[mcnamaratw]

Yeah imagine if someone had made similarly exciting claims about an unexpected and so-far impossible-sounding wrinkle in how gcc works. A bunch of people tested gcc and got all different results. Nobody cites any of the results or discusses any detail.

Everyone would be asking to see the code and the output for themselves before they got excited.

Wikipedia says that the experimental tests disagree on even the sign of the measured force:

"An article published by Shawyer in Acta Astronautica summarises the existing tests on the EmDrive. Of seven tests, four produced a measured force in the intended direction, and three produced thrust in the opposite direction. Furthermore, in one of the tests, thrust could be produced in either direction by varying the spring constants in the measuring apparatus. Shawyer argues that the thrust measured in the opposite direction is the reaction force from the drive, and therefore it is consistent with Newtonian mechanics.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster#St...

[yxhuvud]

One thing to note though I'd that the theory of the OP could actually explain that sign shift.

[mcnamaratw]

Another way to explain the sign shift, though, is that the thrust might be zero and experimental errors come out both positive and negative.