01-28-2018, 04:46 PM | #21 | |
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Re: Plasma Guns
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Edit: Since you have the technology to magnetically suspend matter at immense pressure and give it virtually no thermal loss firing bolts of liquid hydrogen may be preferable. The near instantaneous flash freezing coupled with liquid hydrogen's propensity to flow through barriers via quantum effects means that it will heavily rive armour even if delivered in relatively small packages (more is obviously better) Last edited by starslayer; 01-28-2018 at 04:58 PM. |
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01-28-2018, 05:01 PM | #22 |
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Re: Plasma Guns
Interesting... I quite like the possibilities.
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01-28-2018, 05:07 PM | #23 |
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Re: Plasma Guns
So there's another kind of plasma gun where you have a small, dedicated wormhole orbiting the plasma in a star and the other end of the wormhole connects to your gun and it opens when you pull the trigger. You just sort of hose plasma around like a ridiculously dangerous high-tech version of a flame-thrower. The wielder should probably have some form of protective gear on though.
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01-28-2018, 06:03 PM | #24 |
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01-28-2018, 07:43 PM | #25 |
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Re: Plasma Guns
A thought occurs to me: since the hypothetical plasma ball needs some kind of superscience containment anyway, and keeping it hot means the containment reflects the radiated energy back into the plasma, that suggests an interesting visual image.
The 'shots' of such a weapon, whether at hand scale or cannon level or on up, might not look like the blazing fireballs of SF, but rather like perfectly spherical mirrors, since the containment effect might also be reflective from the outside. Imagine the weapon fires and a stream of tiny spheres emerges at tremendous velocity, flashing in the sunlight like tiny beads of perfectly spherical glass...of course, in the dark, they'd be invisible. No light show at all.
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01-28-2018, 08:52 PM | #26 |
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So What's the most damage that could be done by a 20mm ball of plasma and how does that compare with the scorching hot carbon or the liquid hydrogen?
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01-28-2018, 09:06 PM | #27 |
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Re: Plasma Guns
Nearly arbitrary until you put some kind of constraints on the confinement or filling beyond 'plasma'. Because we can add an awful lot of mass and heat to that ball before it stops being plasma.
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01-28-2018, 10:34 PM | #28 | |
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At atmospheric pressure, about 0, one if we are being generous (of course the ball of plasma will also be almost weightless). |
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01-28-2018, 10:37 PM | #29 | |
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On the other hand, a 20mm ball of plasma at one atmosphere of pressure will have an energy content of 10-20J and might blister unprotected skin, but not much more. So really, it depends on what 'plasma' means. |
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01-28-2018, 11:19 PM | #30 | |
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