Abstracto

Propellant-less Propulsion from Quantized Inertia

ME McCulloch

A new model for inertial mass, quantized inertia, that predicts galaxy rotation without dark matter, also predicts that a highlyaccelerated system surrounded by an asymmetric conductor will feel thrust in a new way, without having to store and expel propellant. This may already have been seen in the emdrive, which quantized inertia predicts quite well. Here it is shown that thrust effects from asymmetric capacitors (including the Woodward effect) can also be predicted to the right order of magnitude. The lack of a need to store heavy propellant implies much lighter launch systems and the possibility of interstellar travel.