00:00In 2023, an ex-NASA engineer claimed he built a machine that can lift itself against gravity without using any fuel.
00:10No rockets, no fire, no exhaust, just electricity.
00:16If true, it would break the most sacred laws in physics and rewrite everything we know about space travel.
00:22So, is this just another hoax or a door to the future?
00:26The engineer's name is Charles Buehler.
00:30He used to work for NASA, making sure rockets don't blow up randomly.
00:34He was a part of the Space Shuttle, Hubble, ISS, and other huge projects.
00:40Now, Buehler and his team work at a private company called Exodus Propulsion Technologies,
00:46trying to build a long-term dream of space engineers, a spacecraft that doesn't need fuel.
00:52It's the kind of thing that would instantly change everything about space travel.
00:57Just think of the future where you could go to the moon, Mars, or wherever you'd like without spending tons of resources.
01:04And he claims that he and his team have finally cracked the code.
01:09That they've built a machine that can lift itself in the air without any propellant.
01:14You got it right. The team claims to have violated Newton's Third Law, the basic rule of our world that every action needs an equal and opposite reaction.
01:24For example, in rockets, you throw fuel out the back, that's action.
01:29Being pushed by it, the rocket goes forward, that's the reaction.
01:33A magical device like that would also violate the conservation of momentum.
01:39When you push on something, you gain momentum.
01:41But something else has to gain equal momentum in the opposite direction to balance the books.
01:47But this device would change the total momentum of the system out of nowhere.
01:52If you're getting motion without pushing against anything, how in the world did you do that?
01:57It's like a balloon that can somehow move forward without blowing out any air.
02:01If the machine actually works, there must be some new, unknown force of nature that we've somehow missed in hundreds of years of physics.
02:11Bueller himself called it the new force.
02:14Let's try to figure it out.
02:16To create this magical device, they used electrostatics.
02:20Their test device was little.
02:22A 30-gram object, about the size of a card deck, and it managed to create thrust or push using electric fields.
02:30A kind of invisible force made by electric charges.
02:35The new force starts working when two things happen in the system.
02:39The first one is electric imbalance.
02:42There's some electric pressure happening across parts of the device, kind of like air pressure.
02:47If it's not spread out evenly across it, for example, one side has more electric push than the other, that's the first ingredient.
02:55And that happens when the electric field, the invisible force that electric charges create, is set up just right.
03:02It has to spread out in a certain way.
03:05Not in straight lines, but uneven and fanning out, like sun rays or the spokes of a wheel.
03:11And boom!
03:12When it happens, the device pushes on itself and makes the whole object move.
03:17At first, the mysterious new force was tiny, barely noticeable, little to no thrust and noise.
03:25But with each upgrade, things started to shift.
03:28And in 2023, they finally measured enough thrust to overcome Earth's gravity.
03:34The weirdest part is that, according to Buehler, in some cases, the thrust keeps going even when the power is off,
03:41as long as there's still charge left in the materials.
03:45That's weird.
03:46That's really weird.
03:48That hints at something totally new in physics.
03:51Something deeper than we currently understand.
03:53So now, any honest scientist starts sweating.
03:57Because that sounds bananas.
03:59And frankly, it might be.
04:01Buehler admits this is still early work.
04:04The team published their discovery and got a patent.
04:06By the way, the company includes people who've worked at NASA, Blue Origin, and the U.S. Air Force.
04:13They've been tinkering with this stuff for decades.
04:16Charles presented his findings at APEC, a conference for people who are passionate about alternative propulsion
04:22and crazy stuff like warp drives, anti-gravity, and ways to make Star Trek real.
04:28Now, they're actively working on that project.
04:31Of course, this stuff got very controversial, and lots of scientists are skeptical.
04:38There might be a mistake no one has caught yet.
04:40So, they want to test the machine in space.
04:43If it works out there, too, it could change space travel forever.
04:48It might be real.
04:50Because it's not the first time we've discovered something like this.
04:53Recently, a startup called Evo Limited claimed that they'd built a quantum drive,
04:58another propulsion device that apparently didn't need fuel.
05:03They said they're tapping into a weird, controversial theory of physics called quantized inertia.
05:09It was cooked up by a British physicist named Mike McCulloch.
05:13He basically said that inertia, the thing that makes objects resist acceleration,
05:18isn't a basic rule of nature, but an effect caused by some weird quantum radiation at the edge of the observable universe.
05:27In simple words, if QI is right, then under the right conditions,
05:31you might be able to generate thrust without throwing anything backward.
05:36You don't need fuel, just electricity and a clever enough setup.
05:40Many scientists don't buy into it, but who knows?
05:43Maybe that's why these new inventions could actually work.
05:47Anyway, initially, the Ivo company was founded by a small team of tech guys who wanted to find wireless power.
05:55Their first big idea was called CBAT, Capacitive Based Aerial Transmission.
06:00Basically, a fancy way to wirelessly send electricity through the air.
06:05But somewhere along the way, they pivoted.
06:07They started wondering, if we can move electricity through the air like this, can we move objects too?
06:14Can we rethink inertia itself?
06:18So, in 2021, they began working on a propulsion device based on this quantized inertia theory.
06:25They built the quantum drive around this idea.
06:28It was a self-contained electric system.
06:31No fuel tanks, no combustion.
06:33Just a plug-and-play box that makes spacecraft move.
06:36They said it's light, stackable, and can be bolted onto a satellite like a toaster.
06:42And it weighs just a few hundred grams.
06:45Way lighter than traditional thrusters.
06:47In 2023, they tested it.
06:50Not in someone's garage, but in a legit vacuum chamber, simulating space conditions.
06:56The team said they ruled out every known force that might explain the results.
07:00And that it did generate thrust.
07:02Not a lot, but consistent and measurable.
07:06Then came the big moment.
07:08IVO and a partner company, Rogue Space Systems, launched the quantum drive into space.
07:13And now, they're waiting for the results of the tests.
07:17A lot of physicists think it's all nonsense.
07:20Some of them noticed that this stuff is impossible because they'd be perpetual motion machines.
07:25Basically, if a device like this actually worked, you could use it to make infinite energy, which violates the first law of thermodynamics.
07:34But IVO says they're not doing that.
07:37They say QI works within our normal Newton's laws, just a bit differently.
07:43Anyway, all this stuff needs double-checking.
07:46Skepticism is so right because a lot of people get some unpleasant flashbacks.
07:51In 2001, a British engineer named Roger Scheuer introduced the M-Drive.
07:57It was this weird cone-shaped device that supposedly created thrust without pushing anything out the back.
08:03People were super excited.
08:06NASA even tested it with their Eagle Works team.
08:09And in 2016, they said they've detected tiny amounts of thrust from the M-Drive.
08:13The media absolutely blew up.
08:17People and scientists were hyped up.
08:19But later, bigger studies, including one from a German university that really went deep, found the sad result.
08:26It was just an experimental error.
08:28By 2021, the verdict was in.
08:30The M-Drive didn't work.
08:33It was all experimental noise.
08:35Misunderstood data.
08:36Another dream went down the drain.
08:38Many propellant-less designs have crashed into one huge stubborn wall.
08:44The laws of physics.
08:46So it's too early to say that these startups just changed the world forever.
08:50But if it turns out to be real, it's not just a new engine.
08:54It's a new era.
08:55That's it for today.
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