> > > Now, I may be missing something (and if I am, by all means, fill me in), but what is the point of this? Is this just science for its own sake, or is there an application I just don't see?
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> > well off the top of my non-scientific mind, discovering how to make enough energy to create a universe would make a rather powerful stardrive. . . FTL travel may be possible with that much energy. I remember it takes a BOATLOAD of energy to make antimatter, and that physicists have now said that a matter/antimatter mix may be the key to FTL travel (how DID star trek get that right???) . .so if you could harness that much power and use it to make antimatter. . .
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> Umm... that thing is huge. The pipes were several miles long. That makes it a fairly impractical anything-drive.
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> Dar "Bite me, I'm HUGE!" ien


no, you don't use THAT as your star drive. you use that to generate the power necessary to make the antimatter to fuel your matter/antimatter star drive.