Main      Site Guide    
Message Forum
Re: Move over, global warming .....
Posted By: enile, on host 195.54.240.4
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999, at 02:12:07
In Reply To: Re: Move over, global warming ..... posted by Darien on Tuesday, July 20, 1999, at 23:45:00:

> > > > > 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?
> > >
> > > > 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. . .
> > >
> > > Umm... that thing is huge. The pipes were several miles long. That makes it a fairly impractical anything-drive.
> > >
> > 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.
>
> How do you transport the antimatter from there to the star-drive? Antimatter canna really be transported... you'd kinda have to generate it on-site.

I usually keep mine suspended in a magnetic field inside a vacuum flask.

en"don't, whatever you do, unplug it"ile