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Gedaliah:
Plasma, even the colder plasmas, are thousands of degrees Celsius wile clearly not to the temperature of air's flash point. Even 1,000Celsius is enough to spontaneously combust many common things.

Anti-Matter? I don't even have to examine the facts to know it's not even enough credit. A nuclear reaction does not even harness a fraction of atom potential power. A Anti-Matter reaction, the canselation of atoms, would either produce no kinetic energy, or enough kinetic energy to set off a miles wide nuclear chain reaction with no survivable end in sight. Which would then produce a even bigger thermal explosion.

There would be no containing the reaction because unlike standard explosion that that apply force on a macroscopic level a fusion/fission brakes down mater on a atomic level. It's not a question of if something can withstand the reaction, it's a question of how far will the sub-atomic 'smoking ashes' be scattered, if there is even that left.

I'm guess I'm not on bored with the whole sci-fi thing in such a near future, I'm wondering how the alien's play with the laws of physics.

Edit from my last post:

As far as detection goes? It's again a question of volume vs how sensitive you can become. Wile it's easily drown out in the earth's magnetic field, solar radiation, or standard radio waves, I assure you that even the keyboard you've been typing on, being run by electricity, is putting out a EM pulse. The alien, using both prodigies amounts of power, and having non-'local' power generation should stick out like a star going supernova.

For that matter the EM field put out my a anti-matter reaction should blanket out any other signal, radar, radio, TV:D,your microwave:twisted: ,  etc. A nuke puts out a miles wide pulse. The aliens have a bigger, and sustained output to track. I guess detection would just be a matter of havening enough listening posts in the right places to track the source.

Wanderer:

--- Quote from: "Gedaliah" ---Anti-Matter? I don't even have to examine the facts to know it's not even enough credit.
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This alone should have stopped me from continuing to read...


--- Quote from: "Gedaliah" ---A nuclear reaction does not even harness a fraction of atom potential power.
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By it's very half-life nature, this is a fact.


--- Quote from: "Gedaliah" ---A[n] Anti-Matter reaction, the canselation of atoms, would either produce no kinetic energy, or enough kinetic energy to set off a miles wide nuclear chain reaction with no survivable end in sight.
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Nullification of matter, or immediate conversion to energy are the two theoretical possibilities of forcing a positve matter and negative matter particle into the same spacetime.  The reason nullification exists as a theoretical is because it is unknown if the particle would react in this dimension or the one the negative matter is retrieved from.  This energy would be as subatomic as heat, electricity, or gravity... all forms of energy, and all containable.  There is no matter moving from the point of cohesion to cause an uncontrolled chain reaction.

The question therefore, does not come from the concept of 'mini-explosion' corroding and firing neutrons into other atoms, causing a subatomic split (fission), but from a matter of how do you contain a miniature sun at the time of explosion.  This becomes a matter of physics, not chemistry, at this point.


--- Quote from: "Gedaliah" ---Plasma, even the colder plasmas, are thousands of degrees Celsius wile clearly not to the temperature of air's flash point. Even 1,000Celsius is enough to spontaneously combust many common things.
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To human understanding of plasma, I can't argue this one.  There's a reason it's usually held in magnetic bottles.

However, it was a really cool weapon in the original, long loved by old fans of the game who turned a blind eye to this.  I'd love to see it act like a flying piece of napalm though. :)  "Burnin' down da house!"

pma:
Hi,

although I can"t understand most of the post of Gedaliah, I am just willing to comment on the properties of plasma. Yes Plasma are hot. Yet it is not mandatory to contain any kind of plasma into magnetic film. I can remeber that lang ago I had a partical lecture on plasma. We had a tube in which we where generated a plasma of Argon. The electronic temperature was about 22000K (Hot hu ?) And guess what, the glass containing the plasma was not melting at all. I will not explain you why. It would be too long. Yet I can't see any simple theoretical reasons that would prevent good-evil engineers from developing plasma weapons.

Regards.

Alex:
I worked as a computer programmer developing software to run a CNC plasma cutter.  These cutters will burn through inches of steel and there are no safety containment fields or anything like that - just a jet of ordinary compressed air forced past a spark-gap.

I even hear plasma is being used to deal with municipal waste.

Can't see why it can't be used to, I dunno, blow shit up.

Wanderer:

--- Quote from: "Alex" ---I worked as a computer programmer developing software to run a CNC plasma cutter.  These cutters will burn through inches of steel and there are no safety containment fields or anything like that - just a jet of ordinary compressed air forced past a spark-gap.

I even hear plasma is being used to deal with municipal waste.

Can't see why it can't be used to, I dunno, blow shit up.
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News to me. I'll apparently have to do research.  The plasma I have in mind is the hypertemperature goo that's usually suspended in a vacuum.

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