It represents an attempt at a perpetual motion machine
Perpetual motion does not work because it assumes you never have to add more energy to a system or engine once it starts. Friction, gravity and other petty annoyances like them are imagined out of existence. Without them, the machine can go on forever. However, only a system with no other forces present can make it work, which means it can’t.
Inertialess drive is slightly different and therefore may work. What is posited is that the vessel stands independent of the universe and as it moves it reorients the universe using the vessel as the fixed point. It does require energy, lots of it, a significant difference from perpetual motion. The theory also recognizes that small problems like solar bodies, black holes and the atoms and molecules spread randomly throughout space may bring your trip to an unfortunate termination because impact at high speed imparts great mass to the impacted object. But you can move as fast as you’d like otherwise.
In a word, it is theoretically possible, (bearly), just not currently feasible.
Comments are closed