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Re: solid energy physics
Posted By: Hikaru-119 <lieutenant_hikaru_119@yahoo.com>Date: 9/18/06 3:19 p.m.

In Response To: Re: solid energy physics (Wado SG)

: Well what I like about your idea is that it actually takes into account the
: containment field used to deliver the payload (plasma). The first key to
: any sucessful weapon is in the delivery system. If you can neutralize the
: delivery system, you can often neutralize the weapon.

: To even get a weapon like a plasma bolt to work, a new kind of physics needs
: to be invented. We already know the Covenant have shields, an extension of
: that technology is something I could call solid energy physics. Basically
: it moves to a fifth state of matter called "stasis". A state in
: which energy takes on the properties of solid mass.

: Imagine actually being able to control time in an area so that it moves at a
: slower rate within a containment field. Ordinarily when something is
: frozen, it loses energy until it becomes solid. The idea of stasis is that
: no energy is lost only that time is slowed way down.

: For simplicity let's call this time containment field a "time
: bubble". If I pulled the pin on a grenade and put it in a time bubble
: just as it exploded. The grenade would still be exploding but at a very
: slow rate relative to those outside the time bubble. Maybe it would take
: millions of years for the explosion to be observed.

: As soon as this time bubble is disrupted, the grenade would explode in real
: time. If I could move this time bubble across distances, I would have a
: delivery system for a weapon, an awesome weapon.

: Anyway, for Covenant plasma weapons to work the way they are described, I
: figure that the containment field, although magnetic in nature, might
: actually be manipulating time. I don't believe any normal strength
: magnetic field could disrupt this thus using conventional magnetics to
: disrupt the plasma bolts would be mostly ineffective.

: Just some thoughts.

Possibly but I always thought it used magnets and ionization. It would be simple. Send a laser out ahead of the plasma and it would travel along that ionized trail of air. I know this would only apply to the infantry weapons, but still it might work. The only exception to this rule that I can think of is the charged blast from a plasma pistol with its bizarre tracking ability.

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Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?Gryphonosiris 9/18/06 12:58 p.m.
     Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?Frankie 9/18/06 1:06 p.m.
           It really is spiders, isn't it? Blue spiders! *NM*Recon#54 9/18/06 1:18 p.m.
           Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?Document 9/18/06 1:24 p.m.
           Well, that just takes the fun out of it Frankie... *NM*Gryphonosiris 9/18/06 1:34 p.m.
           ORLY?Peptuck 9/18/06 1:47 p.m.
           Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?ShortRoundMcfly 9/18/06 4:02 p.m.
           Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?Omega 9/18/06 5:10 p.m.
                 Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?UrsusArctos 9/18/06 11:26 p.m.
           Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?jdogmoney 9/18/06 5:49 p.m.
                 Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?Kiloh Ekim 9/18/06 8:44 p.m.
                       Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?jdogmoney 9/18/06 11:50 p.m.
           Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?UrsusArctos 9/18/06 11:19 p.m.
           Re: Could Covenant Plasma weapons be disrupted?Darth Troocuda 9/24/06 3:51 p.m.
     Re: solid energy physicsWado SG 9/18/06 2:42 p.m.
           *Brain explodes*Gryphonosiris 9/18/06 2:52 p.m.
                 Re: *Brain explodes*Wado SG 9/18/06 3:20 p.m.
                       Fevered speculationyakaman 9/18/06 5:29 p.m.
                             Re: Fevered speculationWado SG 9/18/06 5:38 p.m.
                                   Re: Fevered speculationWado SG 9/18/06 5:52 p.m.
                             I KNEW we'd get around to killing cats eventually. *NM*Louis Wu 9/18/06 7:09 p.m.
                                   The only Shroedinger's Cat explanation I ever got:jdogmoney 9/18/06 7:33 p.m.
                                         ^^ Funniest thing I ever read. *NM*Vlad3163 9/18/06 7:47 p.m.
                                               Wait, that was the wrong one...jdogmoney 9/18/06 7:52 p.m.
                                   FTW Travel?Wado SG 9/18/06 8:38 p.m.
                                         Re: FTW Travel?Document 9/19/06 6:35 p.m.
                                   Re: I KNEW we'd get around to killing cats eventuaStuntmutt 9/19/06 3:43 a.m.
                                         Re: I KNEW we'd get around to killing cats eventuaNarcogen 9/19/06 3:53 a.m.
                                               Discount card?Louis Wu 9/19/06 8:33 a.m.
                                                     Re: Discount card?Raging Aura 9/24/06 11:16 p.m.
                             Re: Fevered speculationDocument 9/19/06 11:15 a.m.
                                   Re: Fevered speculationBlack Guard 9/24/06 11:27 p.m.
           Re: solid energy physicsHikaru-119 9/18/06 3:19 p.m.
                 Re: solid energy physicsWado SG 9/18/06 3:26 p.m.
     particle acceleratorsWado SG 9/18/06 4:29 p.m.
           Re: particle acceleratorsjdogmoney 9/18/06 6:19 p.m.
                 Re: particle acceleratorsWado SG 9/18/06 6:50 p.m.
                       Antimatter *NM*Raging Aura 9/24/06 11:13 p.m.
                             Re: AntimatterSlith 9/25/06 3:16 a.m.



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