11-30-2015, 06:10 PM | #1 | |
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Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
The description of antiparticle beams says...
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So, is it purely what the chart says, or does it also cause surges and rad damage?
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11-30-2015, 06:19 PM | #2 | |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
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Realistically, any radiation dose strong enough to cause prompt burns will be instantly fatal to any tissue near the burn (the rest of you might survive, depending on how well focused the radiation is); there isn't anything really that will produce the modest but non-negligible levels of the Rad enhancement. |
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11-30-2015, 07:08 PM | #3 | |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
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11-30-2015, 07:18 PM | #4 | |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
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You have to be going very fast, even for a particle beam, for your kinetic energy to be as big as your mass energy.
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11-30-2015, 07:34 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
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The first is tricky because we don't know how many anti-particles are actually produced for any given weapon. The second is even trickier. It may be that the radiation is more dangerous to those nearby than the actual target! |
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11-30-2015, 08:21 PM | #6 |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
Not referring to just producing the antimatter-- you also have to get a coherent beam of it, preferably in a way that doesn't irradiate the wielder, and then send it through atmosphere, which probably requires force fields.
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11-30-2015, 08:56 PM | #7 |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
LwCamp once said that for an efficient particle beam designed for space combat (I think it was using hydrogen atoms at .5 c)the antiparticles would add about 2% more energy.
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11-30-2015, 11:51 PM | #8 | |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
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It's possible that they'd add about 2% useful energy somehow, but at that speed the kinetic energy is less than the rest mass of the particle.
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12-01-2015, 12:08 AM | #9 |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
Mostly, the .5c was not even close. Absent superscience (force fields, etc), means of producing space combat beams (antiparticle beams in atmosphere are pure superscience) require a charge neutralizer that adds quite a lot of noise to the beam, and the only way to reduce that is running the beam at ridiculous particle energies.
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12-02-2015, 03:08 PM | #10 |
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Re: Do Antiparticle Beams Inflict Rad Damage?
I think the OPs question is more about 'does the description or the chart need fixing'. I don't think he cares about whether anti-particle beams are do-able or how many impossible things need to be swallowed before it can be done. I certainly don't.
So would an anti-particle beam be likely to produce surge and rad effects? Are those effects that we expect from an anti-matter explosion? Looking at the micro-AM warheads - it is. Why the beam would be crushing and not burning - you may need to ask the author about that.
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