Re: [SG, DS] Combat Engineers

On 18-Jun-02 at 10:37, steve@pugh.net (steve@pugh.net) wrote:
> On 18 Jun 2002 at 9:55, Flak Magnet wrote:
> 
> > One could PSB an exotic explosive or combination of materials that,
> > when exploded or exposed to explosive forces a tiny amount of
> > anti-matter is "created" (reality tearing explosives,
> > explosion-powered field generators that are consumed in the
> > explosion).
> > 
> > It's just an idea, don't go sharp-shooting it.
> 
> Ah, but that's the fun bit...
> 
> The energy needed to 'create' the anti-matter has to be greater than 
> the energy contained within the anti-matter. (Conservation of Energy, 
> etc.) The energy released in the matter/anti-matter explosion is 
> twice the energy contained in the anti-matter. (E=mc^2, etc.) So the 
> energy stored in this mine when it's just sitting there is at least 
> half the energy of the resulting explosion.

That's the beauty of this.  The energy is already there in the
form of matter.  If you flip one gram of matter to anti-matter
you have neither created nor destroyed energy or matter.  When
the anti-matter interacts with matter it goes boom.  Matter 
turned into energy, nothing created or lost.

It's just another name for direct matter to energy conversion.