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Post by darkelf2x1 on Aug 25, 2005 9:49:57 GMT -5
how does the positron rifle prevent the stream of positrons from reacting with electrons as soon as the positrons leave the containment field ( as to how that operates i've read that it is a magnetic containment field)
a positron based weapon fired on earth is like putting a grenade launcher up against the wall and pulling the trigger - (i forgot the author's name)
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Post by PaladinBlue on Aug 26, 2005 9:03:24 GMT -5
I'm assuming that the positron rifle has a special fiber inside its barrel that restricts the reaction inside of that and then creates a shell around the positrons that keeps them from reacting to outside particles once it leaves the barrel.
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Post by Jeditrooper on Aug 26, 2005 15:41:37 GMT -5
That's not going to work. Positrons are anti-matter, and therefore could only be contained useing a electormatic energy field. As for leaving the barrel, the field couldn't be projected as such to keep the positrons in a beam like the rifle fired, and from reacting with the matter in the air. Hence, the rifle in Eva is nothing but a bunch of Tenchobabble.
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Post by PaladinBlue on Aug 26, 2005 15:49:51 GMT -5
I stole that from Gundam's explanation of Minovsky Particles anyway. Besides, it's a mecha show, it isn't supposed to be completely realistic.
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Post by Jeditrooper on Aug 26, 2005 15:52:21 GMT -5
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Post by darkelf2x1 on Aug 26, 2005 21:20:40 GMT -5
the only weapon system i can come up with remotely related to this would be the covenant plasma toredo
(its essentially a ball of plasma which is shaped and guided using a magnetic coil)
so it has a similar problem that the positronic weapon has (when covenant ship borne plasma weapons are fired the plasma dissipates without the magnetic coil to shape and control its guidance to target)
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Post by Nephthys on Aug 30, 2005 9:07:16 GMT -5
This is just one of several areas where truly technical minded people can dissect flaws with Eva, just as most science fiction can be ripped to shreds for technical accuracy. I suppose the writers of Eva just thought it sounded like a neat idea so they threw it in there.
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Post by darkelf2x1 on Aug 30, 2005 19:08:57 GMT -5
it would make sense if they were able to somehow extend a containment field to keep the positrons in a beam...
or say if they did something like gundam seed where they fire a positron beam in order to clear a path in the atmosphere via the annhilation of antimatter and matter
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