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From: ph@wucec2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Stardates, Phasers, and Photon Torp
Message-ID: <1477@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 22:34:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 22:34:20 1986
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References: <9396@ritcv.UUCP> <-1273950@xenixsp>
Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis, Engineering School
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In article <-1273950@xenixsp> root@xenixsp writes:
>>	In *The Making of Star Trek* photon torps are described as ball of  
>>matter and antimatter held in and separated by a force field until impact
>>with the target.  In the movies the force field was replaced by a metallic 
>>shell like the one used for Spocks body.
>^^^^^ That sounds a little fishy..... Metallic insulation of a matter/antimatter
>interface? seems like that might go boom, or is there a metal that is netural
>to antimatter?

	    What I assumed was that the force field containing the
	antimatter was in turn contained in the metal shell.  Was that
	so hard?
						--pH
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