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Damn it. The Epstein drive is a fusion drive. It's far more plausible than this voodoo quackery, the only thing keeping it out of reality is the fact that nothing that size could handle the wattage without becoming a rapidly expanding cloud of plasma.

Everyone that hopes for a bright future would absolutely love a reactionless drive. I'd love it. But it's not real. We've seen lots of very bad methodology and things like researchers ignoring the fact that a null setup still produces the same thrust even though the drive has been modified not to work. With forces of this tiny order of magnitude it's incredibly hard to get accurate readings, and readings within the margin of error of the instrumentation should not be reported to sensationalist media as promising.

This is just another one of those ufo antigravity quacks you see on youtube, but somehow they got their day in court. I can't explain how much I'd love to be proven wrong, but reactionless drives are physically ludicrous in every single way we understand the universe. Is it possible for us to be wrong? Sure. Is it possible that we're wrong about literally every observation we've ever made in the history of physics? I very much doubt it and it's going to take more than a badly set-up experiment featuring a microwave stuffed into a tuba to convince anyone of that.