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From: dwm@pur-ee.UUCP (Meeks)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: re: destruct and proto-matter
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Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 15:01:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 15:01:35 1984
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>> 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 ...