Fly to the moon in 4 hours: British scientist who says he's found secret of Star Trek's 'warp speed'

The London Daily Mail ^ | May 14, 2015 | Tom Leonard in New York

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“‘Ye cannae alter the laws of physics,’ wailed Scotty...

Mr Shawyer says: ‘There’s no magic in it. It fully complies with the laws of Newton, Einstein and [Scottish physicist James] Maxwell.

But that force tends to be tiny, unless you can amplify it. Mr Shawyer says he did just that.

His crucial discovery was that if you make one end of the (Magnetron) tube wider, they exert more pressure on the other end, thereby pushing the whole thing forward.

He also explains that the EmDrive accelerates gradually but continuously as long as you keep powering it with electricity (via solar or nuclear power).

Its inventor calculates that an interstellar probe would take ten years to reach two-thirds the speed of light, which he sees as pretty much the limit of how fast we could practically travel.

(The effects of such speeds on the body aren’t clear, but this steady increase in pace should avoid subjecting astronauts to dangerously rapid forces of acceleration.)

Still, that’s an astonishing 450 million miles an hour.