Most of us interested in inertial propulsion eventually find themselves imagining their own version of a “Universal Drive” — a mechanism that could produce thrust using only internal motion. So I’m just curious… Hypothetically… What kind of mechanism have YOU been thinking about? Would it use rotating masses, reciprocating masses, or something else entirely? Where would the asymmetry come from? Would it produce a continuous push, or a pulsed impulse? No need for a finished design — sketches and/or half-formed ideas are welcome. Some of the most interesting discussions I have had start with the machines people have only been dreaming about.

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I mentioned before the thoughts of a small group of people who would be working on something a bit larger in scale than the PIE. This would be a select, and private group, and an application along with an NDA would be needed to join. I won't entertain the idea if there is no interest. And a "heads-up" there would be a small cost to be involved with this covering administrative fees. If you were to get started into it and find you do not want to continue, there would be a 14 day grace period before paying anything (it's only fair), but the legally binding NDA would stand. There are no other details yet as this is only a "scouting mission" to determine interest. Please let me know a simple yes or no. No hard feelings either way, and if you'd rather DM me privately I fully understand. Thanks!

Hey folks, As of today, I released a new publication which attempts to rigorously formalize spatial mass displacement system (colloquial known as inertial displacement systems) into 3 fundamental categories, in terms of the Mach formalism I put forward back in August. It was mostly written in response to folks who keep saying that this field is dead, and genuine thrust based systems remain an impossibility. Its titled:"A Short Historical and Technical Examination of Fundamental Spatial Mass Displacement Systems" You can can read my working version here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/403702161_A_Short_Historical_and_Technical_Examination_of_Fundamental_Spatial_Mass_Displacement_Systems Even though it says its a "short" “examination”, this field is far too broad, containing all manner of nuance, for me to cover every system with extreme analytical rigor. That being said I place a number of well known systems in "the hot seat" and try to give fair and tactful treatments. The good news is, now that I've finished this, I can probably work on making lesson plans/scripts for skool that covers such items in more detail! This work ended up being about 100 ish pages, and when I started 4 months ago I thought it would only be around 40-50 at most. I'm still in the midst of small final edits—it in terms of writing— but as is. it contains very important information for enthusiast and builders alike. I'm human like anyone else, so I'm not the all knowing final word on this matter. I just hope it pushes the field forward. Nam qui curat

I want to welcome David Mathes to The Workshop, I appreciate that you are here! David has interest in multiple areas of propulsion and science including inertial, gravitic and electrostatic... Truly "Universal Propulsion"!!! David, feel free to look around, comment, post, or just "hang out"! Note: My apologies for the delay! Not sure what happened to my welcome post, I intended for it to be posted here a couple of days ago...