Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!dwm From: dwm@pur-ee.UUCP (Meeks) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: re: destruct and proto-matter Message-ID: <2046@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 15:01:35 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-ee.2046 Posted: Wed Aug 15 15:01:35 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:18:49 EDT Expires: Sun, 9-Sep-84 01:00:00 EDT Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 19 >> Why couldn't the Enterprise have exploded on the far side of the planet >> and simply not have lit up the sky because the planet shadowed the effect? > From: jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) >No reason at all, actually. That's not the problem, though. When the anti-mat >in the ship's engines was released due to the self-destruct, it's contact wit >near-by matter should have created an explosion that would have taken out the >entire planet. >Hmmm, something else just occurred to me. If the Genesis-created planet aged a >self-destructed because of the use of protomatter, why didn't the Genesis-crea >ed sun? What effect would proto-matter have on anti-matter? Could the genesis effect have something to do with the anti-matter/matter explosions being contained? Perhaps, since the proto-matter was causing matter to break down, it could also break down anti-matter ( into something else? ) and buffer the effect. What is proto-matter(sp)? Scotty beam me up ...