It's a slow Saturday morning, so I actually watched most of his YouTube presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjPi7uZ2OI&t=3696s I stopped at the Q&A where they started going off about UFOs...) He claims that the dU/dx in an asymmetric capacitor (a spatial gradient in internal energy) leads to a net overall force on the center of mass. If that were true in this system, then two different springs under compression would also have a net force on the center of mass. Or two adjacent, differently pressured vessels. It's just wrong. There is no net change in momentum happening in this system.
His "quantum" explanations are even worse (just some hand-wavy BS with the fine structure constant thrown in.)
I don't doubt he has managed to generate 1 g of electrostatic force on a charged object - but that force has to be reacted against something else. Otherwise Newton would be spinning at an ever-accelerating rate in his grave.
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It's a slow Saturday morning, so I actually watched most of his YouTube presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJjPi7uZ2OI&t=3696s I stopped at the Q&A where they started going off about UFOs...) He claims that the dU/dx in an asymmetric capacitor (a spatial gradient in internal energy) leads to a net overall force on the center of mass. If that were true in this system, then two different springs under compression would also have a net force on the center of mass. Or two adjacent, differently pressured vessels. It's just wrong. There is no net change in momentum happening in this system.
His "quantum" explanations are even worse (just some hand-wavy BS with the fine structure constant thrown in.)
I don't doubt he has managed to generate 1 g of electrostatic force on a charged object - but that force has to be reacted against something else. Otherwise Newton would be spinning at an ever-accelerating rate in his grave.