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Old 07-11-2016, 04:06 PM   #4
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Default Re: [Spaceships] Please look over my ship designs

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Originally Posted by RogerBW View Post
It's a setting assumption that getting a boom rather than a prolonged fizzle out of antimatter takes work. (The energy release tends to push the reacting surfaces apart. This is the best current theory I could find while working on Meltdown and Fallout.)
So the end effect is it is very bad for the ship it happens on, but the blast wouldn't really expand into the surroundings very far? I also suspect radiation would be pretty bad onboard any ship this happened on, but I think it would be a moot point for all but the smallest releases of antimatter.
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