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Hevymetal
POT Corp
#21 - 2013-07-21 17:12:39 UTC
I though (insert unit here) of antimatter took out (insert same unit here) of matter. So if we use a 1/1 ratio it would only take out a small cars worth of matter.
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#22 - 2013-07-21 17:18:33 UTC
Hevymetal wrote:
I though (insert unit here) of antimatter took out (insert same unit here) of matter. So if we use a 1/1 ratio it would only take out a small cars worth of matter.



Plug that car's worth of matter into e=mc2 and then duck and cover.



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Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#23 - 2013-07-21 17:19:59 UTC
Hevymetal wrote:
I though (insert unit here) of antimatter took out (insert same unit here) of matter. So if we use a 1/1 ratio it would only take out a small cars worth of matter.



yes and no.

It annihilates the matter. Converting both to a substantial quantity of energy.

1 gram would create an explosion of approximately 42 kilotons.

Of course, the biggest problem you'd have is actually using all of that antimatter. what with the reaction tending to blow it away from the matter.

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Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#24 - 2013-07-21 17:20:43 UTC
Hevymetal wrote:
I though (insert unit here) of antimatter took out (insert same unit here) of matter. So if we use a 1/1 ratio it would only take out a small cars worth of matter.

true, but you DO have to worry abou cascades, because of the high amount of energy involved in a antimatter explosion, you could theoreticaly (if theiris enough matter involved) see outlying matter begin the early stages of both nuclear fission and fusion (depending on whether they are cold particles coming into contact with highly excited particles, or two highly excited aprticles connecting).

so theoretically a car-sized block of antimatter could take out much mroe than just a car-sized block fo matter, the car-sized matter would only be whats obliterated into energy, everything would be destroyed through secondary effects.
Anika Hansonn
Doomheim
#25 - 2013-07-21 18:19:42 UTC
Makes me wonder what would happen if you collide a black hole with a anti-black hole XD
Both the size of a car :P
Zaknussem
Everybody Loves Donuts
#26 - 2013-07-21 18:30:46 UTC
Well, since it's called Anti-matter, but doesn't seem to behave like Anti-matter should, shouldn't it be renamed to Doesn't-Matter?

But seriously, if you or anyone wants to argue about physics in EvE, there are PLENTY of bones to pick at.

# Like how the most viable lasers are the ones that are invisible to the naked eye, yet we have a veritable rainbow of lasers to pew-pew people with.

# Or how a simple sweep of the sky from currently available thermal imaging devices on Earth, can detect any spaceship in our solar system with a roughly 6-hour delay.

# Or how EvE space seems to be fluidic.

# Or how bacon is non-existant in New Eden.

# Or that the planets NEVER MOVE.

# Or that the sun in every system is 20 times brigher than it should be.
Icarus Able
Refuse.Resist
#27 - 2013-07-21 18:32:41 UTC
I Was There wrote:
I assumed EVE space was more like a big dust cloud. You can see lasers going through smoke. Our spaceships lose speed when MWD is cut. You cannot make EVE true to real physics.

Nope normal space. Its just the warp drive on a ship that causes friction which in turn causes the slowdown as your engines have to work against that friction.
Reese Armgo
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#28 - 2013-07-21 18:39:30 UTC
Zaknussem wrote:


# Like how the most viable lasers are the ones that are invisible to the naked eye, yet we have a veritable rainbow of lasers to pew-pew people with.



Always thought that were because of the extreme amount of Energy.
I mean, it does the same level of damage as Nuclear-Missiles and such.
Liam Inkuras
Furnace
#29 - 2013-07-21 18:50:48 UTC
Hi I'm Liam,

I like to shoot lead balls out of my musket.

Pew pew

I wear my goggles at night.

Any spelling/grammatical errors come complimentary with my typing on a phone
Feledain
Elmsfeuer
#30 - 2013-07-21 19:14:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Feledain
Reese Armgo wrote:
Zaknussem wrote:


# Like how the most viable lasers are the ones that are invisible to the naked eye, yet we have a veritable rainbow of lasers to pew-pew people with.



Always thought that were because of the extreme amount of Energy.
I mean, it does the same level of damage as Nuclear-Missiles and such.


We can see the lasers because of camera drones. Or does someone command huge spaceships by watching out of a window?
Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#31 - 2013-07-21 19:16:54 UTC
What bugs me more is that Lead and Nuclear are in the same damage category for projectile ammo.
So throwing is piece of lead at an enemy ship does the same damage as an atomic bomb? Shocked

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#32 - 2013-07-21 19:17:27 UTC
Anika Hansonn wrote:
Makes me wonder what would happen if you collide a black hole with a anti-black hole XD
Both the size of a car :P



Black holes have an infinite gravitational field. They are not infinitely dense, nor infinitely massive.

In other words, figure out how massive your black holes will be, and plug them into E=Mc^2

To figure out the mass, you can use this formula (r is the Schwarzschild Radius, or Event Horizon):
r=2MG/c^2

Assuming a car's about a 1.5m radius sphere, the Mass of that car sized black hole is about

10^27 kg (170 Earth Masses)

The energy released by annihilating twice that mass is about:

1.8*10^44 J

Or 4.3*10^28 Megatons of TNT equivalent.

For reference, the Gravitational binding energy of the earth is around:
2.4*10^32 J

So those two bodies annihilating each other release about 750 billion times as much energy as is needed to destroy the world in such a way that gravity never reforms it. It's also about the total amount of energy released in a typical Supernova.

It's a big boom. Physics will probably get weird in the center.

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Naradius
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#33 - 2013-07-21 19:19:34 UTC
Everybody knows EVE is submarines in space!

...also, posting in an EVE compared to irl thread. Roll

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Klandi
Consortium of stella Technologies
#34 - 2013-07-21 19:30:43 UTC
Zaknussem wrote:


# Or how bacon is non-existant in New Eden.



I NEED THE BACON!!!

I am aware of my own ignorance and have checked my emotional quotient - thanks for asking
Nariya Kentaya
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#35 - 2013-07-21 21:12:09 UTC
Zimmy Zeta wrote:
What bugs me more is that Lead and Nuclear are in the same damage category for projectile ammo.
So throwing is piece of lead at an enemy ship does the same damage as an atomic bomb? Shocked

yeah, they are the same.

gotta remember, nuclear weapons come in whatever yield you want, and to ensure its safe to shoot out of a ******* giant gun, the actual nuclear payload of a round is most likely fairly small, so YES, it would do comparative damage to a giant lead-slug of the same or similar size/design, especially when your dealing with shooting it in space.
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