Phaser Physics

[modderbox]

Regarding the exact method of how phasers work, Does anyone know?

[Moved from VOY to Star Trek Tech - Puck]

[webtaz99]

I have long sought an explanantion for this that wasn't the purest techno-babble. Most people who try to explain it don't know enough about physics to keep from contradicting existing knowledge.

[webtaz99]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Unimatrix 666]

Here you go: http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Phaser
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Star_Trek
This should help you find your answer.

[webtaz99]

^ Same ole' technobabble.

"Phased Energy" - bah! "Nadion particles" - humbug!

[beautifulfleetcommander]

i would agree with webtaz99

[Sevensquare]

Are you asking about how to make a gun? Stay clear of the NYPD. I think most of it(maybe 80%) is the carrier and focus technologies. One must have a voluble medium to carry what it's going to do. It must have a good focus so the medium goes out as a beam. This medium is something else beside laser light, or laser light something else. HUH?

[Sevensquare]

[5thhouse]

Nadions are a class of near-zero rest mass subspace particle radiation (the other types of subspace radiation are hyperonic, tetryon, amnion, metreon, verteron and SEM) produced when an exotic crystal called fushigi-no-umi (or boronite) becomes energized by a plasmaic or electric field. These particles are electrically neutral and composed of two positively charged and two negatively charged elemental Geheiminis particles, which have found extended application within the Yuufusion Imperium. Most nadions are harmless and largely non-interactive particles produced as a side effect of various technologies or natural processes. They usually fall in to three basic categories: slow, regular, and rapid.

Nadions with a phase variance less than 0.00001 relative to normal matter are called slow nadions are often found as side effects of transporters and other matter-energy transfer devices. They do not interact in any appreciable way with any kind of periodic matter and are usually not detected unless specifically scanned for.

Nadions with a phase variance between 0.0009 and 0.009 are regular nadions, or natural nadions. They are usually found in nature as a side effect of subspace anomalies. Sometimes these nadions will interact moderately with matter, exciting the occasional electron to higher energy states for a short period of time.

Rapid nadions, however, are only produced by the artificial excitation of fushigi-no-umi by plasma or electricity. Their phase variances can range as high as 0.09 and have the exotic effect of interfering with the Strong Nuclear Force within atomic nuclei. This effect, if intense enough, will cause atoms to split. Also, at such extreme variances, these particles will begin to alter the phasic state of the matter they interact with, "dragging" it out of frequency sync with the rest of the universe in an event commonly called "vaporization" or "domain transition. This effect applies to both the matter and energy released in the fissile effect, conveniently shunting dangerous radiation out of the surrounding environment.

There are another class of nadions, recently discovered by scientists of the Federation, dubbed Very Rapid Nadions with phase variances as high as 0.9. Like the rapid nadions, these particles interfere with the Strong Nuclear Force within atomic nuclei, but so much so that they actually inhibit the action of gluons altogether. This causes nucleonic protons and neutrons to split as well into free floating quarks, which are quickly translated outside of the normal space-time continuum.

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