If a large group of scientists are measuring thrust from this thing, I think it is worthwhile to figure out why. Even if it is "nonsense", it may lead people to come up with a new/different space drive that is more efficient than what we have today. For instance, it may, in some novel way, just be pushing against Earth's magnetic field in a way that wasn't considered before. Or perhaps when it is tested dynamically instead of statically, the thrust falls off because the enclosure moved. It may lead us to consider certain laws of physics more from an engineering perspective than a pure physics one.

And you actually don't know what you are talking about. The Alpha's memory management is pretty similar to the x86 memory management. Yes, the x86 will not let you access memory that isn't allocated, and sometimes the OS handles this by BSOD, and in rare cases it *might* be able to recover. This would happen if that OS was running on x86, Alpha or PowerPC.

(Ironic quote you have there).

Come'on - who is the editor here?