[TrashMan]

Isn't matter just a different form of energy?

erm...well...not really...

energy is pretty much electrons and ions..heat...

matter is pretty much protons and neutrons and electrons..

[akenbosch]

and quarks...and a few other subatomic particles i forgot the names of.

but still, why block missles and not ships?

[jr2]

and mesons.. don't forget the mesons!

Oh, and IIRC, watch your shields when you collide, I think running into another ship just overloads them & they blink out for a sec in that quadrant...

[TrashMan]

Who ever said it makes sense ...but granted a collision with a massive object at great speeds does include a lot of kinetic energy....

[akenbosch]

gotta hate that bounce...

[Agent_Koopa]

Isn't matter just a different form of energy?

erm...well...not really...

energy is pretty much electrons and ions..heat...

matter is pretty much protons and neutrons and electrons..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence

[jr2]

Wowzers....

Einstein performed his calculations using the CGS measurement system (centimeters, grams, seconds, dynes, and ergs). His formula works just as well using today’s SI system (with E in joules, m in kg, and c in meters per second). Using SI units, E=mc2 is calculated as follows:

    E = (1 kg) × (299,792,458 m/s)2 = 89,875,517,873,681,764 J (≈90 × 1015 Joules)

Accordingly, one gram of mass — the mass of a U.S. dollar bill — is equivalent to the following amounts of energy:

    ≡ 89,875,517,873,681.764 J (≈90 terajoules), precisely by definition
    ≡ 24,965,421.631 578 267 777… kilowatt-hours (≈25 GW-hours)
    = 21,466,398,651,400.058 278 398 777 1090 calories (≈21 Tcal) [1]
    = 21.466 398 651 400 058 278 398 777 1090 kilotons of TNT-equivalent energy (≈21 kt) [1]
    = 85,185,554,537.701 118 960 880 666 4808 BTUs (≈85 billion BTUs) [1]

Any time energy is generated, the process can be evaluated from an E=mc2 perspective. For instance, the "Gadget"-style bomb used in the Trinity test and the bombing of Nagasaki had an explosive yield equivalent to 21 kt of TNT. About 1 kg of the approximately 6.15 kg of plutonium in each of these bombs fissioned into lighter elements totaling almost exactly one gram less, after cooling (the heat, light and radiation in this case carried the missing gram of mass).[2] This occurs because nuclear binding energy is released whenever elements with more than 62 nucleons fission.

[akenbosch]

 

my brain...its expanding too fast

*pop*

[Topgun]

What's VC obsession with tachyons?

[TrashMan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence

Ah yeas, mass can be converted to energy (AFAIK, not 100% of it) but that doesn't mean that mass is the same thing as energy - tehy have different properties, no?

[Bob-san]

We have had some small success with changing energy to mass... in near-lightspeed collisions, we have the ability to observe the formation of ultra-large elements from the debris of the collision. True, it lasts for about a nanosecond, but it still forms but then collapses.

[jr2]

E=mc²

Not E~mc²

[akenbosch]

that gives me an idea on how to educate the youngsters on HLP!

FSmath:

~k = ~shift K(10)

[jr2]

Hmm.  Accurate.

EDIT:  Actually, isn't it ~K(10)=~+Shift+K?

[akenbosch]

i dunno, lemme check the code.

~k = 100000000 (needs factchecking, i cant read code that well) damage

[jr2]

I thought ~K was less than ~ShiftK

[akenbosch]

shift-k always does excactly 10 percent damage. it depends on how many hits the ships has. example: a sathanas is just dented, a gigas is hardly scratched.

[General Battuta]

And  energy is mass.

If you know relativity, you know that mass is just frozen energy.

They are one and the same.

[TrashMan]

Not REALLY...mass can be converted to energy but that doesn't mean it's the same...mass has completely different properties.

[AlphaOne]

Yo science dudes give it a rest my head ghas grown by 3 sizes just by reading some of your posts...! Lets get back to the posibilaty of blowing stuff up big time ! In other words someone build me  a god damn freaking beam cannon for......err........personal usage such as gardening home wreck....building....building streets carving up mountains for the hell of it.....sculpting my face on the side of everest ina gigantic 100x100 m fabulous portrait so that people can say i'm an alien or the big man himself!