haven't understood it. This becomes painfully clear when you start talking about Lorentz transforms instead of acknowledging the simple and obvious reality that getting energy conservation in an analysis of a thr...

You really need to seriously consider the possibility that you're wrong, that you've been wrong for years, and that you are only making yourself look bad by continuing to insist otherwise without even listening to anyone who disagrees with you. The weird thing is, I can't even do a worked problem to...

This is surreal. GIThruster, you're abusing people for not knowing physics, when not only do you not know the relevant physics yourself, but you haven't even understood what we're arguing about. I'm not sure how much more time I should spend on this. I can explain, but only if you're willing to list...

I'm a mechanical engineer. You don't think non-inertial coordinate systems were part of my training? I know how to handle them and what to watch for. I know what changes, and what doesn't. (Also, I will remind you that an accelerating object does not necessarily imply an accelerating reference frame...

Nobody cares about the acceleration. You can attach the M-E thrusters to two different planets if you want, so the thrust is substantial but the acceleration is negligible - you still get the exact same issue with relative VELOCITY. You're not addressing the correct issue here; you're just handwavin...

It doesn't suggest anything like a preferred frame. Actually, it does suggest a preferred frame, which is why I suggested that some obscure GR weirdness (or a basic principle of Galilean physics that I'm stupidly missing, or something in between) might be automatically matching the effective mean v...

I don't think that last part is right. Forces don't transform; they're absolute.

This is the core of Woodward's argument against the Oak Ridge fallacy, wherein the v*dm/dt term is alleged to cancel out the Mach effect.

But that's not why, as I've explained before. The math works fine when you account for the energy of the propellant. This is because the kinetic energy of a single mass is not a true energy, as can be seen from the fact that it is not frame-independent. Kinetic energy accounting can only be done in ...

The other is to explain why that point is stupid. He did that. You just didn't understand him. Basically, the idea is this: You don't have to measure a push on the rest of the universe to validate M-E theory. All you have to do is calculate what the theory predicts, and show lab results that are bo...

Have the experimental results testing Bussard's model been published in peer-reviewed journals that appear in science citation index? If so, did those experimental results match the predictions of Bussard's model within error tolerances that aren't so wide as to render the results virtually worthle...

The electrons are fast where the ions are slow, and vice versa, which is one reason why the plasma doesn't neutralize. Dubious too. I'm not explaining how it works. I don't know how it works, or if it works. I'm explaining how it's supposed to work. (Okay, it's not much of an explanation, but I don...

The Brillouin limit doesn't apply to the total electron density; only to the net electron density ( and even that's dubious ). Ion and electron counts in a fully-formed wiffleball are supposed to be roughly equal; the potential well is created by a slight excess of electrons. The electrons are fast ...

Well, somehow I doubt the 1964 data for a Government-Mil project is still valid in 2013 for a commercial company employing an IT-like standards in management, development and testing, led mostly by a single person's will, which person is not much less than an Engineering/Management prodigy with a p...