{"id":9370,"date":"2014-12-04T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T22:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2014-12-04T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T22:39:11","slug":"sci-tech-machs-principle-james-woodward-and-propellantless-propulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9370","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: Mach’s principle, James Woodward, and propellantless propulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last January\u00a0at the\u00a0NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium<\/a>, Gary Hudson<\/a>, head of the\u00a0 Space Studies Institute<\/a>, outlined the experimental investigation\u00a0that\u00a0\u00a0James Woodward<\/a>\u00a0at California State University Fullerton has been doing for many years into the question of whether\u00a0Mach’s principle<\/a>\u00a0leads to\u00a0propellantless propulsion. (See Gary’s talk in this\u00a0NIAC 2014 video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Recently Charles Platt posted an interesting update\u00a0on Woodward’s work\u00a0: \u00a0Strange thrust: the unproven science that could propel our children into space – Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Space Studies institute\u00a0has been providing some funding for Woodward via SSI’s\u00a0Exotic Propulsion Initiative<\/a>.\u00a0There is a donation button there if you would like\u00a0to help the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last January\u00a0at the\u00a0NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium, Gary Hudson, head of the\u00a0 Space Studies Institute, outlined the experimental investigation\u00a0that\u00a0\u00a0James Woodward\u00a0at California State University Fullerton has been doing for many years into the question of whether\u00a0Mach’s principle\u00a0leads to\u00a0propellantless propulsion. (See Gary’s talk in this\u00a0NIAC 2014 video.) Recently Charles Platt posted an interesting update\u00a0on Woodward’s work\u00a0: \u00a0Strange … Continue reading Sci-Tech: Mach’s principle, James Woodward, and propellantless propulsion<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2r8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7773,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7773","url_meta":{"origin":9370,"position":0},"title":"John G. 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