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Podcast: Serious Inquiries Only
Episode: SIO431: The Em Drive Is Supposed To Be Impossible. So Why Did Experiments Say It Worked?
Description: Dr. Bryan Gillis is back to walk us through a space travel concept that would have upended Physics as we know it if it had worked. But, wait a second - turns out there were quite a number of studies that actually successfully demonstrated its effect so why aren't we using it to zip through the universe these days? We also learn a bit of statistics in this discussion to help us uncover what happened here and what this means for the broader understanding of statistical significance when evaluating scientific findings. Â Bryan's Notes Check out Up and Atom on Y...