04-24-2012, 09:32 PM | #71 | |
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: The plutonium rich regions of Washington State
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Re: Wormholes in Space
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In any event, "normal stuff with negative mass" would have several unpleasant properties. Normally, an electric field will do work on charged particles by moving them in the direction of the force the field applies. With negative mass, the particle will move opposite the force and will thus do work on the field. The field will gain energy while the negative mass particle speeds up (gaining negative kinetic energy, if you will). This means that any light (which is an electromagnetic field) will be amplified in a very short distance to immensely destructive intensities while simultaneously evaporating the negative mass stuff into a plasma. This cascade of light amplification will be triggered even by quantum fluctuations of the vacuum, so even keeping it in complete darkness will not save you. Luke |
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04-24-2012, 09:44 PM | #72 | |
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Re: Wormholes in Space
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That stuff is precisely as cool as it is annoying. I think the technical term is "starkly astounding" destructive intensities though : ) |
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04-24-2012, 09:44 PM | #73 |
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Re: Wormholes in Space
I think a good uncomplicated way to resolve it is to say that the wormhole sucks.
By which I mean, when the wormhole opens it creates a gravity well that actively draws things into it. So you don't fly through the wormhole so much as you brace yourself and get pulled in. Such a gravity well would be a bad thing to have on a planet surface as it would probably turn the planet inside out. I don't have any theoretical physics to back this up, I just think it would work as a game world mechanic. This assumes a wormhole that is typically closed and opened by some trigger. Either it opens every five hours and forty-three minutes, or you hit it with a plasma bolt and it opens for you. Or they could just have two always open "one way" wormholes that have permanent gravity wells. Could also create some interesting "point of no return" scenarios if they open the wormhole and suddenly decide they don't want to go through it. IE they see the enemy fleet on the other side, but the gravity well already has them. |
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