RE: [RFC][Info] Playing with Boom-Boom (Or, Antimatter and You - A Children's Parable)
04-14-2019, 02:13 AM
04-14-2019, 02:13 AM
I guess I should get into details on what the projectiles are like and how they function
Basically, they're like elongated paintballs with a tail for stabilization purposes. They have no guidance or propulsion - they are 100% ballistic.
The outer shell is a gel-like material that is not soluble with water. Inside this shell is a filling of 'neutral matter'. That is not 'particles with a neutral charge', it is the middle-ground between matter and antimatter and has been hypothesized by Albert Einstein to exist.
This filling keeps the antimatter safely out of contact with any matter and is the same consistency as uncooked egg whites.
But how things are arranged inside is where it gets interesting. The matter and antimatter (these being simple water and antiwater) are arranged in hundreds of thousands of packets about the size of red blood platelets, alternating between water and antiwater. Each of these alternating packets are tied together with a molecular chain that, upon the rupturing of the projectile shell, suddenly collapses and brings the two packets together.
Even with this, I know that there won't be a totally even annihilation, but it should be close enough that perfect annihilation won't be much better.
For Beam Shots, that's a bit different. Ben will form a secondary 'reaction chamber' in his arm where a rapid but controlled annihilation takes place. In the meantime, the energy and particles are bottle up and collimated. Once annihilation is complete, the energy is released. Keep in mind, that all takes place in just few thousandths of a second - the longest part is the actual release, which can take up to a second (depending on how much was annihilated) until the 'firing chamber' is clear.
Thoughts?
Basically, they're like elongated paintballs with a tail for stabilization purposes. They have no guidance or propulsion - they are 100% ballistic.
The outer shell is a gel-like material that is not soluble with water. Inside this shell is a filling of 'neutral matter'. That is not 'particles with a neutral charge', it is the middle-ground between matter and antimatter and has been hypothesized by Albert Einstein to exist.
This filling keeps the antimatter safely out of contact with any matter and is the same consistency as uncooked egg whites.
But how things are arranged inside is where it gets interesting. The matter and antimatter (these being simple water and antiwater) are arranged in hundreds of thousands of packets about the size of red blood platelets, alternating between water and antiwater. Each of these alternating packets are tied together with a molecular chain that, upon the rupturing of the projectile shell, suddenly collapses and brings the two packets together.
Even with this, I know that there won't be a totally even annihilation, but it should be close enough that perfect annihilation won't be much better.
For Beam Shots, that's a bit different. Ben will form a secondary 'reaction chamber' in his arm where a rapid but controlled annihilation takes place. In the meantime, the energy and particles are bottle up and collimated. Once annihilation is complete, the energy is released. Keep in mind, that all takes place in just few thousandths of a second - the longest part is the actual release, which can take up to a second (depending on how much was annihilated) until the 'firing chamber' is clear.
Thoughts?