Rules Only: Book 5 clarification needed.

[mike wightman]

Thank you for the subscript lesson.

You are still using the wrong equations

E=pc for massless particles, E=mc² only for particles at rest (due to observer and object being in the same reference frame).
What is really going on is:

E²=m²c⁴ + p²c²

A negative mass plugged into this formula will always give positive energy. Where it gets interesting is with imaginary mass, plug that in and you get negative energy (possibly, it depends on the momentum p)

 

[aramis]

A negative mass plugged into this formula will always give positive energy. Where it gets interesting is with imaginary mass, plug that in and you get negative energy (possibly, it depends on the momentum p)

Negative mass is what the physicists are expecting.
I've yet to hear one with credentials talk about imaginary mass.

The thing is, physics equations are the approximation of reality; the actual reality need not oblige itself to match.

One of the fun things in the 70's was the claims that antimatter was impossible in nature... until bananas were found to generate positrons. Thanks to Potassium 40.

 

[mike wightman]

Talk to them about the Higgs field and you will find imaginary mass is discussed...

 

[bookwyrm]

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Beaker was always given the hard work with no recognition of his efforts, and he never gave up on the research that needed to be done, even when it was obviously dangerous. One of my all time favorite characters.

 

[aramis]

Talk to them about the Higgs field and you will find imaginary mass is discussed...

Raises issues: What is the anti-higgs going to do?

 

[mike wightman]

There is no anti-Higgs boson nor can there be, it has no charges of any type, electric or colour. Bit more to it than that but that's the simple explanation. You can consider it its own antiparticle just like the photon.

 

[Carlobrand]

Ooh, antiphotons, in an alien universe where space is white and the stars shine black, and Azathoth ... oop, wrong game.

 

[mike wightman]

Particles with no electric charge have no particle/antiparticle nature in the way an electron and a positron do.

The W boson that has a role in weak interaction has two types that are the antiparticle of each other the W⁺ and the W^-. the Z boson is neutral and so has no antiparticle or is its own antiparticle depending on what you want.

 

[whulorigan]

Particles with no electric charge have no particle/antiparticle nature in the way an electron and a positron do.

You want to specify that no fundamental particles without an electric charge have a particle/antiparticle nature. Obviously there are antineutrons and anti-pi-neutral mesons, for example.

I know you know what you meant, but I mention it for the sake of the discussion.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Ooh, antiphotons, in an alien universe where space is white and the stars shine black, and Azathoth ... oop, wrong game.

"We're sorry, Your Stars Are Wrong. The eldrich abomination you are trying to reach is not available at this time Please check your non-Eucldian xeno-astrology and try again.'

 

[atpollard]

This WAS a topic on CT: BOOK 5 and "backup systems".
Some Topic Drift is NORMAL.
THIS TOPIC long ago "Jumped the Shark"!

 

[kaladorn]

Oh sorry. Backup systems come from Adventure 5: Trillion Credit Squadron. In the rules and rulings section. Basically drives, computers, and screens can have backups that come into operation if the primary gets damaged. The rules say they don't consume energy or fuel but don't cover crew requirements.

In MegaTraveller, you'd have to pay for the backups, but most of the time it is computers that you have backups for. Backup screens might be daft because it means you could have had a better screen in the first place! And M-drives eat a lot of space. If you want jump drives, a HG version probably only takes in a few % of your tonnage so that's more feasible, but again you could be getting one longer reaching one.

 

[Carlobrand]

"We're sorry, Your Stars Are Wrong. The eldrich abomination you are trying to reach is not available at this time Please check your non-Eucldian xeno-astrology and try again.'

Dammit, message machine again!

 

[kilemall]

Dammit, message machine again!

Eldritch and glitch rhyme. Coincidence? No such thing as an eldritch coincidence.

After all there are few things are inherently evil, assert domination, tortures souls and invokes prayers and curses like a help line that doesn’t answer.

 

[bookwyrm]

Sydites, being a player character race in Traveller, and which could also be played in CT, in part of their write up (in GtD), have a spare jump 1 drive in some of their larger navy star ships. I never really had the interest to write one up to see how it would look, but after reading so many interesting posts in this thread...

But more realistically, I would think that a ship that would need these back up systems would be very specialized for a specific role and extremely expensive to build, and not used frivolously. Just the space needed alone, at least to me, would dictate using a 1k minimum hull.

 

[casquilho]

Sydites, being a player character race in Traveller, and which could also be played in CT, in part of their write up (in GtD), have a spare jump 1 drive in some of their larger navy star ships. I never really had the interest to write one up to see how it would look, but after reading so many interesting posts in this thread...

But more realistically, I would think that a ship that would need these back up systems would be very specialized for a specific role and extremely expensive to build, and not used frivolously. Just the space needed alone, at least to me, would dictate using a 1k minimum hull.

Great attempt to yank the thread back on topic and resist the Eldrich Gravitational Pull.

 

[bookwyrm]

Great attempt to yank the thread back on topic and resist the Eldrich Gravitational Pull.

Since my resisting the Eldrichs Gravitational Pull destroyed the GP, what would the Eldrich use as a back up system to get the thread back off topic? Does the Eldrich have a back up system or even need one? Wouldn't having a back up system take up enough space (with ability requirements) to make the main Gravitational Pull less effective?

 

[Grav_Moped]

Wouldn't having a back up system take up enough space (with ability requirements) to make the main Gravitational Pull less effective?

It takes up more than enough space, but not space as we know it.

Trust me, it's better we don't even try to think about that kind of space. *twitch* Makes Jumpspace seem normal. *twitch*