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Antimatter In Lightning
AMESN writes "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched last year, detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow got reversed."
The decay of positrons in the largescale discharge of electronic particles may very well lead to gamma ray emissions, however it is crucial to understand the energy output required to reverse the polarity of the discharge so that we can reproduce the phenomenon in a controlled laboratory.
Or else the Romulans will destroy the Federation.
Reverse the polarity? Good god, next you'll be wanting to cross the streams.
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The LHC was obsolete before it was even constructed.
It never stood a chance.
I thought it's purpose was eating baguettes.
What the fuck? You just graduate from the Academy?
Modulating the shields leaves you vulnerable to phased weapon attacks.
"The only way" is to reorient the tractor beam vectors to generate a harmonic subspace bubble around the vessel.
Fucking amateur.
You're all off base.The explanaion is much simpler.
Did anybody shout "SHAZAM!" nearby?
Did you stumble into this forum by mistake? Come back when you have some baseless conjecture or a conspiracy theory.
>Remember: In science, NEVER be arrogant, or too convinced of your theories.
Wow, you haven;t been around academics much have you?
I recall an old joke:
"How many PHDs does it take to change a light bulb?
One to unscrew it, one to pull the chair from underneath him"
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Just to steer the conversation back on topic, your harmonic subspace bubble isn't going to do jack to protect you from the gamma-ray discharge from an antimatter/matter conversion on it's perimeter. In fact it might cause a toroid-effect and trap the gamma-rays inside your shields, interfere with your sensors and might even take some crucial subsystems offline.
Only a combined strategy of cryptographic spread-spectrum modulation of shields combined with aggressive targetted tractor beam vectoring can keep you safe from localized radiation effects and energy weapons. You really need to keep abreast of the technology in these matters or you could leave yourself, your crew, and very valuable data and equipment at risk.
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Anyone who watches Star Trek knows that any time you want to solve technical problems or achieve new developments, all you need to do is reverse the polarity or invert the phase.
You forgot to reroute through the main deflector.
Not to mention a goddamn car analogy.
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