And the Hello and welcome to Sears Inquiries only this is episode 431. I'm your host

Thomas Smith and today we've got some fun science for you.

Have you ever heard of the M drive as an EM? It was something that is vaguely

familiar to me. It's a concept for a thruster for a

spacecraft that got a lot of buzz and seemed to show promising results, but

there's just one problem and that problem is that it should be impossible. It seems to

violate the law of conservation and momentum and you know other laws of physics too.

I feel like when it comes to laws of physics it's usually a one strike you're out like you violate

one you're done but but yeah point is what's going on here what happened what

should we think about this is it real is it not well who better to take us through those questions than Dr. Brian Gillis?

He's going to tell us all about it and in the process we're going to learn a lot about not just science,

but kind of how science is done that I think is really fascinating stuff.

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And with that, let's get on over to Dr. Brian Gillis and talk about the M drive.

And welcome back to the show Dr. Brian Gillis.

Everyone's favorite astrophysicist. How are you doing Brian?

I'm good. Don't tell that to the other astrophysicist you add on recently.

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