DeltaV wrote:Interesting, but no mention of Woodward/MLTs in the index. The military has done a good job of supressing enthusiasm for nontraditional propulsion since that big, standing-room-only antigravity conference in the mid-1950s drew too much attention.
Woodward has made almost no effort to promote his ideas. I say "almost" because he does publish every year. This year, he'll be publishing and presenting 2 works at SPESIF, and one of them, the one explaining how to build traversable wormholes; he's getting a double session for presentation of his over-length, 26 page paper.
The best way to understand why it is Woodward does not promote himself is that he's an older guy, with a couple kinds of terminal cancer, who's financial needs are all cared for. If/when his work becomes an astonishing success, this will be primarily a lot of fuss and distraction for him, people pushing, worrying about IP and money, etc. Though he works hard at what he does, I think he knows the best times will end when he succeeds at what he does, and this likewise affects the fact he is not a self-promoting person.
As far as Czysz and Bruno, it's all traditional aerospace. All the challenges in it are in engineering. There is nothing I can think of that is held out as a possible option based upon unresolved physics.
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