' Wrote:Your mum has a gravitational field.
Also, it's not invisible, just not visible to anything we have.
No, it won't emit radiation of any kind. It CAN be detected by mapping gravitational fields and whatnot. And don't talk about my mother, or you will wake up with missy cat on your face. She's the one that taught me this stuff, anyway. She's a college professor.
I'm going to say this once.. If people keep spamming this thread, those who do will find me doing a whole lot worse than just removing your posts the next time around.
' Wrote:While I like your thinking, I don't quite approve of it, for a few reasons.
First off, you called it a small star. No such thing. The definition of a star is something big enough that its gravity causes nuclear fusion. A small star, while you could theoretically compress it enough for fusion, would break up the moment the pressure is released.
When they coined the term 'Super Nova' for the gun, it was meant to sound cool, nothing more.
Second, I believe H-fuel is not used in fusion. It is simply burned, like gasoline. The concept has already been put to use, I'm pretty sure the NASA space shuttles use H-fuel.
1. what else to you call a small sun like fusion reaction? so what if it's artificial gravity that spawns it?
2. It doesn't really need it to be self sustaining, just coherent for a few seconds
3. sure "super-nova" was a cool name, I just thought it would also be cool to have it's "physics" somewhat match it's name
4. NASA's space shuttles use liquid Hydrogen (H) and liquid Oxygen (O2) for the main engines. no H2 or He3 at all. (and H-fuel does not contain any O2)
if you do a search "he3 fusion" you will come up with the kind of thing that sparked my line of thinking.
Besides I didn't think I needed to be 100% scientifically accurate anyway, it's sci-fi.
I made my suggestion, I'm not going to argue over any further, like it or don't.
Did any one even bothered to read my last post all the way? :(
I resolved the problem of antimater killing the ship by having it created at the moment of the shot outside the ship. and theorized that the inertia of the shot will move the antimatter away from the ship faster than the explosion.
The Supernova name in "my" fantasy version comes from the extreme heat and gamma radiation observed at the impact sight of the shot.
As for Dark matter. It most probably is not antimatter, though it potentially could be both antimatter and matter, frankly we just do not know. All we know is something exists that causes gravitational effects on its surroundings which can not be ruled out by any known phenomenon we know of.
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We can make tiny bits of antimatter now.. I think. But It can be only hold in magnetic field. I guess in 2000 years there will be lots of ways to make lots it and keep it safe and keep it from touching matter because it touches matter it goes boom.. so far I think we can do it.