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I think you are missing my point again. You say science disproves alternatives. Alternative, what? Theories? What does a theory do, exactly. Well, a theory predicts correlations. We take measurements of the things that the theory says are correlated. If they are not correlated, the theory is thrown ...

The claim that this thing is pushing on the rest of the universe is different than the claim of thrust being generated. The only thing that proves is that thrust is generated under a set of conditions. You claim that the set of conditions needed for thrust are predicted by this theory. A completely ...

That is a decent summary of the differences from polywell. The beta is actually pretty high here. But yes, non-neutral and non-thermal plasmas are out (except in the plug itself). The self plugging (wiffleball) is out too. But I think even without those things there is still a fusion reactor in ther...

I have made a little Google site and put a couple documents on there for anyone that cares to read them. I don't claim to be doing too much new. I don't mind admitting that a lot of my thinking originated from thinking about polywell, and how it might or might not work. However, this is not about po...

The point is that the claim that conservation of momentum is violated is indistinguishable from the claim that momentum is conserved by pushing on the entire universe. Science tends to like falsifiable claims.

So, if you say the answer is 5, and you show the answer is not 4, then you must be right.

Can you explain how "pushing on the rest of the universe" is a testable claim, even in principle. I think I explained this problem before. If that is what something does, then there is not really any way to know that is what it is doing because the observer is a part of the universe too. It would si...

Why do people just assume the government has good intentions? And why do people just assume that good intentions are good enough?

You hate job-hoppers? Or the other way around?

Somebody better reel this guy in. He's way off reservation letting all the cows loose.

Do all FTL trajectories create a time-like loop?

You might try not integrating to infinity, but only up to the Debye length. That is sufficiently messy looking that I would do it numerically. But I'm pretty lazy when it comes to integrating. lol. [edit 1] I just noticed the angular dependence. What is the angle wrt? For that matter, is R a distanc...

Yes, it truly does bring to mind "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_equation

It's the general equation for the particle distributions. This is in the classical mechanics realm.

The ion distribution is solving the boltzmann equation. So, you'd have to show that you're getting a solution to that, instead of the schrodinger equation.