' Wrote:My two cents regarding this.
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Weapon Analysis.
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SUPER NOVA ANTIMATTER CANNON FUNCTIONALITY:
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The weapon houses a small particle accelerator that bombards subatomic particles towards each other. The initial breakthrough came from observing how the interstellar Jumpgates worked that allowed the Agiera scientists to create FTSL accelerators in such a miniature casing.
As the particles break apart (precision bombarding allows minimal randomness and the required particles are allocated and suspended in an electromagnetic container). They rotate and gain energy as more and more of them accumulate till they are released in the general direction of the target. The resulting Ejecta forms simple antimatter structures within a pico-second of being released and has a very small half-life. It also annihilates any matter in its path (generally stray hydrogen atoms in space, though some scientists are working on having these guns fire an antimatter shot followed by a blob of concentrated hydrogen at a slightly faster speed to increase efficiency.) resulting in a massive exothermic event. Due to inertia the generated heat moves towards the target and super heats it causing damage of massive proportions (The effect upclose was reported to mimic supernova on a smaller scale and small amount of Gamma radiation was also observed).
Sidenote: The weapon has been mainly ineffective in larger vessels as the general mass of the vessel interferes with the electromagnetic accelarators..
Don't you guys know anything about physics? Antimatter can be stored, and has already been done. Here's how:
1: Get a vacuum container
2: Put maganetic field in to hold antimatter in place.
3: Insert antimatter.
It HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE, in very small amounts. VERY small amounts. The problem is, the particles must be charged, either positively or negatively. Scientist could never create a full atom of anti hydrogen, for example, because it became neutrally charged and the magnetic field lost effect. However, In the far future, I believe it would be easily possible to create a blob of charged antimatter and store it safely.
Quote:This weapon is pretty straightforward, take an already big gun, overcharge it, add additional highpowered capacitors, charge it a bit above maximum capacity and then fire. While the idea is simple, the result is not. A massive drain on the powerplant, for a massive effect. A stream of field stabilized antimatter gushes towards its target at a rather slow pace. Be warned that when it hits it will rip everything. This weapon sacrifices efficiency, speed and refire to get the most massive damage in one go avaliable to fighters. It is built by many private weapon labs across Sirius, although even the latest version is always expensive and difficult to use.
some people here need to read Angels & Demons from Dan Brown (great book btw, the movie sucks) to learn more about antimater :nyam:
in the book (and in REAL LIFE) they use this container with regular magnets repelling wich other, and forcing all the mater out (yes all mater includes air) the antimater dont touch the magnts because its being force to levitate in the center of the conteiner due to the magnet force.
now its preety simple, put this container inside of a tropedo or missile whatever (once more this can be done already in real life) the tropedo detonates breaking the container, and the antimater goes wild! :yahoo: doing her job eleminating matter in a vuuum (just like a freaking vuvuzela, or not)
tropedo missiles and projectil capable of carring the container can be used to carry an antimeter bomb, its possible
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now the snac... :wacko: hum, i have to say that shooting antimater like that would destroy your ship (and you) since it would touch your cannon, eleminating it, and anything that were attached like your ship, and you on your seat...
i have to say that in 3017AC (or so) its much more plausible too shoot plasma out off a cannon, but then again i think that this plasma cannon would look more like a particle accelerator than with a regular cannon
If the antimatter is repelled from the sides of the barrel, and you're not in atmospheric flight, your ship won't blow up. Also to note, force fields. They would not set off antimatter. I'm prettysure that technology is plausible for that time period.
' Wrote:If the antimatter is repelled from the sides of the barrel, and you're not in atmospheric flight, your ship won't blow up. Also to note, force fields. They would not set off antimatter. I'm prettysure that technology is plausible for that time period.
:nyam:i do agree with you
but why are we dicussing this? all people on the forum are not going to live enough to see it (exept for me:D)