Comment Re:This again? (Score 1) 480
In Dr. White’s model, the propellant ions of the MagnetoHydroDynamics drive are replaced as the fuel source by the virtual particles of the Quantum Vacuum, eliminating the need to carry propellant.
Let's see: we can violate conservation of momentum by invoking some sort of vaguely defined quantum woo. Riiiight. Where do I send my check?
Although I haven't seen the math or read the articles yet, the above sentence makes sense to me. Instead of inputing energy to fuel and kicking out the back, they input the energy to the virtual pairs that are in all space. That gives the drive it's thrust as they are pushing against the virtual pairs which then recombine and cease to exist. However, when they cease to exist, they should still have a higher net energy over free space which would result in EM radiation being released when the virtual particles cease to exist. They might not cease to exist and thus the new particles never recombine and become actual particles, but the energies of the two particles (minus what was inputted into them) would be opposite of each other.