From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 13:53:37 MDT
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Michael M. Butler wrote:
> Are the accelerators or galleries to be configured in such a way that any
> breach of vacuum anywhere in the rig creates its own plasma valve (that
> sounds tricky)? Or what?
No doubt. My read of it is that they intend to be able to create
anywhere in the accelerator a plasma capable of capturing any
air leak. Now I have a minor problem with this (in that if I
have my physics right) plasmas are positively charged (largely
ionized gas) while normal matter is somewhat negatively charged
(electrons on the outside of the atoms). So on thinking about
this a bit further I question whether one gets a "repulsive"
force field or may instead get an "annihilation" force field
(ions stealing electrons from neutral atoms).
Now that is fine for an accelerator but doesn't have the
"Star Trek" requirements that I had in mind as being
particularly cool. Stealing all of the electrons from the
surface of a human body is probably not healthy. So this
concept may still need a bit of work.
Robert
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