Originally posted by hirch duckfinder:
what happens when you open a door into jump space and something or someone drops out ???
anyone got an opinion , or even better a canonical explaination of what would have happened if i did ???
thanks in advance .
hirch .
Really Quite simple... Provided they neither come within 30 cm of the grey wall which defined the end of normal space within the jump bubble, nor stare at the undultions and hints of color, nothing.
Prolonged exposure within 30 cm of the wall? going to bend the mind. Part of it is exposure to radiation form the hull grid, part is that radiation interacting wiht particles whcih can't exist fully inside the bubble, but only in that outer 30 cm...
If you push a stick 3m long so that 1m is past the grey, when you pull it back, it will have a nearly perfectly smooth far end and be a 2m pole... If you stick your hand out the grey wall, your hand dissassociates, as it's no longer able to maintain nuclear cohesion. In rare cases, it may be precipitated back to N-space along the route... usually in chunks under 50grams... more normally bits in the 1-2 g range.
If the door, however, is more than 2m across, the bubble now is compromised, and that grey wall will push in.... and at about 2.01m, that bubble fills all bout the outter 1m shell of the ship. No misjump (IMTU, NOTHING will cause a misjump once the transition occurs, but a grid failure may result in destruction and arrival on-time, on-target.... as a hollow shell. Or in multiple parts, if cut carefully...).
Effectively, J-space hates normal matter, so anything not in a J-bubble gets nearly instantly precipitated out. It doesn't matter if it was part of something larger or not, J-space takes what it can grab, and hucks it back to N-space nearly instantly.
So, IMTU, your sashed non-firend would not leave a body... but might leave a bunch of smatters which someone in N-space might find... as J-space fillets him like japanese ginger.