EM space drive

Jon was asking about applications here on the ground...

Uh, gravity and friction would certainly play a role in how much stuff you could move with 2 ounces of force.

I read it all. The stuff you said after what we were talking about, i.e. "being on the ground", had nothing to do with it. Not much. I doubt you could move my dick with it Pretty much, for the one for down here on the ground... where gravity and friction would certainly play a role...That's what I meant. That's what was being talked about.

I remember hearing about that experiment in a physics class in college. That's not what is being talked about, this is:

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but I don't really understand just how much power the research in these articles is reporting.

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What's 720 mN of thrust? How about 30-50 micro-Newtons?

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Could this have applications on the ground?

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According to the one article, the 720 mnt is 72 grams of thrust.
that's a bit more than 2 oz.

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So it's enough to move 2 oz. worth of material?

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They're talking about using an EmDrive for some kind of ground vehicle, like a car or something.There's just not enough thrust there for that.

Yes, and then another member asked if it had applications on the ground.It does not, currently.

Is the question you ask just literally the words that you type, or is the question you ask the one that you mean?

Yeah, in the context of being on the ground, in some kind of vehicle or something.

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I understand the importance of getting power without having to tote around an exhaustible fuel supply, but I don't really understand just how much power the research in these articles is reporting.

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What's 720 mN of thrust? How about 30-50 micro-Newtons?

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Could this have applications on the ground?

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Can you not see that he is trying to wrap his mind around how much power this is by comparing it to the kind of ground transportation that we are all already familiar with? I already quoted the context to you. Here, let me paraphrase it:"This is cool, but I don't get how strong it is. Does it have applications on the ground?"-well, its only 2 ounces of thrust"Oh, so you can only move 2 ounces of stuff with it?"This isn't a deep interrogation of the underlying physics behind the power of thrust in a friction-less vacuum, this is a question about how much weight can be moved along the ground with the power that this new thing creates.

If someone was genuinely curious about, say, how big of a room your newly invented dim light bulb could fill with light, how could they ask the question without a guy like you seeing that as impeding the progress of the technology?